Stardust Origins

Oh, we are made of 'stars'

Photo: Pedernal and the Milky Way by David Lancaster

Ghost Ranch, Northern New Mexico

We are Made of Stars...

“We are all stardust”

― Carl Sagan

"Our bodies are made of stardust, and the atoms that make up our bodies were forged in the hearts of stars. From the tiniest subatomic particle to the vast expanse of the universe, there's beauty and wonder everywhere. We are all connected." -- Bill Nelson, NASA Administrator, Former US Senator from Florida, March 7, 2023

In memory of Professor Leo Buscaglia and a first "Love" class our USC teacher convened, a circle on the sands of Santa Monica Beach

• https://www.azquotes.com/author/2238-Leo_Buscaglia

A counter-culture of peace & love...

We are Golden and we got to get ourselves back to the Garden...

We are stardust, (billion year old carbon), we are golden (caught in a devils bargain) and we got to get ourselves back to the garden.

-- Woodstock by Joni Mitchell

JM: "This next song is about one of these pop festivals... around the world lately... It was really a nice festival" ...

GreenPolicy360: Joni missed going but her dreams of Woodstock would become an Anthem of a Generation

Joni Mitchell, Live In-Studio, 1970 • https://m.youtube.com/watch?feature=share&v=cRjQCvfcXn0

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You are looking at over 140,000 points of light, every one a galaxy containing billions of stars, trillions of planets...

Photo credit: Herschel Space Observatory / ESA - European Space Agency

Each dot indicates the position of a galaxy... a map of 'a slice' of the universe...

Looking out at 1.2 million galaxies...

Looking back into our origins...

Photo credit: Sloan Digital Sky Survey

The Stardust Revolution: The New Story of Our Origin in the Stars

September 2012

by Jacob Berkowitz (Author)

• http://www.amazon.com/The-Stardust-Revolution-Story-Origin/dp/1616145498

This book is a revolution of scientific understanding but even more-so it is a journey of us; a journey which follows our stupendous genealogy and ecological relationship with the cosmos. This genealogy is not of the conventional kind, that of genetic information which connects all known life of all epochs together on an almost personal level. The type of genealogy the author uses is one which is much more fundamental and arguably more personal. This is a genealogy of our most foundational constituents, it is the very bonds of our nature which connects us with almost every facet of the cosmos. This node of connectivity between us and the cosmos is of course the atom. Anyone with a modicum of knowledge knows of the periodic table, and that its table consists of what make you, I and 4% of the observable universe. Seldom do people know how they came to be or even know that they were not always around in the abundance as they are today. In the words of Neil degrass Tyson " we can hardly comprehend the essence of anything without knowing where it came from".

• https://greenpolicy360.net/w/File:We_are_made_of_star_stuff_--_carl_sagan.jpg

Images and Stories of Stardust, yes we are, at GreenPolicy360

"Star Child" (and Star Children)

• https://greenpolicy360.net/w/File:Douglas_Trumbull_vfx_2001_-_Star_Child.png

Stardust @GreenPolicy360

• https://vimeo.com/58626695

Photo of the Milky Way, "Backbone of Night", by Andrew McCarthy

Star Dust ... http://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/May_gods_love_be_with_you

We are, our Solar System is, in the 'Milky Way' galaxy....

'Milky Way' is a translation of the Latin via lactea, from the Greek γαλαξίας κύκλος (galaxías kýklos)

We are in a "milky circle"..... #Eco-on #PlanetCitizens