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