CelticBear’s Musings

Read this amazing post of on Bad Astronomer today:

♦ Spiraling tentacles of galactic doom!

If you don’t think much about it, you look at that and go, “Cool, pretty. Interesting.” It kind of looks like eddies of foam in a pond or on the beach.
But think about the fact that the tendril of stretched galactic arm involves countless solar systems! Entire systems of stars and planets and moons, so far apart from each other that from each star involved the next closest one is just another bright speck in the sky–and they’re being blown and stretched through the cosmos my awesomely gihugic, incomprehensibly large intergalactic forces!
Whoa
(Certainly makes me think, once again and as always, of this amazing video:
This, THIS Is What I am Talking About!)