Assignment 21 - Haley Drake

At this very moment, somewhere in the universe a star is dying. It's expanding at an extraordinary rate, consuming everything in its path in heat and gas. Meanwhile, somewhere else in the universe, interstellar matter compresses and fuses, creating a perfect balance of gravity and outward forces - a star is born. Elsewhere, the crude beginnings of alien life forms are thriving. These archaic, microbic organisms are unbeknownst to humans, who live trillions of miles away. Somewhere else in the universe, some human person is staring up at the night sky in awe. The stars they see might have died thousands of years ago, but their light that still beams across the galaxy reaches Earth just in time for them to see it. And as the human returns their gaze back to Earth, they go back to what they were doing before and continue going about their regular night at home.