Among other things, Bob Hughes saw fit to write:

> Funny how these deep space pictures always make me feel like
> we're all just a tiny part of some kind of pondwater microbe.

I got the strongest "tinyness" feeling with a photograph of the Moon
occulting Mars. Somehow, it gave me some sense of scale seeing the planet
so small behind our well-known moon... That's *far* away, I thought. I
don't get the same feeling with galaxies, you know they're made of billions
of stars, but you don't really see them.

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