“The universe is a pretty big place. If it’s just us, seems like an awful waste of space” – Carl Sagan 🌌 The Milky Way arching over the Sky Train at Lough Boora, Co. Offaly

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  2. The Milky Way imaged Thursday 20/4/23 . For more of my work check out my Insta tag at “Irishskies”

    Imaged details –

    Sky 6 x 90s
    24mm , f4 , ISO 800 Tracked with iOptron Skyguider Pro
    Foreground 6 x 180s

    Nikon D750

  3. Fantastic pic, and any post quoting Sagan gets an upvote, *This Demon Haunted World* should be required reading globally

  4. “Two possibilities exist: either we are alone in the Universe or we are not. Both are equally terrifying.”

    Arthur C. Clarke

  11. There are as many stars in the galaxy as grains of sand on all beaches on the earth. There are as many galaxies in the universe as grains of sand on all the beaches on the earth. It is remarkably egotistical of us to think we are the only intelligent life among all those grains. But now that same scale works against us. The likelihood of us detecting, let alone meeting, (let alone being abducted by) aliens is akin to the chance that in the next hour a bactaria on a grain of sand in Tramore will meet a bactaria currently on a grain of sand on Bondi beach.

  15. I just finished reading Andy Weir’s Project Hail Mary. Makes you wonder what is out there and what would need to happen in the galaxy for two life forms to ever meet each other.

    Edit… And I love your photo.

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