Feeling small yet?
It’s a great big universe
And we’re all really puny
We’re just tiny little specks
About the size of Mickey Rooney.
It’s big and black and inky
And we are small and dinky
It’s a big universe and we’re not.
And an estimated 100 to 200 billion galaxies in the observable universe.
“Feeling small yet?”
When I have someone barking about something I show them the “You are here” picture of the Milky Way.
I've felt that way for a very long time.
I took this shot of M-16 Eagle Nebula not long ago. It's about 7,000 light years distance from our tiny planet.
Ya see those dark pillars near the center of the nebula?
The height/length of these pillar is approximately 24 trillion miles high....
That's "trillion" with a T.
Not really. Yes, it is an awesome thing to contemplate the vastness of the universe but remember this - that universe contemplates nothing.