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Looking back 27,000 years

10 Things:

 

That's about how far in light years we are from the hub of our galaxy, the Milky Way. Our sun is one of 200 billion stars in this galaxy. That's more than 30 times the population of this planet.

 

Does that make us insignificant? No, it just makes me feel awed and surprisingly, happy.

 

And, I gotta say, film rocks for astrophotography!

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Uploaded on July 6, 2007
Taken on July 5, 2007