Yes, cosmically designed to blow the circuits of us humans, and put things into perspective.
---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, <j_alexander_stanley@...> wrote : And, yet, as magnificent as it is, everything we see in the sky is but the tiniest microfraction of the universe. Ya gotta figure that every bit of the glowing near-field backdrop is blocking our view of an unimaginably huge deep field. Hubble Ultra-Deep Field - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hubble_Ultra-Deep_Field http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hubble_Ultra-Deep_Field Hubble Ultra-Deep Field - Wikipedia, the free encyclo... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hubble_Ultra-Deep_Field Coordinates: 3h 32m 39.0s, −27° 47′ 29.1″ View on en.wikipedia.org http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hubble_Ultra-Deep_Field Preview by Yahoo ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, <fleetwood_macncheese@...> wrote : Good morning, If you have ever really seen it, you would swallow those words. I was just outside in this early morning, where I now live, and the Milky Way is straight overhead, bursting full like a navy sequined blanket, both warm and cold, inviting and remote, and infinitely awe inspiring. Bright stars of all sizes, filling my view, and the deeper into any point I look, there are even more - brilliant hot diamonds of light; countless worlds and their heat, in the vastness of space. My advice? Simply look up more often, both inside, and out. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, <turquoiseb@...> wrote : From: "jedi_spock@... [FairfieldLife]" <FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com> Our galaxy Milky-Way is on the outskirts of a massive supercluster called Laniakea, which consists of 100,000 large galaxies. http://www.theguardian.com/science/2014/sep/03/ milky-way-laniakea-galaxy-supercluster-immeasurable-heaven http://www.theguardian.com/science/2014/sep/03/milky-way-laniakea-galaxy-supercluster-immeasurable-heaven And it is generally considered to be the asshole of the entire galactic supercluster, in the same way Detroit is considered to be the asshole of America. :-)
