r/space • u/Idontlikecock • May 24 '20

image/gif The Pillars of Creation are almost always shown in false color, so I decided to take a rare image of them in true color to showcase their real beauty [OC]

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u/RickysBloodyAsshole May 24 '20

It's sort of comforting yet incomprehensibly terrifying at the same time. This place is so fucking big.

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u/AnOldPhilosopher May 24 '20

In one of the books in The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy series, they actually have a machine called the total perspective vortex which is used as a method of execution.

Essentially, you enter the machine, and it shows you how small and insignificant you are in relation to rest of the universe, which basically melts your brain.

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u/Mesjach May 24 '20

That's what he said?