Assignment 21 Alexander Reese

Right now, the earth is hurdling through space at absurd speeds. Space is one of my favorite subject areas, and one I feel is often forgotten in some senses. For example, very few people seem to consider that the earth is just a floating island in a sea of nothingness(?). Space is so busy it seems like, quasars pulsing, galaxies spinning, and stars forming/ending. Space is so full of mysteries. There is dark matter and energy, black holes, and possible extraterrestrial life. So many little things are coming together to form massive structures like Milky Way. The Milky Way is over 100,000 light years in diameter. If you don't think that's the coolest stuff, you can leave. The somewhat scary thing is that it doesn't even stop there. The Milky Way is a part of the Virgo Supercluster of galaxies. The Virgo Supercluster is over 40 million light years in diameter. Someday, we'll hopefully travel outside even this ridiculously large structure. I would personally be pretty happy to be able to travel outside of my own planet within my lifetime.