I could not finish our day about the World Golf Village without sharing about their IMAX presentation on the Hubble telescope. They have a number of films showing, yet I was sooooo glad we could see the Hubble one. The pictures were spectacular and the distances involved were mind boogling -- like in trillions of light years (a light year is 5,878,630,000,000 - about 6 trillion miles). An example is our own galaxy the Milky Way. They say that it has 400 billion stars and is 100,000 light years in diameter.
According the pictures the Hubble has taken they estimate there are hundreds of billions of galaxies in the universe.
Launced in 1990 by a space shuttle. According to the Hubble website
http://www.hubblesite.org/ the Hubble has recorded over 700,000 images. According to these pictures they have estimated there are 125 billion galaxies in the universe. Here is a picture of Saturn.
And, the stars.
And, nebula (an interstellar cloud of dist, hydrogen gas, helium gas and plasma_
One thing that you can find in a nebula is the birthing of a star. Amazing.
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