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Imagine if we evolved on Earth like normal but were in orbit around a star that had been ejected maybe a billion years before. And when our sentient eyes turned skyward for the first time we saw only profound blackness. The only points in the night sky are other planets in our solar system and perhaps the moon. No constellations, no nebulae, no exoplanet discovery, nothing. Just a few dim smudges where the Milky Way is, and perhaps a fundamentally different understanding of the cosmos.
