
For those who want more photos, here is a link to NASA's "Astronomy Picture of the Day" website:
http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/archivepix.html
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John P. Pytlak, Senior Technical Specialist
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Eastman Kodak Company
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Makes you feel...sort of insignificant...doesn't it?
(Cue: 'Galaxy Song' by Eric Idle)
Oh...alright...
GALAXY SONG
Sung by Eric Idle
From `Monty Python's The Meaning Of Life'
Whenever life gets you down, Mrs. Brown
And things seem hard or tough
And people are stupid, obnoxious or daft
And you feel that you've had quite eno-o-o-o-o-ough
Just remember that you're standing on a planet that's evolving
And revolving at nine thousand miles an hour
It's orbiting at nineteen miles a second, so it's reckoned
The sun that is the source of all our power
Now the sun, and you and me, and all the stars that we can see
Are moving at a million miles a day
In the outer spiral arm, at fourteen thousand miles an hour
Of a galaxy we call the Milky Way
Our galaxy itself contains a hundred million 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 itself is one of millions of billions
In this amazing and expanding universe
Our universe itself keeps on expanding and expanding
In all of the directions it can whiz
As fast as it can go, that's 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
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"It's not the years, honey...it's the mileage". Indiana Jones