Traveling at the speed of light, it would take 87,000 years just to get from one end of our galaxy to the other. With 100 billion stars in a typical galaxy and 100 billion galaxies in the visible universe, the vast depth of space and the multitude of worlds, stars, and galaxies is nearly impossible for our minds to truly fathom. We didn’t evolve to comprehend such large numbers, but it's an awakening experience to attempt.

The universe is an amazing place to be. We are, of course, very small, but at times when we feel overwhelmed by life here on Earth this perspective can help us to realize that our troubles are also not as big at we might have thought.

And hough we may be small, we are also amazingly intricate. An average human cell is estimated to contain 100 trillion atoms and the average human body is estimated to contain 32 trillion cells. We truly are, as Richard Feynman wrote, “a universe of atoms, an atom in the universe.”

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This is a high quality print of an original oil painting. It is printed with archival, pigmented inks on fine matte finish paper and lightly signed at the lower right. I put a lot of time into making sure my prints look great and I get lots of compliments on them!

Measures 14.25 x 12 inches plus a half inch white border. Shipped rolled and well protected inside a tube by USPS mail.

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