Sweat The Small Stuff: On Details and Why They Matter

This is what a bunch of galaxies a few billion light-years away looks like from one of the best telescopes on the planet (i.e., kind of crappy)

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Sweat The Small Stuff: 1: Worth a Thousand Words 

Louis Abramson is an ex-New Yorker living in Los Angeles where he studies astrophysics at the University of Chicago.  He appreciates that things can get complicated.