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Re:Hubble takes gigantic image of the Triangulum Galaxy by zackhsi on Thursday January 10, 2019 @03:01AM (#18872291)
I was having trouble making sense of the figures in the article: "three million light-years", "40 billion stars"...

So I visited Scale of the Universe [1] to try to get a grip on things. Wonderful site (and music!), but I think it had the opposite of the desired effect. I am now completely numb to any notion of trailing zeros.

[1] http://scaleofuniverse.com/

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Re:Hubble takes gigantic image of the Triangulum Galaxy by lovelearning on Thursday January 10, 2019 @08:22AM (#18873603)
Your comment reminded me of the Total Perspective Vortex - "the TPV is the only known means of crushing a man's soul" :)

[1] https://hitchhikers.fandom.com/wiki/Total_Perspective_Vortex

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