I stepped outside. Midnight. Clear sky above with clouds to the side. Wind blowing all around me, gentle and cool. Orion's belt right above. Rigel, Sirius, Betelgeuse all in sight. Stars quadrillions of miles away, yet visible to the naked eye. Amazing. Never gets old.
It feels like we are in the super primitive days of our existence and everything is still ahead.
Good night 😌🌙
(that means I'll be lurking for at least 30 more mins)
oh and its closer to 1 not midnight. I must be sleepy...
It always blows my mind to think that the light you see now left those stars before dinosaurs walked this planet. And those photons spent millions and millions of years traveling through space, all to hit the back of your eyeball and tell your brain there is a star there. And that light is like a time-traveler telling you that star existed millions of years ago - it may have died out a long time ago.
It’s about a century for 100 light years. So we’re maybe a millennium or more behind for relatively close stars and some even just a decade. But yeah, we wouldn’t know it today if they are still there.
💤😴
