Our limited mind cannot comprehend the vastness of what we can see only with high magnification telescopes. The Creator is awesome.
The picture is of Omega Centauri, a globular cluster (or perhaps dwarf galaxy) in the southern sky. It contains perhaps ten million stars, about 17,000 light-years from Earth. It was identified by Edmond Halley, of comet fame, in 1677. New observations by the Hubble telescope suggest there may be a black hole at its center, 40,000 times as massive as our Sun.
If you lived under clear skies in Chile, or almost anywhere else in the southern hemisphere, Omega Centauri would loom as large as the Moon in the sky, a dim, fuzzy ball of stars.
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