“Here are stars in uncountable numbers, each (perhaps) warming Earths unseen, other Earths teeming with other life. Here are galaxies where stars by the hundreds of billions are bom in gassy nebulas and die in violence. Here are galaxies arrayed in knots and streamers across light-years, across billions of light-years, like motes of dust dancing in window light, worlds and worlds without end, reaching at last back to that singular moment when all that now exists came to be in a blinding flash of pure creation.”
