In an era of faster-moving technology, vehicles and minds, looking up might be one of the simplest ways to humble ourselves in this hyper-digital world.
As long as there is something to see. Light pollution from cities like Tacoma can make it difficult to view the celestial heavens above, below and all around this ball of rock we stand on as it hurtles through space.
What we see of stars in the night sky, which is essentially starlight traveling at the speed of light, represents anywhere from 4 years to several thousand years of effort to reach us. The star you’re staring at might not even exist anymore. It may have burst into a brilliant supernova a thousand years ago that we won’t even see for another thousand…