The Stars Could Help Unify Us: In a time of social distancing, looking to the skies might bring people closer together As an astronomer, I am accustomed to observing the cosmos in quiet places.
But since the start of self-isolation, it’s so quiet that my own heartbeat is the only background noise. I observe galaxies in the deep universe, in places so far away that their light takes billions of years to reach our eyes.
I am used to contemplating this immensity and seeing how little our planet seems in comparison. I am used to observing the past through the lens of the Hubble Telescope and seeing galaxies formed when the universe was an infant.
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