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| Stellar nursery N159, 150 light-years across, in the Large Magellanic Cloud,
one of our Milky Way's satellite galaxies. (ESA/Hubble & NASA photo)
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Can it be that the universe is ours,
Self-orphaned as we are,
Drifting to the edge of what has no end,
Molten and atomic, inheritors by birth
Of what we cannot know,
Wonder-stunned and fearful and alone,
Desperate for reason and belief,
All there is so brutal and alive?
—with a question and 2 lines by Tracy K. Smith
