... No species other than human can even comprehend what is going on, nor could any human just a millennium ago. ... Stars of many types and colors are visible in this Hubble Space Telescope close-up of a starfield in the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC). Over 10,000 stars are visible -- the brightest of which are giant stars. Were our Sun at the distance of these stars, about 170,000 light-years, it would hardly be discernable. POX 186: Not So Long Ago . ... NGC 1818: A Young Globular Cluster . ...