Ciro Santilli @cirosantilli 40

Ciro Santilli's answer to How credible is Nick Lucid, of YouTube's "The Science Asylum"? on Quora.

It is not possible to see stars outside of the Milky Way by naked eye.

With telescopes however, it is possible. www.quora.com/Can-we-distinguish-individual-stars-in-other-galaxies-or-would-it-be-equivalent-to-say-we-know-there-are-other-forests-of-stars-galaxies-but-we-cant-tell-the-individual-trees-stars-What-is-the-farthest-individual/answer/Jerzy-Micha%C5%82-Pawlak contains an amazing answer that mentions two special cases of the furthest ones:

But what we can definitely see are globular clusters of galaxies. E.g. the article en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Messier_87 basically gauges the size of galaxies by the number of globular clusters that they contain.

Had hardware acceleration in mind from the very start, and for a long time that has meant GPU acceleration.

He's a bit overly obsessed with polynomials for the taste of modern maths, but it's still fun.