Zeta Ophiuchi (Pennsylvania)

Lauren writes that after her father’s death, she found solace in old episodes of Cosmos with Carl Sagan, which they used to watch together. She very sweetly writes that the universe celebrates my late brother’s life through me. “We are made of star stuff,” indeed! Thank you, Lauren.

The postcard legend says: “The giant star Zeta Ophiuchi is 370 light-years from Earth. It is twenty times more massive than the Sun and eighty thousand times brighter.”