A kid at the local library's star party asked me a question that made my night

I was showing some of my Milky Way shots from Joshua Tree last year at a public viewing event. A boy named Leo, maybe 10 years old, pointed at a photo and asked, 'How do you know which little dot is a star and which one is a whole other galaxy?' It was such a smart, simple question that made me stop and really think about the scale of what we're looking at. I ended up showing him how to spot the Andromeda Galaxy in one of my wider shots. What's a question someone has asked you about your photos that made you see them differently?

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hannah3856d ago

Actually, that's a galaxy, not a star. The Andromeda Galaxy is the one big fuzzy spot you can see with your eyes, not a dot in a photo. It's cool that the question made you think about scale, though.

eric_thompson6d ago

Yeah, it's wild how often we get the scale of things wrong in daily life too. Makes you wonder what else we're seeing but not really seeing, right?