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To: Paul A who wrote (6949)	1/11/1999 5:33:00 PM
From: Don Pueblo	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 90042

Just to keep everything in perspective... the Hubble telescope was set up some time back to look "between" some stars. The idea was, the stars in our galaxy (that surround our planet) make light, which obscure stuff that is in the same area but farther away. So they set it up to look at a tiny space that didn't have a lot of stars around it, to see if there were any galaxies there. (A galaxy, as we all know, is composed of billions and billions of stars like our sun. Our galaxy is called the "Milky Way".) Assuming that there might be some galaxies in this little space that the telescope was focused on, the telescope saw: oposite.stsci.edu