Contemplations Under the Night Sky. by Milota Sidorova

We all know that the Universe is in constant movement, however, the scale of it, is for a human being, rather unimaginable. We know about Solar System movements and we know something about life and death of stars. Theory of black hole is not completely unknown to us. It may be far from your daily deeds and movements. Let’s just sit in perfect dark and look upon the night sky. Except of romantic feelings, it’s a performance, spectacular of massive size. Did you know that every second the stars are running towards each other? Some of them crash, some die, some create in such movement. Of course, you can’t see it. The performance has different timing. But w! hen you close your eyes, you can feel the speed, the mass and the purity of natural laws, heading that enormous space. Did you know that our galaxy, known as Milky Way is flying through the space? It’s running towards the nearest big galaxy Andromeda with 75 miles per second. Don’t you feel the movement? What about Andromeda? Scientists have recently published the finding that Andromeda was cannibal like galaxy. Unlike the black hole that may be possibly eating galaxies from inside, Andromeda is pulling near stars, galaxies and space mass close to its center. Then the performance begins. The stars are crushed and torn apart. Unlike black hole, Andromeda doesn’t “eat” their bodies, it just transforms their positions. So, right now, above our heads we’re having enormous power rearranging the sky map. Wonderful! And the Milky Way is slowly taking its turn. Both galaxies are more than 2.5 million light years away. A light year is about 5.9! trillion miles. Take your time to imagine such measures. The! n, quiet ly, in deep awe, look up once again, and think about the gift of life, we’ve been given for a little while.

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