Davis lay down inside of it, his head resting on its grassy lip.
I lay down next to him, our jackets touching without our skin touching.
He pointed up at the sky and said, “So the light pollution is terrible, but the brightest star you see— there, see it?” I nodded.
“That’s not a star. That’s Jupiter. But Jupiter is, like, depending on orbits and stuff,
between three hundred sixty and six hundred seventy million miles away.
Right now, it’s around five hundred million miles, which is around forty-five light-minutes. You know what light-time is?” “Kinda,” I said.
“It means if we were traveling at the speed of light, it would take us forty- five minutes to get from Earth to Jupiter,
so the Jupiter we’re seeing right now is actually Jupiter forty-five minutes ago.
But, like, just above the trees there, those five stars that kind of make a crooked W?” “Yeah,” I said.
“Right, that’s Cassiopeia. And the crazy thing is, the star on the top, Caph— it’s 55 light-years away.
Then there’s Shedar, which is 230 light-years away. And then Navi, which is 550 light-years away.
It’s not only that we aren’t close to them; they aren’t close to one another.
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