Threading the Stars

If you’re lucky, you might find yourself under a starry night sky, undisturbed by the city lights. If you’re really lucky, you might catch a shooting star, AKA, a small piece of an asteroid.

Asteroids, the ancient leftover rubble from when the solar system formed, have been orbiting the sun as odd-shaped rocks, at times becoming other planets’ moons.

And there are millions of them in the solar system.

Out of that mess of galactic rubble came our planet, our home — the Earth, uniquely designed to host all living creatures.

Now, every time you see a shooting star, just think how lucky we are that, among millions of debris and unknowable rocks and planets floating, we happen to be on a space rock teeming with life.

This award-winning photograph is from the seventh season, “The Moment”, of the Hamdan bin Mohamed bin Rashid al Maktoum International Photography Award (HIPA) Archive. The Climate Tribe has partnered with HIPA, leveraging the power of photography to inspire global awareness of sustainability and advance climate action.