Hello everyone, it's been a while.
How are you all spending your time now that a state of emergency has been declared? I'm sure some of you are feeling stressed because you can't do what you want.
Since last year, I have been accumulating invitations to drinks and trips with the message, "Once the state of emergency is over, please come!", so once the state of emergency is over, it looks like a state of emergency will be declared on my wallet as well.
Now, as for what I've been up to recently, this was before the state of emergency was declared, but I received a sudden invitation to go and experience the "universe."
This is a very luxurious and privileged environment, with a lodge located within the research facility where you can stay and gaze at the constellations until late into the night.
Since it is a research facility for observing the stars, it is located in a fairly remote location.
When I was a child, we had a telescope at home, and I would go to the beach with my whole family in the middle of the night to look at the planets, and then go out onto the balcony to look at the constellations. I was a child who felt the romance of space.
That's a lie, because to be honest, there were countless times when I was taken there thinking, ``It's cold, I'm sleepy, and it's such a pain.''
It's a memory of my childhood, when I was so brave and seemed to be having fun in front of my parents.
Well, the real action begins at night.
At night, the public can look directly into the world's largest telescope, "Nayuta," and enjoy a lecture by an astronomer on the stars. What a luxury!
It is peering into the edge of the universe, across 10 billion light-years of space-time.
In human terms, it's like looking into space with a pupil that is 2 meters in diameter.
We observed the Milky Way and meteor showers on Nayuta. I don't know much about the universe, but the astronomer professor taught me a lot and I made a lot of discoveries.
In our everyday lives, we don't often get to talk about various things while looking up at the stars, but at times like these, it's nice to have the opportunity to come into contact with something bigger than Earth in a remote, isolated place.
I thoroughly enjoyed getting away from reality.
There are so many things I want to say to you, like the stars, but whenever I try to explain them, they always end up being cliched, so I'll stop here...
