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podcasts or by visiting speeches dot BYU.edu slash podcasts. Thank you President President Reese, for that introduction.

I appreciate our friendship and many fun memories over the years.

My young friends and some of those not so young, thank you

for being here. You are the reason I love working at BYU. Okay I want you to hold out your hand and look at the tip of your finger and imagine a single

grain of sand.

Hold it at arm's length and imagine. of the

brain

arm's length and imagine the tiny patch of sky

that would be covered by that grain of sand.

In 1995, astronomers pointed the Hubble telescope at a dark patch of sky about that size,

where nothing was visible.

But by exposing the image for more than 100 hours, objects so far

away that they are trillions of times too faint to be seen with your eyes were revealed for the first time.

There are over 3,000 galaxies in that small patch of sky. Each of those galaxies contains billions of stars.

In 2012, a similar image was created for a different patch of sky by combining multiple Hubble images.

Like the original deep-filled image, thousands of new galaxies were discovered.

Whatever tiny, tiny patch of sky we point a powerful

enough telescope at, we see thousands of galaxies far away. This latest deep-filled image from the James Webb Space Telescope

shows some galaxies so far away that it took more than 13 billion years for the light to reach us.

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