We are small.....

AlaskaDK · 5 months

The only reason i would want to be immortal is to be able to discover all those different planets.

[deleted] · 5 months

Surprised no one linked the Video. BTW not 4 months...10 days.

xladiciusx · 5 months

the inaccuracies in this gif are astounding. a trillion stars in each galaxy? no. more like 300 billion. all the galaxies more than 13 billion light years away? no, but an immense distance, nonetheless. it wasn't pointed for 4 months, either. it was pointed into the deep field for 150 consecutive orbits, with each orbit taking approximately 97 minutes. whoever made this did little to no research and tried to enhance something that is so astonishing it need not be altered. son i am disappoint.

Splinter1010 · 5 months

This actually makes me stunned, just completely speechless. I can't comprehend how much there is in existence. It's as difficult as fully comprehending zero, and is comprehending infinity. It's an impossibility to realize just how insignificant I am. I could die right now, be in local newspapers for a day or two depending on how I die, leave my family and friends morning for a while, nothing else. I'm on a small planet orbiting a completely average star surrounded by other stars, and our entire solar system, our entire galaxy, our planet, has no significance besides supporting life. And I happened to be born. It completely stuns me.

Dr_Roidberg · 5 months

The full resolution image for those interested.

chudapati09 · 5 months

It makes you wonder, what is actually out there. With all this, we can't be the only living intelligent species, it wouldn't make sense.

EDIT: Spelling

[deleted] · 5 months

Mind bottling. My mind's in a bottle.

pocketchange2247 · 5 months

Now look at the universe in the opposite direction of this gif. Go to microscopic levels and even beyond that to find atoms, then beyond these atoms are neutrons and electrons and what not, then beyond that a smaller building block of matter. Numbers in the universe range from an infinitely enormous scale that reach values you will never fully be able to put into perspective.

Rhinio · 5 months

... and where is this high rez photo I was promised...?

GreyscaleCheese · 5 months

"a still more glorious dawn awaits not a sun rise, but a galaxy rise" - carl sagan

strikethat_reverseit · 5 months

This is so perfect. I saw this while studying for my Astrophysics final, we went over this in class along with so many other random facts that would blow my mind and leave me contemplative and sometimes dare I say... emotional.

MomoPeacheZ · 5 months

This is absolutely amazing. Actually, no. Amazing doesn't even begin to describe this.

b0xcu77er · 5 months

Can I get source for this?

[deleted] · 5 months

Thank you for the greatly inspirational gif, people may hate but this is the first time I have seen this and... Well... Me gusta.

lessonplan · 5 months

Man. If you want to feel small. If you want to feel tiny and full of awe at the mercy of the vastness of the universe... watch this

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fgg2tpUVbXQ&feature=plcp

edit: ah, he made a prettier HD one, though it's not as well narrated http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oAVjF_7ensg&feature=plcp

but without Shine On you Crazy Diamond in the beginning :(

donpapillon · 5 months

This is why I wish I was a cosmic god. Imagine travelling at lightspeed and beyond, through countless galaxies, stars, planets, nebulas, black holes, quazars, pulsars, twin stars, and so much more that we have no clue about. Reach the end of the universe and see if there's something beyond. Understand dimensions beyond the third. See through all the layers of time and different possibilities at once, not bound by the chains of our time perspective. Seeing in microscopic, atomic and subatomic levels, all the amazing things that happen there as well.

That's why I respect scientists so much. They are almost like cosmic gods.

heyheylove_87 · 5 months

Dude, this stuff gives me panic attacks when I think about how we are probably a tiny pretty dot on someone else's crazy cool telescope photo, just like this.

PigPen220 · 5 months

This gave me the kind of chills that reach the depths of your being... equal parts awe, fear, hope and disappointment.

Caboose127 · 5 months

As a Christian, the thing that is so unbelievable about this is not that it suggests an existence of more than 6000 (I'm nowhere near dense enough to believe that), what is most unbelievable to me is that some Christians are actually self-centered enough to believe that we as the inhabitants of this planet are somehow unique or favored in the midst of all of this.

The_Vision_of_Sound · 5 months

Isn't VY Canis Majoris the largest known star?

julianface · 5 months

"lol grab a snickers"

classic

Apparentable · 5 months

Relevant and otherwise pretty awesome. http://htwins.net/scale2/

TheChrisHill · 5 months

This seriously almost makes me cry because of how fucking awesome science is.

SenorDragon · 5 months

Well at least we know that no galaxy's have the ability to get to other galaxy's. Or maybe they're just avoiding earth

erinrathbun · 5 months

it reminds me of this only on a much MUCH larger scale. but still, scares the shit out of me and intrigues me all the same.

Bambi_88 · 5 months

I am in absolute awe. Stunning, mind blowing and ever so slightly terrifying at the same time.

Synikull · 5 months

"A long time ago in a galaxy far far away" is disturbingly relevant...

JxFTW · 5 months

Galaxies, Galaxies everywhere.

heavyliftderrick · 5 months

You swine - you broke my brain

threwitawaynow · 5 months

The fact that we need a .gif like this in order to feel insignificant just shows how arrogant we are as a species.

Nemausus · 5 months

A succinct demonstration of this concept in a single image, from Earth to the Universe.

aiden93 · 5 months

While this is all amazing, I have to say I was expecting something to jump out and scare me.

[deleted] · 5 months

I like to look at like this, no matter how bad you fuck up in life, just remember it's so insignificant it doesn't matter.

VicariousHades4 · 5 months

.....and Christians still claim to know the origin of the Universe

Dessdo · 5 months

And THIS is why I believe it to be a strange thought, that we should be the only "intelligent" life in this universe..

mollshenanigans · 5 months

This was mindblowing.

ValiantTurtle19 · 5 months

Anyone else hesitate before looking at what the Hubble saw? Or have I just seen so many to know from experience?

rodzr · 5 months

Sometimes I wish an UFO abducted me. Even if I get my anus probed, fuck it. I would be willing to give it up to visit other places in the universe.

Siethron · 5 months

All these galaxies are most likely giant black holes or dead in another way by now.

Kilerazn · 5 months

For some reason this just got me depressed...or overwhelmed...or irrelevant.. I can't tell.

joneill1 · 5 months

Think about it. There are infinite possibilities of life out there. Like Pokemon.

I was born in the wrong galaxy...

admiraljohn · 5 months

After you watch this gif, watch this and then shake your head in sadness at the fact that the US doesn't care about exploring anymore.

michaelsong55 · 5 months

i have seen this thing a million times and i still watch it, and it keeps blowing my mind

beefcoon · 5 months

Qw.ll

[deleted] · 5 months

Honestly, this doesn't make me feel small. Here's why... the numbers part of my brain realizes that these are BIG distances and sizes, but the human mind isn't designed to understand things on this scale. We're designed to understand "wow those mountains are really far away... that's like... 200km from here".

So part of me recognizes "wow that star is big" but my brain can't conceptualize something of that size.

imkidding · 5 months

Jesus Christ...

LordPhantom · 5 months

The true question is does the universe end? And if it does, what's outside of that?

themauwinator · 5 months

Where is your god now?

glawton · 5 months

ts:dr

MrDudeRI · 5 months

That's what she said...

omgbeees · 5 months

Holy shit speed up that text...

albsaint · 5 months

When i was young.. I always wanted to have ability to lift into space (think superman). Then i would think how i would die of gas ( i was old enough to know that i would suffocate) so i knew i would have to have an hero robe what has a shield. Like a film of thickness around me. This robe would allow me to breath but gas could not penetrate it. I know, i was a genius. Then i was thinking while i was there it could get cold,so now my robe would be thermal resistant. Oh and i could pee out of it too.. However i would stop fantasizing in fear that if i realized this dream and maybe if i do get this lucky, upon my journey to discover space would be the end of earth. I always ended my thoughts with alien life force discovering/noticing me running around like a happy child and follow me all the way back home.Maybe we live at a "neighborhood" that no alien has noticed. Now they found earth because of me. Being way more advance than us, we die. I always feel that we might find what we looking for and not like it.

Now, much older i still think of it as a pessimist. i believe if i do go flying freely, my body mass will react with near by objects and probably re-route a comet to hit earth. Someone cheer me up damn it!

On this topic : We can't possibly be alone in this amazing universe! Great post.

t33soccer · 5 months

You know this is real when Wikipedia is cited....Mind=Blown

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