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The universe we live in is a breathtakingly complex and astonishingly beautiful place. More than just the one little world we occupy, our universe is a vast region some 93 billion light-years across that contains trillions of galaxies, each of which holds hundreds of billions of stars. It is indeed “full of stars.” Some 13.7 billion years ago though, it was an infinitely small point that exploded into existence, then expanded into the vastness we see in the skies above. We weren’t there to witness that event, or the 13.69999 billion years that followed. But we are here now, and we can’t help but look up into the night sky and wonder.
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Ramer, J. (2021). Introduction to the Beauty of Space Art. In: Ramer, J., Miller, R. (eds) The Beauty of Space Art. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-49359-2_1
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