The Star

Today in class we read a short story called The Star. I found this to be somewhat hard to understand but finally came to understand what they were talking about. It was about a group of space explorers from earth who traveled to this destroyed civilization in a place that was far away from our sun. It was pretty interesting once i actually knew what was going on. What i want to know is how did they know about this other civilization? And why did they blame God? One of the main points of the story was how this civilization got destroyed. It was wiped out by the sun when it went supernova. This story makes you think could there really be life somewhere else besides earth? What i also found interesting was how this stories characters were realistic even though it was in the future. I found this interesting because when you think of science fiction you think of creatures and aliens but when i read this it was the total opposite. I also was wondering what the two latin phrases meant in this story. What i also really enjoyed about this story was how it was based around an event that could maybe even happen one day.