WE ARE SO SMALL

AS WE ALL GO ABOUT OUR DAY-TO-DAY ROUTINES, WE MAY THINK HOW LARGE, PERHAPS EVEN INSURMOUNTABLE, OUR PROBLEMS ARE, HOW ENORMOUS THE DIFFICULTIES WE ALL FACE, HOW HEAVY OUR LOADS ARE THAT WE ALL CARRY.

I JUST WANTED TO BREAK FROM THE "NORM" AND GIFT YOU ALL WITH SOME MAGNIFICENT PHOTOS THAT MAY SHOW YOU HOW SMALL WE ARE, HOW FRAGILE AND SMALL, COMPARED TO THE VAST UNIVERSE.

SOME OF THESE PHOTOS SHOW CATACLYSMIC EVENTS UNFOLDING "OUT THERE", FAR BEYOND WHERE WE ARE YET CAPABLE OF GOING, BUT LOOK ALSO AT THE PERFECTION THAT REMAINS, THE BEAUTY THAT EXISTS AMIDST THE "CHAOS".

AS WE FACE ANOTHER DAY, I HOPE WE CAN JUST PAUSE A FEW MOMENTS AND SEE THESE MAGNIFICENT HUBBLE PHOTOS TOGETHER, JUST SLOW DOWN BRIEFLY AND REFLECT ON HOW SMALL WE ARE IN THIS EXPANSIVE, UNFATHOMABLE SPACE THROUGH WHICH WE ALL HURTLE, ALL OF US MERELY PASSENGERS ON "SPACESHIP EARTH".

ALL THE VERY BEST TO EACH OF YOU, FELLOW TRAVELERS.
I SINCERELY HOPE THAT YOU ARE WELL.


                          [Please click on each image to see it very much larger]

                     (Green "goblin" clouds, phantoms presumed left behind by quasars)

                        (Taken while Hubble was watching star clusters merge)

                                          (Hubble finds a supernova companion)

                                                      (Lagoon Nebula)

                                                    (Helix Nebula in infrared)

                                                 (The Lagoon Nebula)

                                                     (Cat's Eye Nebula)

                                                      (The Ant Nebula)

                                                   ( Horse head nebula)

                                                 (The Hourglass Nebula)

                                             ( A sweeping "deep field image)



[FOR AN ENTIRE GALLERY OF HUBBLE TELESCOPE PHOTOS, JUST GO HERE:
http://hubblesite.org/gallery/album/ ]


For a beautiful Youtube video, visit here: https://youtu.be/jhEBKr7rV18