[ExI] blown mind

Mike Dougherty msd001 at gmail.com
Sat Sep 29 03:15:02 UTC 2012


On Fri, Sep 28, 2012 at 12:17 AM, spike <spike66 at att.net> wrote:
> Just take a few minutes and gaze at this picture:
>
> http://www.spacetelescope.org/static/archives/images/large/heic1214a.jpg
>
> And while you are doing that, ponder this: the typical spacing between
> galaxies is on the order of a million light years.  Then gaze at this
> picture again.  There are about 8 foreground stars, but all the rest of
> those little smudges are unimaginably large numbers of star, each of which
> is large enough in itself that the mind boggles.  Does that blow your mind,
> or what?

My first thought was that it looks a lot like a close up of pavement,
as if one were looking for textures with which to tile a background.
In that sense, yes it blows my mind to imagine a wide view of the
universe in a patch of pavement.



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