Big Picture Thinking

Many of us have looked at the night sky and been awestruck by the mystery of space…and the stars. Scientists tell us that with the naked eye, we can see up to 2,500 brilliant stars shining down on us from millions of miles away.

That is pretty inspiring.

But that’s ONLY a tip of the inspiration that truly exists when we look up.

After a recent visit to the Griffith Park Observatory in Los Angeles, I learned some amazing facts. Of course, we know that our sun is the ONLY star in our solar system (which is also composed of the moon, the earth, and seven other planets). But did you know that in our galaxy there are over 400,000,000,000 (400 billion!) stars just like our sun? AND according to recent super computer calculations, our galaxy is only ONE of over 500,000,000,000 (500 billion!) galaxies in the universe!