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July 28, 1996
Huck Finn's New Sky View
The HDF Team
"We had the sky up there, all speckled with stars, and we used to lay
on our backs and look up at them, and discuss about whether they was
made or only just happened."
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn)
Even the faintest stars Huck and Jim could see as their raft drifted
down the Mississippi were in our own Galaxy.
The faintest objects astronomers can see today are
the distant galaxies --
entire systems of stars comparable to our own Milky Way,
which fill the Universe.
Despite the advances, the sense of wonder so simply
expressed in Huck's musing is still the same.
Tomorrow's picture: A Dust Jet From Hale-Bopp
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