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Tuesday, December 07, 2010

Sirius(ly)



The night sky is replete with stars, planets, and galaxies. Charting them requires a person to understand distances in light years. Everything is far-flung in space. There are hundreds of galaxies, even more stars, and even more planets. Myriads upon myriads of frozen planets, scalding planets, moons for many of the planets, frozen or bare meteors, stars whose light has not reached the earth yet, and galaxies of shapes far different from the Milky Way.

That's a macrocosm of the little sphere we as humans travel in. Everything for us is more miniscule. Charting our movements is easy comparatively, in miles not light years. We meet a great number of people in our lifetime but far fewer than the neighborhood of galaxies and celestial bodies in space. And because humans are unique, we in our micorcosm experience the myriad of personalities and appearances exhibited in the people around us, those that are frozen and scalding and bare.

Out of all those heavenly spheres one shines more brightly than any of the others. That has to do with proximity to the earth, the phase in the life cycle of the star, the type of galaxy playing home to the star, and a number of other factors. From the Earth, Sirius is the brightest star in the sky... 8.6 light years away. And from each of our own little hubs of people, we also have a Sirius shining brightly in our skies. A number of factors play into that, personality compatibility from the galaxy of personalities around us being one of them, but always one heavenly, brilliant body appears.

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