Cooooool...
I’ll never forget my freshman year in college, when I took an introductory Astronomy class. Our prof took us up to the observatory the first week and let us all look through the telescope to get a glimpse of Saturn. I really was left speechless by it.
Space is so danged neat!
It is. I remember looking through the cheapie reflector scope (Edmund Scientific) at Jupiter the first time, and how the Galilean moons were laid out like pearls.
Yes, space is mind boggling! There are Billions of Suns in our own milky way galaxy and there are Billions of galaxies in the universe we can reach with technology.
Which means there are Hundreds of Billions of earth like planets in space. And if only 1% evolved life, there are many Billions of planets with life.
The only problem is they are millions of light years away from us. Chances of contacting any of them are extremely minute.