2002-05-06

gridlore: Doug looking off camera with a grin (Default)
2002-05-06 08:27 am

Space is really big.

Occasionally,Astronomy Picture of the Day acts as a very of Douglas Adams' Total Perspective Vortex.

Yesterday and today the featured shots have come from the Hubble Space Telescope'snew Advanced Camera for Surveys.

Take a look at these photos and realize that each of those galaxies has a few hundred billion stars, and each of these photos covers the tiniest sliver of the sky.

Makes one feel quite small at times.
gridlore: Doug looking off camera with a grin (Default)
2002-05-06 08:54 am
gridlore: Doug looking off camera with a grin (M-16)
2002-05-06 09:02 pm