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giant nuclear furnaces so far away their light outlives the senders
means The luminous balls of hot plasma scattered across the night sky, each one a sun burning by nuclear fusion, often used loosely for anything dazzling or famous.
from From Old English 'steorra,' part of a vast family that runs through Germanic 'sternô' all the way back to the Proto-Indo-European root '*h₂stḗr.' That same ancient root scattered its light across many tongues — a likely cousin of Latin 'stella' and Greek 'astēr' (which gave us 'astronomy' and 'asterisk'), and possibly tied to a verb meaning 'to strew' or 'spread out,' as if the stars were grains flung across the dark.
- time travel
- you see them as they were, not as they are
- made of you
- your atoms were forged inside dead ones
- counting odds
- more stars exist than grains of sand on Earth
- silent giants
- the Sun is an average, unremarkable one
- loud deaths
- some explode brighter than entire galaxies
sirius — brightest star in night sky at magnitude -1.46, 8.6 light-years from earth
betelgeuse — red supergiant in orion constellation, 700 times larger than the sun
proxima centauri — closest star to our sun at 4.24 light-years away
polaris — north star used for navigation, located above earth's north pole