Today's NASA Image of the Day (to screen right) is that of Omega Centauri. This is but one of the new images provided by the newly refurbished Hubble Space Telescope. Imagine this -- this light has taken millions, perhaps billions of light years to travel to the point that we can "see" it.
It always amazes me how we can look at the night sky and see but a smattering of light from stars that are closest to us. Yet, when we stop to think about the sheer distances involved, they are still light years from us. Just a rough translation of the "light year" involved times the distance light can travel in one year (or what is also called an "astronomical unit") means our Universe is larger than we can possibly comprehend in our finite minds.
The next time you gaze at the night sky keep that in mind -- it puts life, and our concept of it into an amazing perspective that is difficult to fathom.
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