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someone aiming their neck at light that left home before they were born.
means A person who studies or gazes at the stars, whether a serious astronomer or a dreamy idealist with their head in the clouds.
from A plain English compound, stitched from "star" (Old English steorra, a cousin of Latin stella and Greek astēr) and "gazer," from the verb "gaze," which surfaced in Middle English meaning to stare intently — its own origins are murky, possibly Scandinavian. The literal sense came first; the figurative one, a dreamer detached from earthly matters, followed naturally, since anyone fixed on the heavens tends to trip over what's underfoot. The name also got attached to a bug-eyed fish that lies buried in the seabed with its eyes turned permanently skyward.
- time travel
- Every star you see is an ancient photograph
- the fish
- Stargazer fish bury themselves and zap prey electrically
- naked eye
- You see only about 9,000 stars total
- dark adaption
- Eyes need 30 minutes to fully drink darkness
- andromeda
- That faint smudge is 2.5 million light-years off
stargazer lily — ornamental flower with upward-facing pink and white blooms, bred in 1974 by oriental lily hybridizers
stargazer telescope — nasa's chandra x-ray observatory, launched 1999, observes high-energy cosmic phenomena
stargazer fish — bottom-dwelling marine fish with eyes on top of head, found in atlantic and mediterranean waters