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The Universe

Hi there! So today I'm going to share a random fact about me, which is: I just love looking at pictures of the universe! For some reason it just makes me feel calm and infinite! Although I believe that the universe must stop at dome point and that there is something even bigger than the universe, I also believe that the universe is so big that we will never know for sure if the universe really is infinite. As you might have read in The Fault In Our Stars by John Green, there is an infinite series of numbers between 0 and 1: 0,1 0,01 etc. and there is an even bigger series of numbers between 0 and 2. But somewhere after millions and millions of numbers, there must be an end to all these numbers, because another number also exists. After 2 comes three, so also after 2,999999999999999. And yes, it's true, some infinities are bigger than others, but are things really infinite?

Oh I need to stop rambling, you get me right? You don't have to agree, but I hope that you get why I think this way! Where was I, oh yeah the universe calms  me. I just think that the universe is a very interesting mystery that has to be solved, but you still need to find a little piece of that information before you can actually solve it. You don't know what may still be undiscovered, how many interesting and new things there still are! Even though oblivion is one of my greatest fears and the unknown just scares me to death, I don't feel scared when I look up at the sky or look at a picture taken by the Hubble-telescope.

I don't know why, but the universe also attracts me, I feel like I need to go there. To the places you see pictures of, to those beautiful stars that form nebulas. Like I need to be there when a star dies and forms a supernova or when a star gets born.

 I hope I'm not the only one who feels like this and you don't think I'm crazy right now, but I just felt like sharing this with you!

For now, I'll just leave you with a pretty picture of the Coyote Head Nebula!
Good night!

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