James-Webb Telescope

Light takes time to travel.

To some stars, you are still four years old, you are still in the backyard in the yellow sun, drinking hose water that tastes a little bit like god.

Modern telescopes puzzle piece together large million-dollar mirrors to see deeper into space,

to see the photons that haven’t reached us yet.

Often they image nebulae and supernova remnants caught in time—

burning bright clouds of gas and dust and particles pressed upon by gravity and dark matter until they will swirl together to form a protostar.

The deeper they go into space,

the deeper they go into time.

Somewhere out there, you are a baby and nothing bad has happened yet.