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Cybor_wak t1_j980ft8 wrote

Reply to comment by Emerald_Rain4 in The Tadpole galaxy by Hubble, Its eye-catching tail is about 280,000 light-years long. Also known as UGC 10214 and Arp 188, it is a disrupted barred spiral galaxy located 420 million light-years from Earth in the northern constellation Draco. Credit Image: NASA/ESA/HST/STScI. by Davicho77

Its unimaginable. Everything outside the tadpole is another galaxy. And this is just a tiny spec of the sky around us. Our brains can’t comprehend it.

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de_hell t1_j98pfav wrote

Theres gotta be some kind of life out there. It would be a type of life that our brains really wouldn’t be able to comprehend it.

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escalibur t1_j9a53gq wrote

I’m having a hard time comprehending 420 million light years distance.

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Tobs1414 t1_j9a7oyz wrote

Yeah, this image is technically hundreds of millions of years old. It doesn’t look anything like this now.

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imsahoamtiskaw t1_j9b0ret wrote

Or maybe it does. You never know how long the makeup of that galaxy will last. Sephora could never.

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danielravennest t1_j9bxvkd wrote

When light left this galaxy heading our way, the first land animals were just coming out of the oceans. Distance = Time.

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SeriousPuppet t1_j9bhw21 wrote

I agree. There are so many stars and planets that there has to be at least a few other planets with life. Perhaps many thousands or millions. But at least a few. We can't be the only one in the entire universe.

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de_hell t1_j9bikgq wrote

Even if God created this universe and we are the only ones in this colosally big universe, it would be such a waste of all that space lol.

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