http://djer.roe.ac.uk/vsa/vvv/iipmooviewer-2.0-beta/vvvgps5.html
A picture of 1 billion stars, zoom into it, REALLY zoom into it.
See the insignificance of each star in the total?
Every star, just like our sun that dwarfs us wholly
What is our feeble species?
It's funny really, people treat infinity as something that cannot be reached, cannot be seen...But all that we have to do to see infinity is actually look up at the stars. One light year alone is such a vast distance that no human mind can properly comprehend it, it's just out of our scope...Therefore, it is to us, infinity.
They're beautiful, aren't they? Really makes you think of you small you are, and how we are not special. If only others saw this, the world would be a better place (but would that even matter [in short, yes, here's to a blogpost]). Btw, you should sleep outside once in a while (while the weather's nice). 8 sideways.
ReplyDeleteAmazingly beautiful, amazingly vast :p
ReplyDeleteThere's too much light pollution here :( I remember sleeping outside at my uncles farm in Pakistan, best night of my life
Though I did get eaten alive by bugs, worth it!