Tucked into a sleeping bag under the stars in the mountains of Northern California as a kid, I marveled at the Milky Way, a magical yet real cosmic river of fuzzy brightness punctuated by points of light both faint and bright. I’d count the sparkling gems in a patch of sky through towering pines, invariably losing track after just a few.
I haven’t seen a sky like that in decades. But I remember thinking I must’ve been looking at millions of stars.
Not even close!
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