Supernovae

Here’s the truth: the Sun isn’t moving (well, not in the way you think). It’s chilling in the center of the solar system, minding its own business. WE, the Earth, are the ones spinning around like a giant cosmic fidget spinner.

The terms *sunrise* and *sunset* are leftover from the old days when people thought the Earth was the center of the universe and everything revolved around us. (Humans love being the main character, don’t we?) Even though we now know the Sun’s the real star of the show, we still use these terms because, well, they’re easy to say and make sense when you’re standing on Earth

Look again at that dot. That's here. That's home. That's us. On it everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever was, lived out their lives. The aggregate of our joy and suffering, thousands of confident religions, ideologies, and economic doctrines, every hunter and forager, every hero and coward, every creator and destroyer of civilization, every king and peasant, every young couple in love, every mother and father, hopeful child, inventor and explorer, every teacher of morals, every corrupt politician, every "superstar," every "supreme leader," every saint and sinner in the history of our species lived there--on a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam.