Although the sun is almost a perfect sphere
and more than a million earths can fit inside,
it is considered to be an ordinary star.
Does this disappoint you?
Were you hoping it was exceptional?
There may be more stars in the universe
than there are atoms on earth. About this
I’m not sure, but I’m certain there are more
stars than grains of sand or drops of water.
The light from these stars takes millions of years
to reach the earth. When you see this light
imagine that you are looking at your own history.
Did you know asterisk means little star,
disaster, bad star?
The sun is middle-aged. Until the sixteenth
century it revolved around the earth, around us.
This means we were wrong.
It is a second generation star.
This means much of the bright material
inside it, and inside ourselves, was once
part of a larger star that no longer exists.
This means that the sun, one day, and we also,
one day, will no longer exist.
Does this make you sad?
Were you hoping we would last forever?
Consider means to observe the stars,
desire, to await the stars.
What more would you like to know?
