Gigapixels of Andromeda (Cool Vid via Youtube)

NASA Image Via You Tube ^ | January 6, 2015 | daveachuk

[beaversmom]

Video Link: Gigapixels of Andromeda

[Las Vegas Dave]

Of possible interest ( as a FYI) to the UAP ping list..

Amazing!

[beaversmom]

I’m not sure at which part you meant.

[beaversmom]

That is really interesting. And certainly fun to think about. I was looking at the sky after I read this yesterday. Size is so relative. We think we are a certain size, but we are tiny in the scheme of things. Our Earth is tiny in the scheme of things. Even our Milky Way. It also made me think of the ending of the Incredible Shrinking Man. I find this truly beautiful:

“I was continuing to shrink, to become… what? The infinitesimal? What was I? Still a human being? Or was I the man of the future? If there were other bursts of radiation, other clouds drifting across seas and continents, would other beings follow me into this vast new world?

So close – the infinitesimal and the infinite. But suddenly, I knew they were really the two ends of the same concept. The unbelievably small and the unbelievably vast eventually meet – like the closing of a gigantic circle. I looked up, as if somehow I would grasp the heavens. The universe, worlds beyond number, God’s silver tapestry spread across the night.

And in that moment, I knew the answer to the riddle of the infinite. I had thought in terms of man’s own limited dimension. I had presumed upon nature. That existence begins and ends is man’s conception, not nature’s. And I felt my body dwindling, melting, becoming nothing. My fears melted away. And in their place came acceptance. All this vast majesty of creation, it had to mean something. And then I meant something, too. Yes, smaller than the smallest, I meant something, too.

To God, there is no zero. I still exist! “

Ending Monologue from the Incredible Shrinking Man

[beaversmom]

It almost numbs the mind, as much as it excites.

I love that dichotomy, and I understand exactly what you mean.

[Tucker39]

As the video moves along, scanning the galaxy and zooming in on certain areas, other than definite stars, which are obvious, there are countless small “particles” which resemble grains of sand on a dark background. What are THEY?

[apostoli]

“... I think that’s because its light hasn’t reached us yet”

Actually, since only 5% of our known Universe is visible, being that the other 95% is Dark Matter/Dark Energy, that is the reference as to why we cannot ‘see it’. As of yet anyway.

and if I may use this to soapbox: Blame your high school chemistry/physics teachers who state unequivocally that ‘everything’ in the Universe is made up of parts of the Periodic Table.

As a scientist, physicist by training, TRUE science has as it’s cornerstone this fact, “We only know what we know now” meaning, anyone dead-set on a particular belief MAY live long enuf to experience a ‘shift’ in perception.

Examples are endless. Earth is the center of the Universe, our Sun revolves around the Earth, etc. Currently it is the Anthropologic Global Warming Nazi’s belief system that is giving you electric cars, solar panels in the desert frying birds in the sky and windmills slicing and dicing up eagles and other protected birds as I type.

Scientific wannabees. They think their PHD makes them ‘smart’... they know ‘too much’. They forget the scientific basics like, Energy cannot be created or destroyed. And they go on believing that electric cars save the planet. Hell, they cannot ‘save’ their own lawn.

Being a good steward of world is NOT the same as ‘saving the planet’. The latter type needs medication before and after arrogance arrestment and the former live in the real world.

[xp38]

The Andromeda Galaxy is barely visible to the naked eye under ideal conditions. It is likely the largest thing the unaided eye can see. 200.000 light years across in distance and 2.5 million light years away. So the light you see from it has been traveling for a while. Viewing through binoculars or a telescope of course takes you to the next level.

[beaversmom]

I’m sorry. I do not know. Maybe someone will know and can tell us.

[GrandJediMasterYoda]

I like what George Carlin once said about that “Save the planet” catchphrase.

“The planet has been through a lot worse than us. Been through earthquakes, volcanoes, plate tectonics, continental drift, solar flares, sun spots, magnetic storms, the magnetic reversal of the poles … hundreds of thousands of years of bombardment by comets and asteroids and meteors, worldwide floods, tidal waves, worldwide fires, erosion, cosmic rays, recurring ice ages … And we think some plastic bags and some aluminum cans are going to make a difference? The planet isn’t going anywhere. WE are!”

LOL!

[Tucker39]

That’s alright. Someday the Lord will explain it all. Thanks for posting it. Just that “little” area of the Cosmos is mind-boggling.

[beaversmom]

That’s alright. Someday the Lord will explain it all.

Lol...that's what I'm hoping for, too! :)

Just that “little” area of the Cosmos is mind-boggling.

Yep, just that neighbourhood. :)

[Windflier]

Thanks for the ping, Dave. This is great stuff.