As one member of the Hickson Compact Groups, the Hickson 44 group shown in this picture in Leo is astounding. I had no idea that such clarity over such distance was possible. It's amazing to see the dust trails in the spirals and imagine what all would be possible with more powerful telescopes etc.The content of this, while amazing, isn't really what gets me though. It's the fact that even back in 1994 when technology wasn't as far-reaching as today we were able to see and acknowledge groups of galaxies to the extent that they were named and put into different groups. Hickson 44 is 100 million light-years away and we can capture images of it with this kind of clarity. I'm astounded. The idea itself is just mind-blowing to me.
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