A Forgotten View: The Statue of Liberty, Framed by the Stars of a Darkened Harbour in New York

The sky over New York flickered to life like a celestial monitor booting up.

Where artificial lights had once drowned it, the cosmos now unveiled itself in full resolution.

Vega, Deneb, and Altair formed the Summer Triangle, a beacon for cosmic travelers.

The Milky Way stretched in luminous bands, a galactic highway leading toward Sagittarius, where the heart of the black hole—Sagittarius A*—lurked unseen.

Far below, the statue’s torch pointed upward, as if signaling to Cassiopeia’s distant, flickering realm. The universe had been waiting here all along, veiled by humanity’s own glow.

Now, it spoke in stars.