A typical place

In a year,it crosses nearly ten trillion kilometers, about six trillion miles, of intervening space. Thatunit of length, the distance light goes in a year, is called a light-year. It measures not time but distances - enormous distances.The Earth is a place. It is by no means the only place. It is not even a typical place.No planet or star or galaxy can be typical, because the Cosmos is mostly empty. The only typical place is within the vast, cold, universal vacuum, the everlasting night of intergalactic space, a place so strange and desolate that, by comparison, planets and stars and galaxies seem achingly rare and lovely.