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1monster
May 2014
OP
It looks like a jewel encrusted frisbee flying though space. Which galaxy is it?
1monster
May 2014
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Voice for Peace
(13,141 posts)1. mmmmm delicious
kokobell616
(35 posts)2. Vast Empty Limitless
aint_no_life_nowhere
(21,925 posts)3. Such beautiful and poetic words about our little world on Earth
as we contemplate the void, caught between the infinitely small and infinitely large like this galaxy 28 million light years away.
1monster
(11,012 posts)4. It looks like a jewel encrusted frisbee flying though space. Which galaxy is it?
aint_no_life_nowhere
(21,925 posts)5. The Sombrero Galaxy
which seems to be everyone's favorite other than the Milky Way.
awoke_in_2003
(34,582 posts)7. Just in time for Cinco de Mayo. nt
paleotn
(17,876 posts)6. No truer words have ever been spoken.
....thanks for posting and thanks, Carl Sagan, for reminding us once again where we really stand in the grand scheme of things.