Quantum Stuff Is So Freaky To Me. I Hate Hearing About It. It Feels Like We Have Gotten Down To The Level

“I don’t know anything with certainty, but seeing the stars makes me dream.” ― Vincent Van Gogh

In relation to the Earth, I’m not that far away from where I was born. But in relation to the Universe, I’m millions if not billions of miles away from where I was actually born, and I’ll likely never return there.

shit man this got me emotional

A Pair of Staggering Infographics Organizes 1,600 Planets Beyond Our Solar System by Color

Caldwell 103 by NASA Hubble

Nebula Images: http://nebulaimages.com/ Astronomy articles: http://astronomyisawesome.com/

I’m so fucking emotional about the 7 planets of Trappist 1. 

Imagine living so close to another habitable planet that it’s like a moon in the night sky. Imagine that for six other planets. Imagine hypothetical aliens in their equivalent of the renneisance, mapping orbits and studying the sky, starting to notice each other through their telescopes. God that’s so cool. Imagine knowing something is there so soon and slowly working towards getting to know them. 

Heck, even just being able to see your neighbour planets that close, even without life, makes the solar system so obviously devastatingly lonely by comparison.

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