I can't help it... This blows me away!

cloggsy71

This is old, but whenever I see it, it blows me away to think just how 'fragile' and 'insignificant' we are in the Universe...

All to scale...

Our 'home' planets...



Other planets in our Solar System...



Looking pretty 'insignificant' already huh?

Our planets in comparison to our Sun...



Our Sun in comparison to other large stars in our Galaxy...



Feeling really insignificant yet?

How about this?

Compaired to the largest known Stars in the Galaxy, the sun is the equivalent to 1 pixel on this image...



The Human Race is really nothing more than microscopic germs on the very tip on a needle isn't it?

Fascinating eh?

pmm7692

Interesting perspective

Michelle_Padgett13

Makes me think of this...


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=buqtdpuZxvk

KitTheRoadie

Love it!

This is Carl Sagan's "Pale Blue Dot" - One of my favourite outreach scientists from his show 'Cosmos'.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p86BPM1GV8M

There's nothing I love more than standing and staring in to the vastness of space; looking at the stars, it fills me with such wonder and awe. I know how small I really am, and with that how humbled I am to be here to see the universe in all it's glory!

Peace out peeps! :flowerforyou: :glasses: :laugh:

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SonicDeathMonkey80

Yeah but we're the only ones that matter.

'Merica

TheBrolympus

Yeah but we're the only ones that matter.

'Merica

Don't antagonize the aliens. You know what happens!

Orion782

It's like "Horton Hears a Who" on steroids. Haha.

likitisplit

Yeah but we're the only ones that matter.

'Merica

I've started to think about it as a messy, painful, busy, beautiful celebration of life in the midst of a vast, cold void.

Beautiful_disaster40

Science!