• kayzeekayzee@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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      1 day ago

      Huh for some reason I’d never considered that fact that the songwriter would have no idea what a star consisted of. Just a mysterious light in the sky.

      • Whats_your_reasoning@lemmy.world
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        21 hours ago

        Interesting, I think of the lyrics as describing the way a baby or toddler feels when looking at the stars. They don’t know what those bright lights are yet, they just know they’re shiny and too high up to reach.

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      24 hours ago

      Apparently the sun’s spectral absorption lines were discovered 4 years before the song was made