Song of the Day 7/13: Graham Gouldman and Brian May, “Floating in Heaven”
NASA has released the first batch of images captured by the Webb space telescope, and rock’s top astrophysicist, Brian May, has teamed up with 10cc songwriter Graham Gouldman on a new tune to celebrate the occasion.
You’ve probably seen this widely reproduced image showing scores of galaxies. What you might not have seen is how big a piece of the sky it represents: A spot the size of a grain of sand held at arm’s length. A lot of that radiation left those galaxies billions of years before our solar system formed.
I can’t see how someone could ponder that image yet still think it’s all about us.
My god, it’s full of stars.
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