GN-108036, the Universe - December 21, 2011
One of the most distant galaxies known, dating back to only 750 million years after the Big Bang. Its light took 12.9 billion years to reach Earth. Courtesy of Hubble, Spitzer, and NASA.
It's images like these that leave me breathless. I mean, each one of those is a galaxy. Each one of those tiny balls of light contains hundreds of thousands of stars, perhaps millions upon millions. And each one of those stars may be flanked by one or even several planetary bodies. I wonder how many of them are habitable.
It's almost as though you could reach out and touch it.
Would that not be a communion with nature in the vastest, truest, ultimate sense?
Can you imagine?
Idk I just have deep thoughts, man