New Space Photo Reveals 'Nothing'

Image of the Deep 3 'empty' field observed with the telescope at La Silla. The image is the combination of 714 frames for a total exposure time of 64.5 hours covering a total area larger than one square degree. (Image credit: ESO)

Astronomers snapped a picture of nothing, and lo-and-behold what they got was, well, pretty much nothing.

The European Southern Observatory (ESO) released a 300-million-pixel image that covers an empty region of the sky about five times the size of the full Moon.

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Sara Goudarzi is a Brooklyn writer and poet and covers all that piques her curiosity, from cosmology to climate change to the intersection of art and science. Sara holds an M.A. from New York University, Arthur L. Carter Journalism Institute, and an M.S. from Rutgers University. She teaches writing at NYU and is at work on a first novel in which literature is garnished with science.