This is called the Pillars of Creation. This photo contains 270,000 stars the size of our sun, and it may not even exist anymore—there are clues that one of the stars went supernova and wiped out those gaseous superstructures 6,000 years ago. That explosion was unimaginably bright. And yet traveling at the speed of light, the evidence of that explosion won't reach us for another 1,000 years. That's how far away this is. Gosh. Makes it all seem pretty small in comparison, huh?
