An Interesting Image Comparison
I was imaging the photosphere of the sun one morning and noticed that a sunspot eerily resembled some skin cancer that I had around that time. The sunspot was approximately twice the length of the diameter of Earth. My skin cancer was only about 8mm in length. Additionally, I was seeing a shocking similarity between granules on the surface of the sun's photosphere (each approximately 1000 miles across) and the speckled UV damage of my skin (approximately 1-2mm each)! I've always noticed that, in many ways, the astronomical world of vast and infinite space resembles the microscopic world. Shapes, networks and structure are comparable. Both are equally vast but the scale is mind-bogglingly different. When I see how vast space really is, it has always made me a little queasy and gives me the heebie-jeebies! This incredibly vast difference in scale between space and humans is stuff I've actually had nightmares about since very early childhood. Actually, my earliest