What's currently fascinating me

I have always been interested in Astronomy, and lately I finally started doing something about it. A couple of weeks ago I started learning the constellations (not done yet), and I can now locate Jupiter, Mars, and Saturn in the night sky. Mercury is too close to the sun to see right now (and when you can view it, it's very fleeting and tricky), and, obviously, Uranus and Neptune are just too far away. The night I first found Jupiter and its four Galilean moons (Io, Europa, Ganymede, and Callisto) in my binoculars (they are visible as 3-4 tiny dots of light right next to Jupiter, depending on their position in orbit), I was ecstatic. It was literally the coolest thing that has happened to me in a long time. Suddenly, the Solar System didn't seem so big and far away anymore. Then, a couple nights later, I was able to find the Andromeda Galaxy (the closest spiral galaxy to the Milky Way, but not the closest galaxy) in my binoculars. It's a faint disc, but you can definitely tell it's a galaxy. I also located Rho Cassiopeiae, a yellow hypergiant (one of the biggest known in the galaxy) star 11,650 light years away in the constellation, you guessed it, Cassiopeia. It's been exhibiting some violent behavior in recent decades, and astronomers concede that it either will soon, or might possibly already have, gone supernova. Eta Carina is another such star (~7,500 light years away), but it isn't viewable north of 30 degrees latitude (about Houston, TX). It is also, in low-light pollution areas, very easy to see the arm of the Milky Way Galaxy, and Galactic Center (which is not visible, at least in visible light, due to massive amounts of dust between us and it), which is in the constellation Sagittarius.

They say the Universe is a massively super-big place (duh). Scientists have looked so deep into parts of it that they have literally seen light that has been traveling towards us since near the beginning of it. Having found the Andromeda Galaxy, which is 2.5 million light years away, suddenly, the Universe seems much smaller and closer to me than ever before. This is bound to change even more, as I find more celestial objects. The awe, humility, and grandeur I feel knowing this, and other such things, really makes me feel exhilarated. I oftentimes feel like I'm in the greatest laboratory ever made, lucky to have evolved, as all humans have, to be able to appreciate this wonderful place. Like Carl Sagan might say, we are literally star dust contemplating the Universe. How marvelous.