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This is a video of sorts of different things in the Milky Way galaxy and their size in relation to the Earth.

Earth in True Perspective

This contains some of the same images, though not in video form. It also has images of distant galaxies that were captured by the Hubble Space Telescope.

That's really cool. I've always enjoyed astronomy.

Excellent vantage point as to were we are in the universe.

It really brings home how utterly tiny and insignificant we humans are......

Yet at the same time, I can't help but smile because it's

"Fantastic!!!"

There is absolutely no way we are alone in the universe, and this only reinforces that belief for me and also my absolute certainty in Atheism.

I went to a "Star Party" as part of an astronomy class I took in college. The college, which was in a semi-rural area at the time, turned off all the lights on the football field, making it very dark, and local amateur astronomers brought their telescopes and set them up.

I was impressed by the fact that I could actually see all those moons around Jupiter, plus the rings of Saturn. There was still too much light pollution to really see a lot of the stars, and one of the astronomers told me that there wasn't much point in looking at Venus through the telescope, because it still looked like a star.

There's an observatory at Mt. Palomar, near San Diego. My dad took me there a couple of times when I was a teenager. It's only open during daylight hours, so we just saw photos.

A friend and I went to Griffith Park in L.A. once, and we wanted to see the observatory, but it was closed that day, so we went hiking instead. (We saw another kind of star on the trail.) Ordinarily, Griffith Observatory stays open until 10 PM, so you can actually use the public telescopes to see things (especially in the winter, when the sun sets early).