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Take any single portion of this image and you'll find hundreds and hundreds of galaxies. Each hosting hundreds of millions to hundreds of *billions* of stars. Countless, unknowable planets—but on the basis of what we see in the Milky Way, probably hundreds of billions to trillions of planets.

I have no idea how far away this galaxy is, nor how big it is. (That information is obtainable, I just don't have it.) But more than anything, I wonder if there are people there, looking back.

Anyway, here's the full-size image, together with information as to the program under which it was collected. esawebb.org/images/potm2... Credit: ESA/Webb/NASA/CSA/G. Gozaliasl/A. Koekemoer/M. Franco/The COSMOS-Web team

this image also contains multiple gravity lenses, where a supermassive black hole or quasar in the foreground distorts the light from more distant sources, in some cases magnifying to the point of perception galaxies that would otherwise be impossible to see.