The hit song that proclaimed, “All we are is dust in the wind,” may have some cosmic truth to it. New findings from NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope suggest that space dust – the same stuff that makes up living creatures and planets – was manufactured in large quantities in the winds of black holes that populated our early universe.

From Astronomers Find Dust in the Wind of Black Holes

I loved astronomy while I was growing up, and still do, and was also lucky enough to take a couple of astronomy classes in college, one of which was quite hands-on (telescopes and formulas for calculations – fun stuff). It becomes obvious with just the basic knowledge of astronomy that the earth is truly a lonely island in the vast sea of space, and quite truthfully, we are all made of stardust.

I also have a funny relationship with the song “Dust in the Wind”. I don’t think the song is depressing or sad – though it obviously is supposed to be. I just see it as a song about anicca – impermanance – and that’s just the way it is.