Andromeda, Our Sister Galaxy, in 4K… The Universe is Huge [VIDEO]

The wonders of technology are giving us the clearest view of Andromeda we've ever seen. It can make a person feel small.

Watching this, I'm stunned at the beauty we find across the universe... but there's a side of me that wonders 'is this it?' I get that Andromeda is over a 2.5million light years away (that's 24,011,000,000,000,000,000 kilometers... or 24+quintillion clicks) but it seems that even 4k resolution is fuzzy.

Don't get me wrong, it's beautiful... but all of those little white dots are no longer seen as the milky space gas we thought it was. Each little dot represents a star like our sun... just billions of out-of-focus stars.

I guess sometimes it's easy to forget technology, as far as it has come, is still considerably limited these days.

Another thing I can't help but think about is how we're so spoiled by Photoshop and such editing software. With a little artistic stroke, a person can build a crisp, perfectly focused view of far off galaxies, and the beauty is so stunning we instantly buy into it.

Then the realization that 4k, as amazing as it is, is just not doing it for me anymore. A photo like this just sends me into thoughts of televisions early days. Fuzzy, unclear shapes of what your brain determines is a ball. It's that same feeling you get watching old football game clips on the web. You think to yourself, 'How did I ever watch this?' and it makes you appreciate that stupid-expensive HD package you pay for.

Regardless, as technology gets better, and it will every day... it'll lose more and more of its luster.... the only silver lining I can see is the possibility of $600 4k tv's by next Christmas.