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- [Man] Use your flashlight.
- You know, put the rest of your life in perspective,
because we are just a small part
of this wonderful Milky Way galaxy
and in a far-off corner of the whole universe.
- You feel so small, but at the same time,
you know that there's so much out there.
It's, it's, it's kind of like unexplainable,
unless you're out of here yourself,
which, you know people should come out here
and come see this for themselves,
because it's absolutely incredible.
It's just everything in, you know,
in billions of light years around us.
Pretty crazy.
- So tonight we've been looking through
the giant telescope over there.
You may not be able to see it.
and looking at deep-space objects.
- [Man] What about the stars above?
If you had to guess how many are above us now,
what's your guess?
- Uh, 3.5, uh, 3.5 million trillion kazillion.
- I'm not even gonna guess.
I'm just gonna say countless.
- (Boy) Infinity.
- So, yeah, infinity times infinity.
There you go.
- That's not possible.
- I'm just gonna say it cause I can.
- Well, no, that would be infinity squared, right?
- We're looking at Capella,
which is a binary star.
Binary stars are two stars orbiting each other.
And then that binary system is,
from our perspective, in front of a red giant.
So, um...
We call it the disco ball.
You can see it even through the video
that it's this crazy bright shining star.
And through the telescope,
it's, uh...
Like three changing, flashing colors.
- So I've been jumping out
and hopping from star party to national park
to national park to star party.
This is an amazing sense of community.
I have not met one person that said, "No.
"You can't look through my telescope."
They all say, "Come look through my telescope.
"Climb on up and take a look."
And then you're seeing galaxies
that you would never see in a small scope.
The stars (sighs) are breathtaking
and they're amazing.
I'm looking at the Milky Way right now.
And it's just incredible to be able
to navigate without any street lamps
or any moonlight, just starlight.
It's just amazing here.
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- Oh, the possibilities out here
just continuously blow you away.
You know, we learned now, for example,
that virtually around every star that we look at,
that there are planets around it.
And if you look up in the sky up here,
you know, the Milky Way just above us
with a trillion stars in and of itself.
There's a trillion opportunities for,
for life and wondrous things to beat that, you know,
just in in that small narrow thing.
And when we look well past our galaxy,
either towards the direction of Hercules
or out towards the direction of Pegasus.
When you look out the galactic plane,
all we see is galaxies,
each filled with trillions of stars.
The universe is a big place.
- Oh wow.
That is amazing.
- It's kind of like an awe feeling.
Makes you feel really small.
I don't know.
It feels like laying down,
and it's like a dream.
Then it's like you have a 360 view of everything.
It's kind of one of those things
where you can't really describe it.
You know what?
When I've tried to tell my sister about this before,
it's one of those things where you can't really
just tell her.
She really has to see it.
- This is absolutely amazing being here.
I love it.
It's really mind-blowing to see everything and relaxing.
I would wanna remind myself that...
that I have a bigger purpose to be here,
that the universe is actually really big.
It really makes you feel, not insignificant,
but just part of something bigger.
So I like, I like that feeling.
That's pretty much it.
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