the grandeur of the milky way

if you want to feel small click on this link:

1/1000 of the milky way.

so that is a 1 BILLION pixel picture of our milky way, if you could see it with your naked eye. you can zoom in pretty far. and you'll notice that there is a "haze" to a lot of the picture. those are literally hundreds of millions of stars. and that is just a part of our own galaxy. move the zoom-box to a "dark" area, and there are still thousands and thousands of stars.

to give you a sense of what percentage of sky it is. hold up your hands towards the sky, now put them next to each other. see how much of the sky you are covering up? that's about the size this picture is taking up.

cray cray.