Three local stars and a spiral galaxy against black space

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Only three local stars appear in this image, quartered by right-angled diffraction spikes. Everything besides them is a galaxy; floating like a swarm of microbes in a drop of water, and brought into view here not by a microscope, but by the Advanced Camera for Surveys on the Hubble Space Telescope.

Credits: ESA/Hubble & NASA and N. Grogin (STScI), Acknowledgement: Judy Schmidt