He depicts a lovely night sight in his poetry. Two or three stars emerge in the black sky after the sun has set. There was also a delicate half moon in the sky, which added to the beauty. The poet describes the beautiful natural splendor of the night admirably. This is what he wrote about it: "Even now, as I write, a star appears/Beyond the woods; and yonder moon, though wan,/Still gleams on the wide moor." Stars are luminous bodies that consist mainly of hydrogen gas. They are so distant that only the brightest ones can be seen with the naked eye from Earth, although with a telescope you can see many more. A star is born when a large cloud of gas and dust collapses under its own weight forming a new object called a protostar. As the protostar grows larger it becomes a stellar body. After about 10 million years it will explode as a supernova leaving behind a neutron star or a black hole. The ancients believed that stars were the souls of people who had lived good lives and would go to heaven when they died. Today we know that this is not true but they will still look down upon us from time to time. In conclusion, stars are very important for life on Earth because they provide light at night, heat our planet, and create elements such as oxygen and carbon.