Thread: Hubble Ultra Deep Field: Just HOW big our universe really is!

And those photos are only a tiny tip of a tiny tip. Makes one feel like Hubble himself when he first made the connection of just how large large is. It's shown that many things can grow in relation to the size of it's environment and that seems to include galaxies. I'm sure that on other deep space photos we will find even bigger.

Originally Posted by mugaliens

Well, 8x the stars of the Milky Way doesn't seem like much of a stretch. "Typical galaxies range from dwarfs with as few as ten million (107) stars,[3] up to giants with a hundred trillion (1E14) stars." - Source The Milky Way contains between 200 and 400 Billion stars, so the "giant" galaxies contain approximately 333 times as many stars as the Milky Way.

That's quite a bit more times that "8," so I'm thinking whoever penned the caption on that photograph wasn't as well versed in astrophysics as he though he was.

I think that is a very young galaxy, that formed shortly after the big bang. Current giant galaxies supposedly formed through collisions with other galaxies, and very young galaxies would not have had time to do that.