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If coding was my primary job duty, sure, I could see this kind of art being pretty relevant. But even though I have an IT background, and some coding-related books sitting around, working at a large, modern telescope in a major observatory complex, my geekdom is more about space science, so the art on the walls (and my laptop's wallpaper) tends to be more along the lines of either stuff out in space, or stuff that looks at stuff out in space. For example, my current wallpaper.

Anyone with a good telescope available?!

Depends what you consider "good." If you're thinking of something in the $199-$15,999 price range, with an aperture of 4-16 inches (which should be plenty for just looking at a nearby supernova, then the 16" Meade or one of the 14" Celestrons where I stargaze should work.

If, on the other hand, you're thinking more in the $3,000,000-$400,000,000 range, then I'd have to schlep all the way up to the general vicinity of work.

But I'm relatively certain that even folks around work would be interested in looking at it. I think it'd be a Type II supernova, but I could ask if the Type Ia collaboration I'm in could look at it too... but unfortunately since it's pretty much up during the day this time of year, and "close to" the Sun in the sky, it'd be a hard target.

Well, Timothy does when he recycles them for his Slashbacks. But otherwise, no. If you feel like it, you can email their "hotline" at daddypants@slashdot.org, which is supposedly to the editor on duty. I used to do that, occasionally they would fix errors, but mostly they ignored them, or Malda would respond with some snarky comment. If you do, you might suggest they link to the actual press release, with several illustrations, rather than the dumbed down and truncated USA Today version.

... and here's the actual press release for the discovery in case you want some more meat than given by the simplified USA Today article.

Yes, indeed.

And M82 is truly a bad example of what the Hubble can really do.

Why?

Because you can get a picture of M82 from the ground just as well
as the Hubble does. See here for example.

The true advantage of the Hubble can be realized when you are looking at
a smaller object, like V838 Mon or the finer details of the Helix Nebula.

...when you get to see a great close-up of Uranus!

The press release makes no mention of the number of galaxies in the cluster that was detected. A footnote mentioned that a cluster of galaxies was composed of at least 50 galaxies, but that was the only number of galaxies mentioned. The press release did state that some 30,000 objects were captured in the photograph, but made no mention of what those objects were. The article on StartBulletin.com is the only place that 1000 Galaxies was mentioned.