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[โ€“] eightpix@lemmy.world 10 points 1 day ago

Oh, it's much, much, much less than that.

0.0000416%, 1/24 millionth of the sky.

Here, a .gif on Reddit

It confirmed the cosmic insignificance of Earth, the profound vastness of space and time, and โ€” at the same time โ€” the rarity, beauty, and fragility of life. Human perception, memory, and understanding is tiny. But, it reaches toward infinity.