Stars

Writing writing. Trying to find something to write about. With school starting back up, I feel like I should take more time to update this, so here I am.

I wonder what it's like among the stars

Racing through the lights and swinging around mars

With all that beauty and mystery

Lights shining back through history

Did you know that some of the stars you see don't exist anymore? I find that just astounding. Because of how far away the stars are, the light they give off takes a lot of time to reach the earth, perhaps thousands upon thousands of years. This means that many of those stars may no longer exist, and we might not notice it for another hundred years! That also means that we may see more and more stars as time passes, because some stars may be so far away that the light still hasn't reached us.

It's a simple thing, but something that makes me wonder at God's creation. He made the universe greater than even the brightest minds of our race put together can understand. 

P.S. Random tidbit I found while checking my facts: The light from the sun is approx 8.3 minutes old when it reaches us. So we are actually seeing the sun as it was 8.3 minutes in the past. Craziness!