In 1504, ancient astronomers recorded seeing what we know today as a supernova. It was bright enough to be seen in the daylight for a few months and in the night time for nearly two years. A supernova occurs when a massive star explodes when it runs out of Helium and Hydrogen. The remnants of this spectacular event are what we see today as The Crab Nebula. At the center of this cloud of dust is a pulsar, a dense clump of neutrons (their protons having been flung out in the explosion). Pulsars send off concentrated beams of radio waves through their haphazardly formed magnetic poles; these radio waves are responsible for creating the beautiful array we see here.
I was something that lay under the sun and felt it, like the pumpkins, and did not want to be anything more. I was entirally happy. Perhaps we feel like that when we die and become a part of something entire, whether it is sun and air, or goodness and knowledge. At any rate, that is happiness; to be dissolved into something complete and great. When it comes to one, it comes as naturally as sleep.