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_aky4··on Mystery of interstellar visitor 'Oumuamua gets trickier
Further we look into the void, further we see how vast it is in length of time and breadth of space. And in that void we're a tiny speck of dust on an already tiny speck of dust. For me, looking at zoomable deep space telescope imagery, it's a 50/50 proposition, either we have the only miracle of life in existence, or it's prolific.

Deepest visible light image of 10,000 galaxies - https://www.spacetelescope.org/images/heic0406a/zoomable/

NGC 1866 star cluster - https://www.spacetelescope.org/images/potw1847a/zoomable/

Runaway galaxy UGC 10214 with thousands of galaxies in backdrop - https://www.spacetelescope.org/images/heic0206a/zoomable/

Abell 2218, a rich glaxy cluster composed of thousands of galaxies - https://www.spacetelescope.org/images/heic0814a/zoomable/

Gordo ("The Fat One") - enormous galaxy cluster with mass of three million billion Suns - https://www.spacetelescope.org/images/potw1802a/zoomable/

Gallery of more of these at https://www.spacetelescope.org/images/archive/zoomable/ - follow a delightful thumbnail, then desperately seek the tiny buried zoomable links on subsequent pages.