Pic of 25 million stars (mind=nuked)

[PeZzYy]

and some people think we are the only ones living out there

[KMY]

damn.. repped..

[kurtb2080]

Simply amazing!

[iQQx]

thinking that our own galaxy has somewhere around 200-400 billion stars and our minds cannot even comprehend 25 million of them...amazing

not trying to start a debate with the following video!

[Mullahz218]

Slightly related video, this just blew my mind so much. Watch this, it's a good one.

[TheRealZen]

Amazing.

[MaKaiser]

When I really start to think about the universe my head goes into meltdown!
Wtf is going on out there !

[LAWLER89]

Welp, I guess that's that.


I think I'm going to go pass out now.

[Mattxj]

The universe is so phucking amazing. Blows my mind.

[nodnarb481]

It may contain at least as many planets, with an estimated 10 billion of those orbiting in the habitable zone of their parent stars.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milky_Way

and that is "habitable" according to our standards. Who knows what kind of life could potentially be out there..

fuark.. want second one for my background

[HitTheFloor]

Two years ago Axel Mellinger went on a mission. He set out to create a massive photographic panorama of all the stars in the night sky. He is now finished -- having created an image with something like 25 million stars in it.

you can zoom and pan around, pretty sweet.

The universe blows my fukkin mind, I can't even begin to comprehend it.

http://galaxy.phy.cmich.edu/~axel/mwpan2/

Edit: Another one

5 gigapixel image of the entire night sky, comprised of 37,000 photos:

http://media.skysurvey.org/openzoom.html

That looks like a lot more than just 25 million stars though.

[vitalcerebral]

anyone else not impressed by resolution?

[Caesar735]

durh we are da only life in the universe

god put us here


lol retards

[Cheezo]

we're **** compared to that

[Ashfrolicious]

Hmmmm.....interdesting

[MomasBoyOnline]

my father will love this, thanks op.


its amazing to think what else is out there too that we dont even know about yet. some things could exist that we dont even have the means of discovering because our technology is holding us back, even tho we are at the peak of technological advancement in the history of the world. but for example we cant travel fast enough to reach other planets or galaxies. somebody before in a thread also said that its possible that there are black holes and inside those black holes are more galaxies and inside those are even more black holes again...cant begin to imagine what will eventually be found in many years to come. its depressing to even think that none of us will be alive to witness a significant discovery such as finding another life form in another planet, which is possibly in existence right now, just like us.


look through this sites photo album: http://hubblesite.org/gallery/album/entire/pr2010013a/

[Reza21]

the question is not whether extra-terestrial life exists, but rather does it exist now? Two different life forms existing at the same time in the universe is more unlikely, given the age of the universe...if that makes sense?

[vinsthetics]

http://gigapan.com/gigapans/48492/
www.paris-26-gigapixels.com
www.harlem-13-gigapixels.com

[Petehxc]

WHAT
THE
****

Gonna save this for when im stoned

[Seldini]

Mind = nuked.

Pick an area that you think is completely dark/blank. Then zoom all the way in on it. Boom, hundreds of stars.

[Petehxc]

thinking that our own galaxy has somewhere around 200-400 billion stars and our minds cannot even comprehend 25 million of them...amazing

not trying to start a debate with the following video!

all ive got to say is wow @ that video

[ReconRon1b847077]

****in rad

[BTTB3]

the question is not whether extra-terestrial life exists, but rather does it exist now? Two different life forms existing at the same time in the universe is more unlikely, given the age of the universe...if that makes sense?

We could be looking at planets which have civilizations more advanced than us, but we wouldn't even know because what we would be seeing is already hundreds of thousands of years old.

[chillenword]

brb counting all the stars.

[Noooodlearms]

So fuking buiriful (srs)

[ProteinEnough]

Was waiting for someone to say this.

What we see here on Earth is totally different than what exists at the point in time at the location we're observing. Thousands, millions, billions of light years depending on the location. That's what blows my mind even more.

This is just approx 25million of the Milky Way Galaxy which has hundreds of billions of stars.

There is estimated hundreds of billions of galaxies in the "known" universe.

So once again...

the question is not whether extra-terestrial life exists, but rather does it exist now? Two different life forms existing at the same time in the universe is more unlikely, given the age of the universe...if that makes sense?

[Heiber]

i worked it like this:

400 billion stars estimate

4 billion=1%

1 billion=.25%

100 million=.025%

25 million=.00625%

i just google searched 25,000,000/400,000,000,000

25 000 000 / 400 000 000 000 = 6.25 × 10^-5

[bustermac]

Hold on, a 5 GIGApixel pic?


Afraid to open...will PC explode?

[iainf]

so ****ing humbling

[FeFocus]

Mind = black holed