Wednesday, April 25, 2018

Overwhelmed

Consider that:

The Giai spacecraft launched in 2013 and is orbiting our sun, about a million miles away from Earth. Although it's surveyed a huge number of stars, Giai is charting only about 1 percent of what's out there...

and that:

The Milky Way contains around 100 billion stars.

You sit and breathe on just one paltry star heated by another trivial star in a unfathomable number of stars and somehow, you think you are important.

How?

https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2018/04/25/605622779/you-are-here-scientists-unveil-precise-map-of-more-than-a-billion-stars


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