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John Byrne
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First ImagesYeah, right, we’re all alone.
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Michael Penn
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Space: so unfathomably full and yet so unfathomably, well, spacious!
It's hard to actually reconcile those two facts.
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Andrew Davey
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"It's full of stars!"
Spectacular images.
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John Byrne
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Space: so unfathomably full and yet so unfathomably, well, spacious!••• You may think it’s a long way down the road to the chemist, but that’s just peanuts to space!
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Conrad Teves
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Amazing instrument. And naming the telescope after the woman who discovered the discrepancy in galactic rotation speeds that led so modern research of Dark Matter in the first place is just perfect.
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Michael Penn
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If every mile were scaled down to one inch, the Moon would be about 3.77 miles from Earth. That's a little more than the distance from Wall Street to Times Square.
Mars from Earth would be approximately 2,209 miles, which is like the distance from NYC to El Paso.
And the closest other galaxy, Andromeda, if every mile were an inch? 232 trillion miles away.
WHO CAN EVEN DREAM OF THAT?!
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Conrad Teves
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The scale analogy I like is if the whole Solar System were about the size of a manhole cover, and the Sun were about the size of a grain of salt (the planets almost too small to see), the nearest star system, Alpha Centauri, would be 4 miles away! I like this is partially because it evokes the image of a great void with manhole covers floating in it every few miles or so.
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John Byrne
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The sad fact is, while we are almost certainly not alone in this Universe, we might as well be. Without invoking science-fiction, there’s no realistic manner by which we will ever be able to span the distance between the stars. Bummer.
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Paul Wills
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That is one incredible image!Looking at that helps me to understand why Jack Kirby introduced the Silver Surfer to navigate the cosmos for Galactus (sorry, it's my comic book mind interfering with reality)
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John Byrne
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That’s my world, Paul!
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Wallace Sellars
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The power of those images should be enough to quell anyone’s ego.
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John Byrne
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I’m reminded of a line in TOMBSTONE. Morgan Earp, having become involved in Spiritualism, contemplates night sky and proclaims it nothing less than a miracle that God should have created all that and still taken the time to create him!Humans who consider themselves important in God’s Plan do not feel at all diminished by images such as we see here.
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