A Photographer Spent 12 Years Making This Milky Way Pic. It Will Crush Your Tiny Heart

https://www.sciencealert.com ^ | 19 MARCH 2021 | MICHELLE STARR

[Red Badger]

You must have a big monitor......................

[Adder]

Where da Walmart at?

[V K Lee]

Indeed, HE Is.

“Our GOD is an Awesome God.”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=smZwG-auxC8

[GOP_Party_Animal]

Once again, I appreciate Free Republic, not just for the amazing articles people post, but the great conservative commentary. Few other places will you find people connecting awesome photography with the Almighty that created the scene.

[bgill]

You thought your vote didn’t matter much.

[systemjim]

Oh God, your sea is so great and my boat is so small. -—Fisherman’s Prayer.

[4bye4]

Sort of scary when you grasp the distances involved, our nearest neighboring star is only 4.5 light years away if we could triple our current fastest speed, around 40,000 mph it would only take around 55,000 years to get there...

[goodnesswins]

Would love to have seen that...got a little taste in Northern Saskatchewan once

[Senormechanico]

I have experienced the same thing, but at sea level during offshore sailboat adventure. It’s best when the moon is about half in the middle of the day, so it is completely absent at night.
It feels like you can reach out and almost touch the stars.

[cymbeline]

“Many variables involved: Type of film, speed of film, if”

Google “pictures of andromeda galaxy”. You’ll see it rendered in various color schemes.

[cgbg]

Man’s hubris. We can’t imagine anything bigger or better than us.

We also can't imagine anything smaller or better than us.

Science's Achilles heel is arrogance--burns them every time.

[Stayfree]

With tears in my eyes, I feel like I am looking inside God’’s brain...............

[Bob434]

Imagine how much better it would have been if he went 13 years jnstead? The slacker! J/k very cool project

[GOP Poet]

Wow.

[ph_balanced]

I immediately thought of....

[blackpacific]

It makes my heart swell...

Creation is an act of Love.

[GreenLanternCorps]

[tet68]

will absolutely fill you with fernweh

I knew it had to be something...

[Flick Lives]

Yet, the Milky Way is a very tiny part of what we know as the universe.

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It is indeed as the Milky Way is only the stars within our own galaxy and there are currently estimated to be some 2 trillion galaxies in the Universe. That number is even bigger than the last Porkulus bill.

[Freedom_Is_Not_Free]

Stunning. I can’t imagine the feeling. I can see how that would be life altering. We could all use a serious reality check from time to time, especially when we are mad at some waitress who may be new or may have a dozen serious problems she is juggling at home. When you have these silly first world problems, it would be nice to be able to look up into such a sky and regain a perspective on what is really important and what is really not that important. The waitress is a little slow. So what.