This is always a humbling picture to look at. Even if we re the only ones in the universe...we're not even a flake of color in a fraction of the whole picture.

wow i've seen this picture EVERYWHERE on the internet.
literally, everywhere.

it is cool though.

Can you say incredible? Not many people stop and think about vastness of space. It is truly incredible. And there will still be people that say there no life out there.

how one could not look through that image and feel so small and insignificant is beyond me.

We have such a small star, an even smaller planet...yet we have life.

And there are millions of people who believe we are alone.

Thank God for ATS and images like this one

S&F

It is almost too mind boggling to grasp!

Thank you for posting this. I can't wait to show this to the kiddos after they come home from school.

If I knew how to star and flag I would certainly give you one for this (I usually just read threads and don't post often)

I've seen a video showing these comparisons, can't remember if it was on ATS though. It almost seems as if we are the sub-atomic particles on some grander scale; we just pale in comparison to the vastness of this universe.

It's been on here before and I prefer the GIF animation of it, but I think it's incredible and I'm glad it's getting attention again.

wow! I have seen this for some time now, but it is always great to look at.

What I was thinking was, what if we turned that camera around and did it for 4 months at that position. Or even point it perpendicular to where this was shot. what would we see then?

this is TOO mind numbing for me.

first the cell one was posted a few days ago or so that made us feel so big but then we have this.

I sometimes wonder what if we are just like cells to something even bigger?

i still dont see how people can think we are the only intelligent thing in this universe. We are smaller than an atom on the universal scale how can we be the only lucky ones lol. hopefully with anti gravity being closer to the public eye we may be able to explore someday.

I've seen similar pictures before (and I'm sure other's have as well)...
Yet, every time I see them, my mind is still blown away as much (if not more so) than the first time I saw it.

Star and flag for you my friend! =)

Originally posted by Snarf

And there are millions of people who believe we are alone.

And those people are truly the most ignorant that it's not even funny.


As for the picture, we are truly nothing in the universe by that scale.

My head hurts thinking of all types of things looking at these pictures. Firstly how huge is VY Canis Majoris compared to earth???? Even the sun alone doesnt blimp on the scale of VY Canis Majoris so earth is so so small. Imagine if Earth crashed into something the size of VY Canis Majoris (Forget the burning up on the way there) total destruction and biblical times on this little planet yet yet VY Canis Majoris wouldnt even notice. It would be similar to a asteroid the size of a tennis ball colliding with earth. Ow that hurts my head. Ill be thinking twice next time i see a mini asteroid burning up in our atmosphere wondering if its a tiny little earth type planet inhabited with 6 billion microscopic intelligent beings with technology. Then it keeps going smaller when you think of atomic structures in comparison to these heavenly bodies. WOW i cannot grasp that thought alone.

Also how do you understand the gravity on things so large. a million trillion zillion possibilities all out there right in front of us yet we kill each other for land, resources, religion and other things yet we dont even show up on the universal radar. How unimportant do those things seem now. We got problems.

Thats just as far as we can see aswell!!!!!!!!!!! what else is out there? Is our universe one of the 10,000 universes in a small picture taken by another being in a universe where we cannot even begin to imagine the distance

Then the questions of "Why is it all there?" "Where did it all come from" "What is outside the big space that we're all in?"

Wow Wow Wow sore sore sore head

Thanks

wow

repost much?

i saw this ON ATS before



Bought amazing nonetheless

[edit on 11/4/2009 by die_another_day]

awesome pictures shows everything don it