A speeding ticket on a deserted Vermont highway led to an unexpected encounter with a sky filled with thousands of stars. Nearly fifty years later, a simple photograph brought that moment back to life. Why have people across centuries and civilizations looked at the same Milky Way and seen such different things? Read this week’s Carosa Commentary, “Thoughts Beyond The Milky Way,” to see what the stars might reveal about ourselves.
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