We had a discussion a few days ago, and I mentioned "cosmic horror". Then I saw this in the news, and found the zoomable photo. Every dot is a galaxy, and there is countless of them.
Every dot in this particular image is not a galaxy. Most of them are stars, although the oblong shape the "hand" is reaching for is galaxy ESO 257-19, and there are loads more galaxies visible here and there.
The "hand" is relatively close by at ~1300 light-years. For reference, this is about as far away as the famous Orion Nebula. The photos we've seen, like the Hubble Ultra-Deep Field[0], where practically every shape is a galaxy, are focused on much smaller "empty" patches of sky, where most of what's visible is billions of light-years away.
