We give this image our likes and hearts out of sheer fascination with the wonders of the Universe, but within that thing of beauty, that spectacle of light and colour, may well drift the scattered remains, the pulverised ruins, the vaporised memories of civilisations, great and small, who once lived and cherished life, who gathered and cultivated knowledge and wisdom and love and art, under the light and life-giving warmth of that star, until the moment it turned on them, and in a sudden, merciless inferno ended their existence as if they had never been, in the blink of an eye, with no one left to mourn their passing, or even know that they ever existed.
Sorry, I’ll shut up now 
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More than just a little inspired by Carl Sagan, Arthur C. Clarke, and others.
inshadowz: out of context 
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