• eightpix@lemmy.world
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    2 hours ago

    Oh, it’s much, much, much less than that.

    0.0000416%, 1/24 millionth of the sky.

    Here, a .gif on Reddit

    It confirmed the cosmic insignificance of Earth, the profound vastness of space and time, and — at the same time — the rarity, beauty, and fragility of life. Human perception, memory, and understanding is tiny. But, it reaches toward infinity.