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The stars don't look bigger, but they do look brighter.
I'm really into space. When I was four years old, I used to pray to the stars and look at the moon.
I actually believe more in outer space in Virginia, because I can look up at the sky and count the stars.
When you look at the stars and the galaxy, you feel that you are not just from any particular piece of land, but from the solar system.
Those are the same stars, and that is the same moon, that look down upon your brothers and sisters, and which they see as they look up to them, though they are ever so far away from us, and each other.
One in 200 stars has habitable Earth-like planets surrounding it - in the galaxy, half a billion stars have Earth-like planets going around them - that's huge, half a billion. So when we look at the night sky, it makes sense that someone is looking back at us.
The stars look the same from night to night. Nebulae and galaxies are dully immutable, maintaining the same overall appearance for thousands or millions of years. Indeed, only the sun, moon and planets - together with the occasional comet, asteroid or meteor - seem dynamic.