Entranced

"Yes, that's the word. Astronomy often talks about systems and groups of celestial bodies, but there isn't really any sort of that when you are actually out there. It's cold, hot, dangerous, and dead. We see stars as part of constellations, but from one star to the next might actually be hundreds or even thousands of light years. It's like that one Chinese folk tale of the cowherd and the weaver girl, Altair and Vega, separated by the Milky Way's Galactic Center.