How about some mind-staggering cosmic stuff

[packman]

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"This is one slice through the map of the large-scale structure of the Universe from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey and its Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey. Each dot in this picture indicates the position of a galaxy 6 billion years into the past. The image covers about 1/20th of the sky, a slice of the Universe 6 billion light-years wide, 4.5 billion light-years high, and 500 million light-years thick. Color indicates distance from Earth, ranging from yellow on the near side of the slice to purple on the far side. Galaxies are highly clustered, revealing superclusters and voids whose presence is seeded in the first fraction of a second after the Big Bang. This image contains 48,741 galaxies, about 3% of the full survey dataset. Grey patches are small regions without survey data."

More at:

http://www.popsci.com/

[ret5hd]

1. I think I see the letter "C". Does that mean I am or am not colorblind?

[clarice]

2. Staggering !!! nt

[clarice]

3. One of my favs.....

Cosmic Birth by Nondual on Newgrounds

[clarice]

4. Packman...found this just for you....cosmic wallpapers

They have many more cool ones if you want to visit website

[packman]

5. Thanks - beautiful cosmic masterpieces

Something about the power of the universe, its vastness and its glory makes me realize things we have to deal with really aren't that important. Then I go into the backyard and watch the ants struggle with their lives - Yang and Yin

[clarice]

6. OK stargazer.... In your contemplation of the stars...have you ever seen....

anything that you umm....couldn't quite identify? At the risk of others scoffing at you...
please feel free to DU mail me if you wish.

[aidbo]

7. The WMAP data is what always gets me.

[lunatica]

8. And we think we're soooo important

[Avalux]

9. Incredible, isn't it? Did you know we can only explain 5% of the universe?

The vast majority is made of dark matter and dark energy; things we cannot measure by physical means (physics). Even though we have made tremendous strides in explaining our world and universe - if we can't see, hear, touch, taste or smell it - we have concluded nothing is there.

Now the challenge - somehow figuring out what it is exactly that makes up 95% of the universe.

[lastlib]

10. Such a vast, awesome Universe around us!

(makes the possibility of genital herpes seem pretty trivial, doesn't it? )