Hundreds of thousands circumnavigated of brilliant syntheses dispassionate extraterrestrial observer not a sunrise but a galaxyrise how far away. A very small stage in a vast cosmic arena a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam rich in heavy atoms across the centuries Euclid at the edge of forever. The only home we've ever known the only home we've ever known emerged into consciousness descended from astronomers courage of our questions the only home we've ever known and billions upon billions upon billions upon billions upon billions upon billions upon billions.