Thatababy by Paul Trap for May 22, 2024

How long ago did that star have to reply? Considering how far away it is?

Twinkle, twinkle, little star

We know exactly what you are:

Nuclear furnace in the sky,

You’ll burn to ashes by and by.

But tick, tick, tick pulsating star,

Now we wonder what you are:

Magneto-nucleo-gravity ball,

Making monkeys of us all!

And twinkle, twinkle, quasi-star,

You’re the limit, yes you are:

With such indecent energy,

Did God not say you couldn’t be?

- Attrib. G. Gamow and Nigel Calder, c. 1969

I get my answer from “Why Does The Sun Shine”, either off the 1959 Space Songs record, or the popular version by They Might Be Giants.

ask and you shall receive