One of the more remarkable things that the Hubble Space Telescope has done is to take a composite picture of a tiny fraction of the night sky just below Orion. How tiny? The image covers one thirty-one-millionth of the nominal surface area of the great edgeless sphere through which we sail. But within this speck of black there is another constellation, less well-known than Orion, called Fornax. And within Fornax, the Hubble has managed to spot 10,000 galaxies, many never seen before, some dating from just 700 million years after the big bang (which is believed to have happened roughly 15 billion years ago).
The Hubble telescope has extended our notion of the Universe, yet that view, of nebulas and of supernovas, errant comets and