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I had expected something better than the bulk of pictures from Hubble. It honestly just looks like a picture captured by Hubble.

Edit: clearly, I was wrong

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The scale is much, much different. This is a fraction of the space Hubble photographed. This is a tiny bit of space shown with the clarity that Hubble had for areas far bigger

Thanks for the explanation. I was clearly wrong! Honestly, not sure what "better" I had expected.

I wouldn't say you're wrong. It does look very similar to a Hubble deep field image because there isn't much of a difference visually between the different scales.

That's kind of the definition of fractal. You look at 1/100 the area, but at 100 times the magnification, and it looks the same.

The universe isn't infinite, so this wouldn't scale forever, but we probably have a ways to go before we need to worry about that.

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