the andromeda galaxy

[angrychair]

19. Absolutely beautifully done

Very nice. The one thing I hate about images of space is that they are often incredibly beautiful and stunning images but are incredibly poor ways to convey the magnitude of what is being observed.
For example, in this image is an entirely different galaxy than our own. The Andromeda Galaxy is more than twice the size of our Milky Way Galaxy at over 200,000 light years across and is believed to contain over a trillion planets.
I mean let's be honest, our mind can't even grasp the size of our own galaxy, much less another one. It's just so mind bogglingly huge in scale that you can't help but be humbled and realize that our little problems here are completely insignificant to the universe. If we destroy ourselves over the next couple of years the universe won't even have had time to notice we existed at all.
It's up to us to survive and prove to the universe that we existed and we mattered. We are likely hundreds of years and dozens of generations from doing that but for now let's just try to get through the day 😊