Since the Big Bang

photo notes & credits appear below

Since the Big Bang

We started in the stars

some 10 to 15 billion years ago

(give or take a few)

and a lot has happened

since then.

Species -- extant & extinct,

known and un- and

those as yet to be -- we

travel the galaxy,

circling our solar system,

each of us sharing similar stardust origins;

created, begotten, made up by chance, happenstance,

variation &  recombination of the same

simple, little building blocks:

deoxyribonucleic acid, DNA

(like Legos, if you will):

a genetic alphabet – musical notes

on a magical scale --

in quest

of harmony.

PSC/2014-Apr

 Written for 2014 April PAD Challenge: Day 4 - Since (Blank)

Photo notes & credits:  

This file is in the public domain because it was created by NASA and ESA. NASA Hubble material (and ESA Hubble material prior to 2009) is copyright-free and may be freely used as in the public domain without fee, on the condition that only NASA, STScI, and/or ESA is credited as the source of the material. This license does not apply if ESA material created after 2008 or source material from other organizations is in use. The material was created for NASA by Space Telescope Science Institute under Contract NAS5-26555, or for ESA by the Hubble European Space Agency Information Centre. Copyright statement at hubblesite.org or 2008 copyright statement at spacetelescope.org. For material created by the European Space Agency on the spacetelescope.org site since 2009, use the {{ESA-Hubble}} tag.

For more info on the photo, follow this link:  http://www.spacetelescope.org/images/potw1252a/

And lastly, a note from the poet:   
Yes, I took poetic license with this photo. It is NOT our Milky Way, but it was titled “A wanderer dancing the dance of stars and space” – which also seemed appropriate to the subject matter.  (PSC)