[steffan]

I think they’re millions of galaxies, which is even more amazing

[itishappy]

The YouTube link [1] states that most of these are in fact stars. The gas from the nebula obscures the distant galaxies we're used to seeing.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1__KBHIo_xs

[steffan]

Thanks for the correction. I was thinking of images similar to the Hubble Deep Field in which there are an unimaginable number of galaxies.