Admit it. There was a night when you were a child when you looked up at the sky and couldn’t take your eyes off the stars. The sheer number of them, strewn like gemstones across the heavens, stars everywhere you looked. You wondered if they were bigger or smaller than this little planet we sit on, and whether they had people and animals like ours. 

Someone told me Jupiter could hold 1,300 earths. My mouth became a big ‘O’ — I couldn’t imagine something that big. Then I learned that the sun could hold a million earths. You’d say 10 lakhs but that’s still one followed by six zeros and more money than I’ve ever seen together.