look at this f***ing crazy shit

it's only the outer universe

Just makes you realise how big it is. Every one of them shiny little dots are other galaxies, which probably contain several different planets. Its endless

Just remember that you're standing on a planet that's evolving
And revolving at nine hundred miles an hour,
That's orbiting at nineteen miles a second, so it's reckoned,
A sun that is the source of all our power.
The sun and you and me and all the stars that we can see
Are moving at a million miles a day
In an outer spiral arm, at forty thousand miles an hour,
Of the galaxy we call the 'Milky Way'.
Our galaxy itself contains a hundred billion stars.
It's a hundred thousand light years side to side.
It bulges in the middle, sixteen thousand light years thick,
But out by us, it's just three thousand light years wide.
We're thirty thousand light years from galactic central point.
We go 'round every two hundred million years,
And our galaxy is only one of millions of billions
In this amazing and expanding universe.
The universe itself keeps on expanding and expanding
In all of the directions it can whizz
As fast as it can go, at the speed of light, you know,
Twelve million miles a minute, and that's the fastest speed there is.
So remember, when you're feeling very small and insecure,
How amazingly unlikely is your birth,
And pray that there's intelligent life somewhere up in space,
'Cause there's bugger all down here on Earth.

What site are you getting these from?

aren't they galaxies? makes it even more of a brain melter.

Originally Posted by m14red

aren't they galaxies? makes it even more of a brain melter.

f*** knows. Still huge though

There are more galaxies in the universe than there is grains of sand on earth.

I read this morning that there are an estimated 100 billion galaxies in the known universe.

Each of them contain 'f***load to the power of a squillion' stars.

Mind boggling.

Did you know that your average galaxy, is smaller than Manchester City football club?

Originally Posted by Prideofalleurope

Did you know that your average galaxy, is smaller than Manchester City football club?

and if you look closely you can see the floodlights from the council house

Originally Posted by m14red

aren't they galaxies? makes it even more of a brain melter.

Yea, each one a galaxy, containing an average of one hundred billion stars each. f***ing unreal.

I've got a book of some of the most important/spectacular pictures taken by the Hubble Space Telescope. Some really beautiful pictures in there.

It's mindboggling to think that all those things, and everything else, was created just to revolve round Kieran Richardson.

Originally Posted by The Watcher

Yea, each one a galaxy, containing an average of one hundred billion stars each. f***ing unreal.

I've got a book of some of the most important/spectacular pictures taken by the Hubble Space Telescope. Some really beautiful pictures in there.

Is there any sites with those pics on?

Originally Posted by Sloppyplop

Is there any sites with those pics on?

There are some good pics here

Wikipedia have a great page on the Hubble, well worth a read if you're interested.

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

Originally Posted by Prideofalleurope

Just makes you realise how big it is. Every one of them shiny little dots are other galaxies, which probably contain several different planets. Its endless

They're all made of cheese. If you could harvest that cheese, you'd corner the cheese market in Europe!

Originally Posted by Riverside

They're all made of cheese. If you could harvest that cheese, you'd corner the cheese market in Europe!

Europe?! Pah! You humans are so small-minded.

Get on the NASA website Sloppy.

Space is big. REALLY big. You just won't believe how vastly, hugely, mind-bogglingly big it is. I mean, you may think it's a long way down the street to the chemist, but that's just peanuts to space.

Originally Posted by 24hr Leavesey

Just remember that you're standing on a planet that's evolving
And revolving at nine hundred miles an hour,
That's orbiting at nineteen miles a second, so it's reckoned,
A sun that is the source of all our power.
The sun and you and me and all the stars that we can see
Are moving at a million miles a day
In an outer spiral arm, at forty thousand miles an hour,
Of the galaxy we call the 'Milky Way'.
Our galaxy itself contains a hundred billion stars.
It's a hundred thousand light years side to side.
It bulges in the middle, sixteen thousand light years thick,
But out by us, it's just three thousand light years wide.
We're thirty thousand light years from galactic central point.
We go 'round every two hundred million years,
And our galaxy is only one of millions of billions
In this amazing and expanding universe.
The universe itself keeps on expanding and expanding
In all of the directions it can whizz
As fast as it can go, at the speed of light, you know,
Twelve million miles a minute, and that's the fastest speed there is.
So remember, when you're feeling very small and insecure,
How amazingly unlikely is your birth,
And pray that there's intelligent life somewhere up in space,
'Cause there's bugger all down here on Earth.

Pam Ayres?

Some good links and pics on this thread already

I love space

Man

No wonder God needed to rest, creating all that in just 6 days - some kind of miracle worker - he didn't even have isotonic lucozade!!