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Not just nervous, but straight up anxious and panicky. Thinking about the size of the universe and how small we are genuinely scares me. But at the same time, I love watching youtube videos that compare the earth to the size of everything else in space. Planest, stars, galaxies, superclusters, etc. I can never sleep afterwards.
Yup, it just makes us realize how small we are and when we look at space, we are looking back at time, as it takes ages for light to travel such vast distance (an nothing travels faster than light, 299 792 458 m /s), we see most stars as they were in the past, but in reality the present scenario is likely to be totally different. Even the nearest star after the sun, Proxima Centauri is 4 light years away while the nearest galaxy to the milky way, that is Andromeda is 2.537 million light years away. I have always been fascinated by astronomy...
when iwas a kid they said the sun would swell so large it would envelope the earth and all life would burn. it made me cry. Now , its good fucking riddance. LOL
This is an entirely awstriking scale to try to understand. It is so large you can't even understand how much you don't understand how large it is. If you're not enamoured and chilled by the majesty and loneliness of the cold reaches of space, then you're not behaving in concordance with the natural human sense of wonder.
Things that are greater than ourselves are fascinating and scary in equal measure, and for good reason.
Outer space doesn't freak me out but the thought of giant solar flares hitting Earth and burning everything up, like in the movie Knowing, does.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RDdc0-JD8Dk