First Published 2019
Starlight
Item by The Energy Syndicate
The cloudless night sky reveals the stars around us. Visible to the naked eye, the light has travelled to us from within our Galaxy – across unfathomable distances from other galaxies and cosmic events.
Pick a single star in the night sky and imagine this: The light you see has information in it and whether you are looking at it or not, it is still ending its photonic journey, hitting you. Hold your hand up to the star and the light will end its journey fractionally earlier after maybe hundreds of millions of years. That starlight however isn’t just where you are – it is radiant, spreading out from its source in all directions filling the space (and time) with its light.
There are trillions upon trillions of stars in what we describe as the observable Universe. To us, Space appears to be a vast sea of dark punctuated by stars. The vast sea of ‘dark’ or emptiness is in fact bursting with starlight – colliding oceans with individual aspects significant to their origin but collectively it is a wondrous sea.
