The Unnamed Star

The Unnamed Star

Just a twinkle in the sky

Photo by NASA Hubble Space Telescope on Unsplash

In a galaxy light-years away exists an unnamed star. To us on Earth, it has no worth, we worship our own Sun.

It isn’t Andromeda or Alpha Centauri, or part of a constellation that’s known to you or I.

But within its little galaxy the unnamed star’s the star, as important as is the Sun in this Milky Way of ours.

Circling this most distant star, unnamed planets are in orbit. Some may even harbour life due to its light and warmth.

If other lifeforms do exist across the universe, perhaps this is the galaxy where evolution happened first.

I doubt we’ll send a rocket to the far reaches of space. The far ends of the Milky Way are still beyond our range.

Just a tiny speck of light amidst the vast night sky, though every star should have a name. So let’s call it Pluton 5.

Even when it’s dead and gone, a big black hole in space, its sparkling light will still shine on. Light years, our eyes to grace.

But perhaps, our star, we call the Sun may be the first to die, all life on Earth becomes extinct – just a twinkle in the sky.

2026 © John Hansen: All rights reserved. Australian writer

Photo by NASA Hubble Space Telescope on Unsplash

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