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The Universe is Vast and So Damn Sexy

Wherein I link to an amazing deep space picture

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When you look up at night, you might see a thousand stars. With binoculars, you might see tens of thousands. With a decent telescope, that number goes up to a seemingly amazing tens of millions.

This one image shows tens of thousands of trillions of stars. A million stars for every man, woman, and child on Earth, with more to spare. And it’s only one small part of the sky.

[From A thousand trillion suns | Bad Astronomy | Discover Magazine]

 

Perspective.

And stunning beauty.

And the rare occurrence of pride in my species that, as tiny and ephemeral and fragile as we are, we figured out how to see so far into the universe.

via Webster69

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