In addition to the hundreds or even thousands of individual galaxies that make up these gigantic objects, enormous amounts of hot gas envelope galaxy clusters.
There were also large numbers of wounded among the Dutch fleet, including Rear-Admirals Bloys van Treslong and Story; one of the few Dutch officers to escape injury or death was De Winter himself, who later commented "It is a matter of marvel that two such gigantic objects as Admiral Duncan and myself should have escaped the general carnage of this day".
If you've misplaced your TV's remote control one too many times, then I might suggest firmly attaching it to a gigantic anvil-like object via an unnecessarily thick length of chain.
In the field of astronomy in the mid-60s, quasars were very sexy objects – gigantic, star-like masses about which little was known.
Here we have a gigantic and complex physical object that was consciously created by humans motivated by the desire to obtain, in Randall's words, "a more comprehensive picture of the nature of reality".
There are bigger cliffs on Baffin Island and smaller but steeper cliffs elsewhere, but no cliff anywhere combines such unrelenting steepness, glassy smoothness and inspiring immensity — horizontal as well as vertical — with a quality of such coherent unity, of being a single solid object so gigantic as to reliably induce a tingling awareness of creation's incomprehensible mystery.
I also engage with his claim that open-air experiments constitute spaces in which scientists can avoid seeing the world as "Nature"—a gigantic collection of inert objects that experts sense they have to bring into order on their own.
The work consists, first, of a corpus of thirty-three framed photographs and two slide projections of more than one hundred images, all made by the artist (Ship of Fools); second, it contains a gigantic collection of various objects, graphic images, postcards, and prints that the artist purchased, mostly online (The Dockers' Museum).
