Stardust Origins
― 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
We are Stardust...
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)
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".
Images and Stories of Stardust, yes we are, at GreenPolicy360
"Star Child" (and Star Children)
- Photo of the Milky Way, "Backbone of Night", by Andrew McCarthy
We are, our Solar System is, in the 'Milky Way' galaxy ...
Our 'Milky Way' descriptor is a translation of the Latin via lactea", from the Greek γαλαξίας κύκλος (galaxías kýklos)
We are in a "milky circle". #Eco-on #PlanetCitizens
