Wednesday 8 July 2020

Look At The Milky Way

Genesis, PART ONE, V, 2.

"Space is not empty. Look at the Milky Way on a clear night and you will see bays in its river that are clouds of dust. The dust in such nebulas as Orion's is luminous from the light of new-born stars, and more are condensing out of it." (pp. 47-48)

Here is yet another description of the Milky Way:

bays in its rivers;
clouds of dust;
new-born stars.

Dominic Flandry visits a planet forming in a nebula. It is the same universe in different future histories.

(My computer recognizes "nebulae" but not "nebulas.")

2 comments:

S.M. Stirling said...

-Most- of space is empty; we just don't look at it as much because it's... well... empty.

Sean M. Brooks said...

Kaor, Paul and Mr. Stirling!

Paul: I just love Anderson's WE CLAIM THESE STARS. It has to be one of his best Flandry stories.

Mr. Stirling: My understanding, however, is that matter is at least very thinly spread thru out the entire cosmos.

Ad astra! Sean