Some photos of the Universe

[lunatica]

[cliffordu]

1. I sooooo would love to spend the next trillion light years exploring all that....

[lunatica]

2. kick

[Saphire]

3. Never get tired of looking at that.

[lunatica]

5. Here's NASA's Astronomy picture of the day archive site

http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/archivepix.html

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

4. Makes one wonder about God.

Why would He (has to be a "he") construct such a bodacious wonder and then get fixated on a teeny speck of it and one of the even teenier life forms wandering around on it?

[lunatica]

6. Becuz Christians are special and god's favorite and stuff

It's all waiting out there for us to use when we get there. After all god created it for us to use.

[onethatcares]

10. nah, we're the only ones that sin and need redemption

the rest are way cool.

[Motown_Johnny]

7. if you are eternal you must have plenty of time to fill

[Urban Prairie]

8. Perhaps after we die, our "essence" is reborn upon another planet within that mind-boggling vastness

Kind of exciting yet scary to think about the possibility of being reincarnated as an entirely different and perhaps alien life form, maybe even upon a million light-years distant planet from ours, and of whom may, or then again may not enjoy a safe and healthy lifespan.

Might even end up as the main course of its "dinner" menu or side-dish for some spider-like alien creature after becoming tangled up within its "web". Our deaths can be feared b/c of the "destination unknown" factor afterward. Do we truly cease to exist after our physical deaths, or not?

[coalition_unwilling]

12. I want to come back as a flea, so I can bite some Republican on

the ass. Is that too much to ask? :)

[lunatica]

9. kick

[Forkboy]

11. Awe-inspiring and rather humbling.

Thanks for sharing.

[sarcasmo]

13. The top photo is my new screen saver.

[Urban Prairie]

14. Colliding galaxies

Are fascinating, IMO, especially considering the massive black holes that are within both maybe coming into collision contact with each other, or a gigantic black hole coming into a collision with a quasar, or a relatively smaller black hole vs a giant star about to go supernova or one that has already begun to explode...what happens then?

[Ikonoklast]

15. Real estate values in the immediate vicinity plummet.

The stupendous amounts of radiation released kinda make good schools a moot selling point.

[lunatica]

16. kick

[Urban Prairie]

17. Celestia is an OpenGL-based 3D space simulation for Unix and Win32

that lets you travel through the solar system, to the stars, and even beyond the galaxy. Visit over 100,000 stars, 100 solar system bodies, and all known extrasolar planets.

http://freshmeat.net/projects/celestia