As the picture of the universe is exposed in our eyes we can see in it the development of our own existence.
For as we are made of the same essential “stuff” of the stars, we are related, backwards in time to the big bang.
Five billion years ago a mass of cloud and gas collapsed into a star system.
Possibly created by the force of this explosion, dust and debris circled around and collected into larger and larger celestial bodies, in this the planets were formed. Our own earth went through its turbulent and colorful metamorphosis from black to gray, red to white, and finally the verdant green that we still know today five billion years later, the early civilizations witnessed the true drama of the night sky and deduced truthfully that we are indeed captains of our own spaceship. The spaceship earth.
Did you know that just a few million years after our own earth was formed, it is believed that there was a great collision from an astronomical body the size of mars, like a city bus running into the post office, mail went spilling out around the building and was caught in the gravity of the deeply injured, but still much larger earth body, and that this debris formed over time what we know of today as the moon. That my friends is some truly ancient cheese.