Starship Asterisk*

Torn between thinking "UFO" should be included, and relieved that it was not! :roll: Of couse APOD is thoroghly professional, but it is likely true that some sporadic "lights in the sky" originating in the atmosphere are not identified. They're all UFOs until your path through t...

When it was released, I remember thinking it was a desperate bid to get past the embarrassing disaster. And brilliantly done: no one remembers now that Hubble was a worthless heap of scrap not long before this picture was taken.

I'm trying to get a sense of the scale of these structures, but my head hurts imagining how big they are. Are some or all of those other galaxies in the picture in the foreground?