That would make them harder to spot amid the clutter of foreground stars in our galaxy, the team says. (newscientist.com)
The field is so small that only a few foreground stars in the Milky Way lie within it; thus, almost all of the 3,000 objects in the image are galaxies, some of which are among the youngest and most distant known. (sciencedaily.com)
It is impossible to get a good photograph of the entire cluster because the galaxies are faint objects scattered across 15 degrees of the sky, and a large angle photograph would be swamped by thousands of foreground stars in our own galaxy. (atlasoftheuniverse.com)