Into Perspective

My dear friend Su Chen posted a note of encouragement to me... :) (Thanks!!) In it, she quotes the lyrics of a song - "God of wonders, beyond our galaxy"...

In yesterday's news, NASA reported that the Hubble Space Telescope has captured the most detailed image of a spiral galaxy. Similar to our own Milky Way galaxy, the Pinwheel galaxy (or Messier 101) is estimated to contain about 1 trillion stars... that's about 1,000,000,000,000 stars. Of course, I do not want to take the beauty out of it all with too much technical detail. Let's just savour its beauty and confounding extravagance...

... and it does put our lives (including all our problems and anxieties) into perspective...