I’ve been thinking about the stars. I’d not paid much attention to these sparkly night time lights until recently. Sure I found them astounding, perhaps even overwhelming, but I’d never really pondered them. And then I went on a night walk with friends whilst away earlier this month and the stars were so brilliant in the inky night sky. And there were lots of them. It’s only when you get away from the artificial lights that you can really get a true picture of the massive span of these natural luminosities. A bit like life.

So my friend informed me that each star, everyone one of these brilliant little lights, is actually a similar body to our sun. A big ball of hot hot heat. That’s probably old time news for the most of you, but I’d never realised this. That the sun that warms us, the sun that allows us to eat, that provides us with a healthy balance, that also allows us to make earthly rotations and upholds our very planet is a star. Wow.

The same night my friend revealed to me another little bit of astronomical trivia. We were watching for shooting stars when what I initially thought was a shooting star caught my eye. This was in fact not a piece of meteor entering our atmosphere, leaving a burning trail in its wake, but a satellite on its course of orbit. In the time we sat there I noticed lots of these lit up machines on their geometrical course. Apparently there are a hell of a lot of them put up by governments and phone companies, etc. Again, this is probably nothing new to you. But it surprised me that the clear night sky is actually littered with our technological rubbish (be it currently in use or not). Anyway, I’m not sure of the long term affects of our galactic spacefill, but I am sure that someone will find out sooner or later and we’ll be sad because the damage will be irreparable.