On a clear night, we are blessed with a wonderful view of a star filled sky. Tonight, just before turning in, I stopped to stair up at the glittering patterns above me, and the vastness of heavens that our tiny planet sits in. I find something quite calming and humbling viewing that site.
@crossingthethreshold Yes! It really is calming and humbling. We're so, so tiny in the vastness of it all. With just our eyes we can only see perhaps 6,000 stars in our night sky. But our galaxy contains billions! And then to consider the vast space between each star, that the photons from those distant stars have traveled for thousands of years only to end their journey when they strike the eye of a tiny little mammal on a tiny little planet.
@Denny I love this….
photons from those distant stars have traveled for thousands of years only to end their journey when they strike the eye of a tiny little mammal on a tiny little planet
@Parag Oh, glad you enjoyed it! I actually started writing a lot more but decided to just turn it into it's own blog post. Will post later this morning. 🤓
@Parag @crossingthethreshold Inspired by David's post I wrote a bit more, Sunday morning reflection on our moment in the cosmos... beardystarstuff.net/2023/07/0...
@Denny Thank you for writing this. So much to think about (so much to say). Holding what is happening here, within the larger picture of us in the universe.