@kristenwesberti
We once believed Earth was the center of everything.
Now we know: our planet is an average rocky world orbiting an unremarkable star among ~200 billion in the Milky Way alone, which is just one of ~2 trillion galaxies.
The observable universe contains roughly 10²⁴–10²⁵ stars — a scale so immense that the entire human population could fit on a single grain of sand repeated across every beach on Earth.We are not the main characters. We are, at best, an extremely recent and microscopically small footnote in a 13.8-billion-year-old story that is still being written.https://www.planetary.org/worlds/cosmic-address
https://www.space.com/25303-how-many-stars-are-in-the-milky-way.html
https://arxiv.org/abs/1605.04603 (Hubble deep field galaxy count)
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