When’s the last time you looked up at the stars?

Astronomer Kareem El-Badry created a new plot this week (February 22, 2021) of more than a million pairs of binary stars (double stars orbiting a common centre of gravity).  You can watch the 3D atlas here.

It’s astounding to think about how many stars there are in our sky – let alone our solar system, galaxy, and universe!

We don’t think about them much, because we cannot always see them.

And even when they’re visible, we aren’t always paying attention.  We’re too busy looking down at our phones.  Or driving our cars. Or turning on the lights.

When’s the last time you looked up at the stars?