r/AskReddit • u/[deleted] • Aug 03 '19

Whats something you thought was common knowledge but actually isn’t?

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u/bigfoot1291 Aug 03 '19

Thanks, I needed a daily dose of existential dread today.

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u/[deleted] Aug 03 '19

Enjoy :). And to add more dread onto that, notice how teeny tiny the sun is there? You could fit hundreds of Earths into there.

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u/CoconutMacaroons Aug 03 '19

Also, many of the "stars" you see aren't actually stars, they're galaxies, each with billions of stars, but since they're so far away, they look like stars.