galaxies, each containing tens of billions of stars.”
This simple quote about the amount of galaxies that can be counted using a sixteen-inch telescope struck me with awe. When you look at the sky on a clear night, you can see what appears to be a vast amount of stars. The sky that you are looking at seems so large from where you are standing. The building that you are standing next to may even seem extremely large, and it is only a tiny fraction of the portion of the sky that you are looking at above you. The portion of the sky and the seemingly large amount of stars that are within your sight are just a tiny fraction of the amount of stars that exist in our galaxy (each of which is larger than the very planet that we live on), and according to this article, there are about 75,000 of these within the view of a sixteen inch telescope. I have never felt so small.
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