Yesterday was the shortest day of the year. Astronomy is a science foreign to me. One of my secret wishes has been to visit a planetarium where someone would point out the constellations. A celestial universe exists above, and most of us know very little about what's all up there.
Until this morning, didn't realize that it would take a modern spacecraft 450 million years to travel to the center of our galaxy. This galaxy is our home, encompassing planet Earth, our solar system and billions upon billions of stars and planets.
When we look up into the sky at night from any point on Earth, there are some 100-400 billion stars above. If nothing else, these facts and figures scream how immeasurably small we are. This puts into perspective my thinking process and tells me how ridiculous it is to worry, fret and allow human emotions to mess with my alive time.
Yup, there are close to 8 billion of us on that one little dot.
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