Space is big, really big .......

[John]

A short report of a new Hubble image of galaxy NGC 4911 was posted in the news section a short while back:

http://stargazerslounge.com/space-news/110518-island-universe-coma-cluster.html

I'd overlooked the report until I stumbled on the image:

Hubble Heritage

It's an amazing image in so many ways and, I feel, really brings home the size of the universe we inhabit. Each of the 100's of fuzzy blobs in the image are galaxies containing tens or hundreds of millions of stars

Can't help thinking of the Douglas Adams description from the Hitchhikers Guide ..... "Space is big. Really big. You just won't believe how vastly hugely mind-bogglingly big it is. I mean, you may think it's a long way down the road to the chemist, but that's just peanuts to space."

[Nick P]

Mind boggling isn't it!

Like trying to imagine what was there before the big bang, assuming you accept that this event created everything!

[brantuk]

That pic of NGC 4911 sure makes you feel insignificant. It makes one wonder why and how, in all this vast expanse, are we just tiny specs, yet, within our own understanding, so sophisticated.