“I know that, when we look up to the sky, that’s the past—seconds, minutes, years, centuries and millennia away. But that doesn’t matter. Every time I think about this, I experience the same sensation. One of awe and humility. And also of wonderment, thinking that my own existence and the existence of the people around me, the people I love, is happening. Right now, in the middle of this huge storm that is the Universe. And then, my mind and my heart explode.”

- excerpt from this article about the Pillars of Creation and their destruction 6,000 years ago.