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Can you elaborate why you found those interesting?

Mainly because most of the pictures I usually see of the galaxies in space, they appear as practically identical dots. Never before I've seen this level of detail and the variety of shapes. Each of these galaxies have billions of stars and planets and they are billions of such galaxies. I know we have read these numbers before but just seeing them "up-close" like this in such a small section just makes it that much more real.

Just imagine how much more vivid they would appear once the technology progresses ever further.

> Mainly because most of the pictures I usually see of the galaxies in space, they appear as practically identical dots. Never before I've seen this level of detail and the variety of shapes.

Do you mean these specific galaxies? If not, you can see many galaxies in amazing detail with very modest equipment. If you know what you're looking for you can faintly see Andromeda with the naked eye.

Terrible light pollution where I stay - hopefully one day I'll be able to retire to a place more conducive to stargazing.

Same where I am. If you have a dSLR even a 15 second exposure will show you Andromeda with light pollution. Time consuming hobby though :)

Haven't seen the Deep Hubble Field?

I think I did see one of them and it was pretty amazing but James Webb images are on a new level. Also, I did know Hubble but didn't know the name Hubble Deep Field - thanks for mentioning that because I searched for it and found this:

https://esahubble.org/images/?search=%22Deep+Field%22

There are images on that link that I haven't seen before and the level of detail is pretty amazing too.

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