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famousringo on 22 January 2010
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mrstickball said:
famousringo said:
I know the theory behind it, but it always melts my brain when astronomers talk about looking back in time 13 billion years.

Yeah. Space is so vast in time and length, its very incomprehensible.

Heck, it was only yesterday I found out we had very small clusters near the milky way

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/a7/Universe_Reference_Map_%28Location%29_001.jpeg

I'm now interesting in understanding and comprehending LMC, Fornax,  Carina and the other minor galaxies near the Milky Way. Very interesting stuff.

This is a GREAT time period to be alive, since our understanding of the galaxy, and especially solar systems, is increasing by incredible amounts.

One of the coolest moments in Carl Sagan's Cosmos is when he imagines what it would be like to live on a planet in a globular cluster. You get to watch a galaxy rise every day!

I've posted it before, but I can't resist posting this again:



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