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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsMindblowing - Zoom in on the Andromeda Galaxy - Universe full of stars
https://www.spacetelescope.org/images/heic1502a/zoomable/
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Mindblowing - Zoom in on the Andromeda Galaxy - Universe full of stars (Original Post)
packman
Jan 2017
OP
So what we see from Earth, as a black sky at night with some stars and a galaxy....
dixiegrrrrl
Jan 2017
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Wounded Bear
(58,645 posts)1. Cool stuff! Thanks for the link!
Rex
(65,616 posts)2. It's coming for us!
rurallib
(62,406 posts)3. that is mind blowing
our puny human brains can't comprehend
marylandblue
(12,344 posts)4. Yes truly mindblowing
I'm amazed we can see individual stars, all packed together like little marbles, but each one is light-years from the next.
greytdemocrat
(3,299 posts)5. Love it.
Cool stuff. I wondered
where my car keys were!!!
marylandblue
(12,344 posts)6. Good luck getting your keys back
Takket
(21,555 posts)12. i think i see my missing sock too
Jimbo101
(776 posts)7. "My God, It's Full of Stars!" - David Bowman (2001)
BSdetect
(8,998 posts)8. Beam us up there now.
marybourg
(12,619 posts)9. And we can see it in our own sky
every clear night as a fuzzy blob.
dixiegrrrrl
(60,010 posts)10. So what we see from Earth, as a black sky at night with some stars and a galaxy....
is really invisible- to- the- naked -eye dense star fields.
I have always found the sight/thought of the universe to be very calming, in the way it makes us all so deeply insignificant.
malaise
(268,916 posts)11. Beautiful
Thanks