STARDUST

 

“I am one of billions.

I am stardust gathered fleetingly into form.

I will be ungathered. The stardust will go on 

to be other things someday and I will be free.”

 

~ Laini Taylor ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from the photos of two small surface fragments from Mars (left fragment) and the Moon (right fragment), thrown into space by the impact of meteors, taken in October 2016.

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ASTRONOMY ONE O ONE

 

“I’ve loved the stars too fondly to be fearful of the night.”

 

~ Galileo Galilei~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from an original photo of an eclipse of the moon taken in March 2007 and merged with a stock image of the Milky Way.

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MARS

 

“Mars is there, waiting to be reached.”

 

~ Buzz Aldrin ~

 

Macro-photograph of a small fragment of a meteorite, composed of Martian material ejected into space billions of years ago when Mars was struck by an asteroid, taken in October 2016. From the author’s personal collection.

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