In the wake of the news about the nearly imperceptible gravitational ripples that have absolutely rocked the scientific community, you may have found it difficult to wrap your head around how jarringly significant the findings are. To stop you from hurting your brain too much, I've thrown together a list that's much easier to understand –– a list of images that show just how insignificant Earth is in the grand, intergalactic scheme of things. Just for fun, let's kick it off with a classic:

1. The Pale Blue Dot

Ah, yes. The quintessential "Hey look out how small we are" photo, taken all the way from Neptune. You may want to wipe your computer screen carefully before looking for Earth in this photo, because a well-placed speck of dust could cover it up entirely.

2. The Pillars of Creation

The pillar on the far left of these three beautiful towers of stardust are 37.8 trillion kilometers tall. Or, to put it in completely mind-boggling perspective, the height of that stellar monument is 943,231,441 times the circumference of Earth.

3. The Earth is definitely one of the runts of our Solar System

Good luck fighting for scraps of food at the metaphorical galactic table, Earth.

4. Earth versus Sun

Just to distill a comparison from the photo above, here's the Earth in relation to the Sun. You know how many Earths could fit inside the Sun? 1.3 million

5. At least the Sun is big, right?

Wrong.

6. This one is self-explanatory

In this photo, the speck of dust on your computer screen could obscure an entire galaxy. Oh, and with the naked eye, this part of the universe looks completely empty from Earth.

7. This cloud:

Think our oceans are impossibly vast? The cloud pictured in this photo holds 140 trillion times more water than the Earth's oceans. Maybe if we included all the water in lakes, rivers, creeks, ponds and kitchen sinks, this cloud would just hold 139 trillion times more water than the entire Earth holds.

8. Even the stars we see are insignificant

Just let that soak in for a second. All we can see resides in that yellow circle. Which resides in a galaxy. Which, as you saw a few photos up, is as small as a speck of dust when compared to just a small patch of our universe.

9. At least Mars is close to us!

So close, yet so far. Warning –– you may need to squint to even find Earth in this photo of Mars' horizon.

10. A consolation photo –– Earth as seen from the Moon

This is the biggest we've seen Earth throughout this entire list!

11. What might actually exist in the star-filled sky we see every night

Yep, that's right. Nothing. We are so far away from most stars that they may not even exist anymore, because their light takes an inconceivably long time to reach Earth. Next time you're laying beneath the stars with your lover, just think about that, and how insignificant the Earth iS –– and just see how significant and romantic you're feeling after you entertain those thoughts for awhile!