I went to one of the beaches Oceanside tonight. The moon must be close to the earth but on the other side because the tide was extremely low. It hasn't rained out here much for months, so the humidity that clouds the view of the stars is gone. The stars were much better than they have been, more like how I expected them to be on an isolated island in the middle of the Pacific Ocean. Looking up reminded me of being in a snowstorm in the states. That's how it looked, except there were brighter "snowflakes" dotting the sky randomly.
They say, sitting on the edge of the Grand Canyon makes you feel insignificant. I'm sure it does, I've not had the experience. It cannot compare to our galaxy, to the rest of the.....universe. I'm not completely up on the celestial deal, but I'm pretty sure most of what I saw tonight .....millions of stars.....and maybe a planet or two were all in OUR galaxy. Rumor has it, that there are billions of galaxies out there. BILLIONS. For perspective...... the nearest star that I can see is allegedly 4 "light" years away. Meaning it takes 4 years for the light of that star travelling at 186,000 miles per SECOND to reach my eyes sitting on a beach on an island in the middle of the south pacific. THAT star is in our galaxy, and there are billions of galaxies out there. Billions. We are a bleep.
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