It is enough to stand here for an irrevocable minute agape with wonder. It is eternity.

— Maria Popova, “But We Had Music,” read by Nick Cave. Made for the seventh annual Universe in Verse, it sets starlings flickering across an evening sky against the black hole at the galaxy’s center, which will someday swallow Euclid’s postulates and the Goldberg Variations. Brazilian filmmaker Daniel Bruson animated it.