Brandon Corbins Head Indianapolis Product & Technology Evangelist

The photo above is a picture Galaxies. GALAXIES! ENTIRE GALAXIES, each galaxy would host around 200 billion stars. Even if half the stars had planets around them - we would be talking about trillions and trillions of planets - of which life very easy could be supported. Sure makes you realize how minimal are little planet and its inhabitants are.

APOD: 2008 May 20 - The Perseus Cluster of Galaxies

Credit & Copyright: Jean-Charles Cuillandre (CFHT) & Giovanni Anselmi (Coelum Astronomia), Hawaiian Starlight

Explanation: Here is one of the largest objects that anyone will ever see on the sky. Each of these fuzzy blobs is a galaxy, together making up the Perseus Cluster, one of the closest clusters of galaxies. The cluster is seen through a foreground of faint stars in our own Milky Way Galaxy. Near the cluster center, roughly 250 million light-years away, is the cluster’s dominant galaxy NGC 1275, seen above as the large galaxy on the image left. A prodigious source of x-rays and radio emission, NGC 1275 accretes matter as gas and galaxies fall into it. The Perseus Cluster of Galaxies is part of the Pisces-Perseus supercluster spanning over 15 degrees and containing over 1,000 galaxies. At the distance of NGC 1275, this view covers about 7.5 million light-years.