Saturday, May 16, 2020

Our Place in the Universe


Tiny misting raindrops this evening, falling all around us; nurturing our newly planted seedlings and seeds.  A momentary peace in our happy world: my cat naps, totally relaxed.

Whatever stress and tension there may have been, during the day, let it go and think of the wonder that we are but one insignificant planet within a single star’s orbit, within a giant galaxy containing billions of such stars, in every direction.
As the supposedly “smart” entity on this planet, we only figured this out a few years ago, in galactic time.
And if and when, you can ever get your mind around the immensity  and distances within our Milky Way Galaxy,
I think you may agree that you might need drugs to fully comprehend that our Milky Way is just one of billions of galaxies, again in every direction – galaxies are being born, living for billions of years, and dying, in our universe.
This picture is so far out, that only a galaxy, and many are revolving spirals like ours, only the cumulative effect of billions of stars will show up on the photograph.  But as you can imagine, a telescope can only look at  very small picture of the universe at a time.  Multiply this by millions as you change the focus of the camera all around our globe.

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