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Originally Posted by Dom
Every time I see a picture like this it takes my breath away. Just think how big the Earth is, then how big the Sun is. There are billions of stars like the Sun in our galaxy. Each one of those things in the picture is a galaxy. That's only an absolutely tiny portion of just the universe we've seen. The sheer size of that thought is overwhelming. |
That is indeed a great picture. For those of you who don't know, the very small red dots are the earliest galaxies in the entire Universe, some of them coming just millions of years after the Big Bang.