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The cover art depicts a starburst or explosion in space with multiple lines and dots that form a circular pattern. In the center of the image, there is a bright white light that radiates from the center, ending in a yellow, three-dimensional smiley. The overall effect is one of energy and movement, with a sense of depth and depth.

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I enter the cor­ri­dor at the speed of light, fol­low­ing the pre­de­ter­mined ray path through the lenses of the telescope—a tiny par­ti­cle among count­less oth­ers. Sud­denly, how­ever, my jour­ney across light-years comes to an end: I hit a pho­to­graphic plate and release all my energy into a chem­i­cal reac­tion, and my exis­tence is extin­guished.

But some­thing remains: an image of me and the oth­ers who trav­eled with me, an image of the star that emit­ted us mil­lions of years ago and sent us on this long jour­ney here into this tele­scope. An image that in turn reflects mass­less cor­pus­cles like me, cre­at­ing a mir­a­cle: you can see—dis­tant star sys­tems as well as the tip of your own nose! (Vast legions of par­ti­cles are needed to make your view of the world pos­si­ble. And as far as I’m con­cerned: I was more than happy to do it for you.)

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