Galaxies 

On this page are images I've taken of galaxies outside of our own Milky Way. These are some of the most distant objects that I'm capable of imaging and the distances involved are nothing short of incredible. Even the closest galaxy to the Milky Way, Andromeda, is around 2.5 MILLION light-years away. Many of the others on this page are in the range of 20-40 million light-years. And those are just the close ones. Trillions of others lie sprinkled throughout space in every direction we look and some of those can be seen in the background of my images. We tend to think of space as populated by stars throughout but, in actuality, space is mostly empty of ordinary matter. Galaxies are like tiny islands of matter in an immense ocean of nothingness. Some of the images can be misleading because they appear to show galaxies surrounded by a sea of stars. In reality, the surrounding stars lie very close to us in our own Milky Way Galaxy and we are looking through them when we view the distant galaxies. 

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