I would actually look inwards about this. Anything that happens in the universe on a galactic scale is a process that takes many many many years. It rarely, if at all, has any consequence on a human being.

Why then does it bother you either way? 13.8 billion years, or trillions of years, a life of a human, even humanity in general, is less than a tick of a second in relation either way. We saw almost nothing with our own eyes, and we, as humanity are likely be long gone, before even the life of our own star ends.

None of this will ever have any bearing on your life, or the life of anyone that may live today.

What about it fills you with existential dread enough to keep you up at night?

Thanks for this! I and my coworkers have been looking at this for the past hour now, it’s so mesmerising!!

Yep! This composite illustrates its relative size pretty well. Andromeda would dominate the night sky.

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Very nice. Do tell us about your experiences there!

Is this true? This is a head-melter.

Someone posted a close up earlier and I thought it was a really bad low res picture. Then I realized it wasn’t noise, but individual stars.

Hard to wrap my head around to be honest.

Ok, I'm very very new to space and astronomy stuff. Are each of those shining lights stars? Each with their own solar system? I know there are an absolutely incomprehensible amount of stars in the universe. But, if this is just one section of the universe, and there are that many stars in this picture alone, it's even more mind-boggling now.

Or are the shining lights/dots different things? Sorry if this is a dumb question, I'm just trying to understand the universe a bit more and I think space in general is super, super cool. And terrifying. Definitely that too

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I see this question a lot. Are you always asking them? Lol

But seriously, I have only ever really seen black with white dots of various groupings with the naked eye.

Then realized recently I have a stimitism, which makes looking at stars without glasses very gnarly.

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This hit me when I visited a friend in South Africa, I like to think I'm fairly well versed in the stars but the first time I looked up I've never felt so utterly lost! The moon, and orion, upsidedown just confused the hell out of me for a moment.

Southern cross does look pretty in real life though, never seen it with my own eyes before.

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What kind of crack are you smoking?! It does look different with the naked eye depending on what hemisphere you're in.

https://www.planetary.org/articles/can-the-moon-be-upside-down

https://www.sciencefocus.com/science/does-the-moon-look-upside-down-in-the-southern-hemisphere/amp/

https://www.sciencealert.com/the-moon-is-upside-down-in-the-northern-southern-hemisphere-and-how-did-we-not-know-this

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It is wrong. A refractor inverts the image. If he was really in the southern hemisphere (if it even exists), it would look the same as from the northern hemisphere through bare eyes. Q.E.D.

Is this the light house in Cabo Polonio, Uruguay? Im headed to Chile and Uruguay in 2 weeks and will be in Cabo Polonio soon!

Why do the stars change on the photo when I hold my thumb on it?

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I’d guess stacked images. Might not even be shot in the same location.

It's like a cannon pointing directly at the heart of the galaxy