Throughout history, humanity has turned to the night sky as a primary source of worldly inspiration. The cosmos is the world’s most significant compass, storyteller, calendar, and timekeeper. Sailors and wanderers from far and wide have used the stars to reach their destinations. Countless generations have used the stars to tell incredible tales and fables of the gods they worshipped. Even farmers have used stars as signals for when to seed or harvest crops.
Not only have the stars fueled our dreams and stories, but the cosmos continues to flow through our veins today. We are, quite literally, built from the debris of dying stars.
We ask the same questions they did, turning to the stars for answers. Modern astronomy is no different, analyzing the cosmos in pursuit of dark energy and the theory of everything.