Beautiful Images of the Center of the Milky Way Galaxy

Earth is located within a miniscule solar system on an outer "arm" (leg? swirl?) of the Milky Way Galaxy. Here is a picture of our Galaxy, with our Sun's relative position marked. Fibonnaci, anyone? Our galaxy is an awe-inspiring and incredibly beautiful thing to behold in, relatively speaking, "close up" photography. Take a look at the photos published on November 12, 2009 at The Daily Mail Online. I like to see images like these given broad publication because they serve as an important reminder of how ridiculous is our human self-importance (i.e., WE ARE THE CENTER OF ALL THINGS - barf!) when faced with the location of our Sun just within the framework of one midling galaxy. And then, of course, there is the entire Universe, composed of billions of galaxies...