You gotta watch this!!!

[M4lcs67]

Don't know if this has been posted before, but if it hasn't then here it is. A fantastic explanation of things cosmic. If you didn't realise how big everything was before, you certainly will after...

http://www.openculture.com/2012/11/google_presents_an_interactive_visualization_of_100000_stars.html

[paul schofield]

Great post, have not seen that one before. I find even with things like this it is impossible to comprehend the scale of our galaxy. Thanks for the post.

Paul.

[Catweazel]

Amazing! Thanks for that

[JamesM]

Thanks for the heads up! Very interesting and certainly reminds us all of how truly unimportant we are as a species in the whole cosmic scheme of things.

James

[Markatw]

Amazing -now feeling rather small. Thanks for the post.

[astronomit]

Amazing - many thanks for posting that.

Tim.

[paulgallagher83]

so are we really the only planet with "beings" on??

[Redbird48oo]

HUMMM guess would be like compairing it to an ant's point of view looking at the whole of the USA.......hard to grasp it all.

[faulksy]

thanks for that good post

[SnakeyJ]

And only one small insignificant galaxy amongst a universe with innumerable billions of others.

Don't think any of us are equipped to truely get a grip at this scale, but its wonderful to explore our cosmic back yard...

[ubertank]

Wow. Very cool.

[Pappy Nick]

so are we really the only planet with "beings" on??

In a way, it would be nice if that was the case. It would make us kind of special.

But, even if it wasn't, I doubt any other "beings" would be the same as us, so we'd still be kind of special (aaawwwww )

[Raga]

That is awesome. It truly does make you realise how small we really are in the grand scheme of things.

Thanks for sharing.

[dhodg]

Just WOW!

Just to think that cluster of 100,000 stars is just a tiny part of our own galaxy, what a great representation of the epic scale of the Milky Way. It'd be even better if they could carry onto putting everything on a universal scale