The Doorstep to Heaven is Covered in Dust

poetry in the stars 8/25/25

While the sun releases its final solar flares for summer, a different star about 25 light-years away quietly watches time tick by. Fomalhaut glows in the mouth of the fish, Piscis Austrnus, in the southern part of the autumn sky. He’s a beacon to those who seek meaning from the cosmos. Ancient Persians even considered him one of the four guardians of heaven! Making him the brightest thing in his part of space. Considered a brilliant youth at 440 million years old, yet he’s surrounded by darkness and dust. If he is guarding heaven, why is the doorstep virtually empty and covered in dirt?

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