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Music of Celestial Spheres — part 3 — on the outskirts of the Galaxy

by Andrey Klimkovsky

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Our Galaxy, or, in other words, the Milky Way is a huge space city in which we live. The earthly cities familiar to us cannot in any way compare with this ecumenical giant either in size or in population. Indeed, to reach the opposite outskirts of the star city, a ray of light will take more than 300 thousand years, and this cosmopolis is inhabited by hundreds of billions of stars. In all the cities of the Earth taken together, there are not so many people living, not a single spacecraft develops such speeds that would allow us to fly out of our Galaxy and look at it from the outside. But thought is faster than the flux of light and we can make a mental journey to the farthest outskirts of our cosmic city. Closing our eyes, we will be transported to an uninhabited mountain plateau, where the crystal-clear air does not hide the radiance of the starry sky from us, and lifting our eyes to the stars, we will begin our fantastic journey to where no one was ...

In a few moments we overcame the limits of gravity of the Earth, left the Solar System. Soon the Sun and the stars closest to it were lost in the stellar labyrinths. Our path lies through the densely populated arms of our Galaxy, through the dark and light gaseous nebulae where stars are born, flying past star clusters and planetary nebulae with the speed of thought, making a sharp turn, leaving the plane of the Milky Way and gaining flight speed towards the pole of the Galaxy, from where it has the most stunning view. We are surrounded by an unusual panorama. There is only the sky, the sky in all directions, but there are absolutely no stars on it. It is black as coal, and only in the endless depths below us, slowly rotating, floats a huge stellar disk. It sparkles just like January snow sparkles on a clear day. These innumerable stars, which not so long ago adorned our sky, have now merged into one incomprehensible twinkle. From such a great distance, the eye cannot see them separately. But the streets of this city are perfectly visible. Flowing from the shining center, they tend to the outskirts, twisting in spirals. It is in the spiral arms of the Galaxy that the youngest population lives. Because of this, they have a bluish color.

From afar, the life of a star city seems quiet and measured, but in reality it is not. The life of the Galaxy is simply full of cataclysms. Here stars are born and die, supernovae explode, scattering billions of tons of hot gas over space, black holes collapse, absorbing the surrounding matter into their bottomless depths. The speeds on the stellar highways of the Galaxy reach hundreds of kilometers per second, and the entire space of our cosmopolis is permeated with all types of radiation that only exist in the Universe.

Continuing a walk along the stellar avenues of the Milky Way, our gaze falls into more and more distant regions of the galaxy. Here the stars live more freely, the rhythms of their cosmic life are calmer. Somewhere in space there is an invisible border, beyond which intergalactic space begins. There are no stars or nebulae here. Look around — we are surrounded by emptiness. The black sky is everywhere and the only thing that is present here is a faint stream of light emanating from the star city we have abandoned. But emptiness is not nothing. It was from the void that our Universe was born 14 billion years ago.

Look closely — in this starless sky, you can still find two or three stars. Where did they come from here? These are the fugitive stars. Possessing great speed, they managed to escape from the gravitational field of the Milky Way and now their path is directed to other, like ours, stellar islands. But even with their speed — thousands of kilometers per second, it will take them hundreds of millions of years to get into worlds unknown to us.

However, for stars this is not too long, because stars live for billions of years. By human standards, this is insanely much, but, probably, the ancients said for a reason — "... Stars are like people ..." — assuming that the life of a star is a continuation of human life in another incarnation and, perhaps, this rapid intergalactic journey is still ahead for us .

But now, having admired the view of our Galaxy, it's time to go back. For us, nothing is easier — we just need to find in this city the familiar light in the window — the ghostly light of the distant Sun.

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released November 4, 1997

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Andrey Klimkovsky Moscow, Russia

Andrey Klimkovsky is one of leading russian composers working in the electronic musical space. Images creating by him - "Music of Celestial Spheres", "Starry Sky", "ALEALA" и "DreamOcean" - stayed the classics of the genre, received popularity as in Russia, and abroad. ... more

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