Unfathomable

A telescope is capturing pictures of galaxies colliding. Sit with that. Really feel the weight of that.

Wrap your head around it as best you can.

A telescope

Is capturing

Pictures

Of GALAXIES

COLLIDING!

Galaxies filled with stars, planets, moons, asteroids, blackholes, and dust.

Galaxies filled with protons and electrons and oxygen and nitrogen.

Galaxies filled with all the potential that atoms buzzing with energy can hold,

Magnified unfathomably.

Galaxies filled with all the wonder a single imagination can fathom,

Magnified by 7.97 billion, and then some.

And they are colliding with such force that something unfathomably new is born.

And experts tell us that this is common.

These breathtaking collisions are so common it’s almost mundane to the Universe.

To Her, galaxies colliding is as common as an itch.

Another headline from another set of experts whose minds are on earth, not in the stars.

“New Study Suggests Spiders Can Dream.”

Those tiny little weavers of intricate webs that work so hard

Might take their rest just like you and I,

And as they rest their tiny little minds,

Dream dreams perhaps as big as yours and mine.

Perhaps as big as galaxies colliding.

As I take in pictures of space and spiders, I can’t help but sit in wonder and ask: How very dare I - I who am made of the same stardust as the strands of a spider’s web - Live my life timidly in a world where Galaxies dare to collide, And spiders dare to dream.

Living small in a world like that,

Well, it just seems unfathomable.

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All images below are from NASA's James Webb Space Telescope

Above: Five separate galaxies prominently in the forefront of a starfield of more distant galaxies. Four of the five in the fore are interacting with each other, three being pulled toward the fourth due to a blackhole at its center.

Above: Two galaxies mid-collision, losing their own shapes and sending stardust of various colors in all directions.

Above: Several galaxies in the foreground on a background of many others in the distance. The most prominent is a ring galaxy, created when two spiral galaxies combined. You can see the remnants of the two original galaxies distinctly in this image - the white spiral in the center and the bright outer ring surrounding it.