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Hard to fathom the vastness.

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Earths Relative Size in Space

The following image will no doubt amaze and or scare you. It might make you ponder our insignificance in space, it might not, but it most probably will. It's a gif image, so wait for it to load – by…
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Good prospective. I was having some problems in my little world. Now they don’t seem so big. Thanks for sharing.
 
Being an active amateur astronomer for the past 30 something years, this thread is found to be fascinating. Even as large as some of these stars are, my largest telescope with computer can't pick them up. Distances are mind-boggling! Did you know that ANY star you see with your eyes at night is larger than our Sun?
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...and likely burned out many years ago and all your seeing is the light left over. Crazy aint it?
 
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