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Thursday, September 10, 2009

Hubble (sorry not Carl)

This is off topic but I saw this image of a galaxy cluster taken by the Hubble Space Telescope and had to share.


It's hard to get your mind around the fact that each one of these bits of light is a galaxy containing millions or even billions of stars. Then try to imagine the vast distances between the stars within the galaxies and between the galaxies themselves. Very humbling indeed.

1 comment:

  1. and yet, according to people of certain beliefs, we are the only life in all of it.

    (notice I left out the word intelligent)

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