Saturday, January 10, 2015

THE NIGHT SKY


I miss the night sky where I grew up on the south coast of Oregon.  In the spring I would help my dad check the sprinklers on the cranberries when the temperature dropped below freezing.  Often it happened about 3:00 in the morning.  It was an incredible sight.  Our milky way galaxy is approximately 100,000 light years across.  However, the nearest star is a little over 4 light years away.  If you left earth in a commercial jet at 500 mph, it would take over five million years just to get there.  Do you feel small yet?