rock star

In the sense that I live on a rock but came from the stars.

"We have begun to contemplate our origins: we are star-stuff pondering the stars!" -Carl Sagan, Ithaca, NY

Those are the words at the base of this Sun statue, the beginning point of a monument to Carl Sagan that starts on the Commons and ends a few miles away with Pluto at the Science Center, a fully representational/proportional model of the solar system.