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#163: empyreal

11/19/2015

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stars all at once are
empyreal, magical
​extraterrestri...
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Three of my friends posted this photo at about the same time. It's just SO awe-inspiring.
To think the closest star is 93 million miles away; the rest... indeterminable. Yet stars are so embedded in our psyche; so close, so accessible. All you have to do is look up on a clear night! 

DEFINITION of this 4-syllable adjective:
  1. pertaining to the sky; celestial: empyreal blue.
  2. pertaining to the highest heaven in the cosmology of the ancients.
  3. formed of pure fire or light: empyreal radiance.
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