Jul 11, 2007 7:05 AM

Telescope as Microscope: the Hubble Ultra Deep Field Image

That the cosmos is vast beyond comprehension is something we all know: our planet orbits one of a hundred billion stars in the Milky Way galaxy, which itself is just one of another hundred billion galaxies. The trick is to conceive of this vastness in terms of possibility and grandeur. To do this, Anthony Doerr, […]

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