Fairway To Heaven

There's something magical about looking up at the stars. This one was taken during the night on the hotel golf course, hence the title 'Fairway To Heaven'.

Some facts I like about stars are:

The distances involved in measuring how far away a star is are immense. Consider that the closest star to Earth is approximately 4.2 light years away. It would take about 70,000 years in our fastest space craft to reach it.

There are approximately 400 billion stars in the Milky Way galaxy alone.


On a clear night, you cannot see even a fraction of these stars. However during a clear night, in the country, with the naked eye you can see up to 19,000,000,000,000,000 miles away, very easily.

The best of all is that there are more stars in the Universe than grains of sand on all the beaches on planet Earth.