Showing posts with label astronomy. Show all posts
Showing posts with label astronomy. Show all posts

Thursday, January 21, 2010

magnificent!

"Space is big. You just won't believe how vastly, hugely, mind-bogglingly big it is. I mean, you may think it's a long way down the road to the chemist's, but that's just peanuts to space."
--Douglas Adams




















Stunning photos of the universe like these always fill me with such awe. I once read that there are more galaxies in the universe than grains of sand in a typical sized sandbox. Each galaxy contains billions of stars and each star is light years apart.

We are tiny.

Furthermore, this will quite literally put you in your place:

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