Fred-ditor t1_ixzlxl1 wrote
It blows my mind seeing that bright spot in the middle. It looks like a star at the center of a solar system but it's actually a black hole at the center of a galaxy but that black hole has attracted so many stars that the incredibly bright sphere is made of densely packed stars that each may house planets of their own and all that blue and white dust spinning around them is made of ho hum just a zillion more stars and this is just one of the countless galaxies out there.
Yet on a cosmic time scale, each of those galaxies may be like a drop of water, slowly evaporating their light and heat outwards while their mass shrivels and gets sucked into the super massive black hole before blinking out of existence, and what we're marveling at is the splash of a random droplet with no more significance to the universe than the drop you casually wiped off your windshield on the way to your meaningless job.
Sigvald1 OP t1_ixzoq2p wrote
Wow… wow what a description, our life truly is meaningless on a cosmic scale. But that is what makes it amazing, us being to able look and wonder.
Aftermathemetician t1_ixzzn57 wrote
Well, It’s not just one of the uncountable multitudes of galaxies out there. It’s humongous for a galaxy with almost 10x the average number of stars. Furthermore Andromeda is racing towards us and will eventually collide with the Milky Way and throw both galaxies into a chaotic whirlwind for a few billion years.
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