How Insignificant Are We?
 

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These 25 pictures will make you completely re-evaluate your existence. Just WHOA.

Thanks for that, Don.

I agree...perspective is always an important aspect for us to remember.

Good stuff!

I took a couple Astronomy course in college so learned all of this but still enjoy the entire study of the universe above and around us.....never ceases to fascinate me!

We're an absolutely incredible and nearly impossible fluke. None of this should be by any reasonable measure. Yet, we are here.

I bet a squillon times over. Not just like us, but flukes happen when magnitude is in the tens of billions of chance.

The light year is impossible to genuinely fathom for the normal person.

The astronomer can probably grasp because of being immersed in it.

One of the 25 slides says "millions" of stars in galaxies. It's billions.