18 pictures show how profoundly large our cosmos is
Cosmically, humanity is a mere drop in the Universe’s vast ocean. This image, taken from the International Space Station by astronaut Karen Nyberg in 2013, shows the two largest islands on the southern part of the Mascarene Plateau: Réunion, in the foreground, and Mauritius, partially covered by clouds. To see a human on Earth from the altitude of the ISS, a telescope the size of Hubble would be…
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