'We Are Stardust - Billion Year Old Carbon

The Hubble space telescope has released new, visible light images of the Eagle’s Nebula “Pillars of Creation”, about 6,500 light years from Earth, in which new stars are being formed from gas and dust - Photo UPI/ALAMY

The Hubble telescope's wonderful new image of the 'Pillars of Creation' confirms what Joni Mitchell sang all this years ago - we really are stardust, billion year old carbon.

The only disappointment for me is that despite science, the profound evidence of our own eyes and ears, there are still lots of people who believe the world was made according to some 'holy book' and that their religion is the best because they are God's 'chosen ones'.

Woodstock by Joni Mitchell

I came upon a child of god 

He was walking along the road 

And I asked him, where are you going 

And this he told me 

Im going on down to yasgurs farm 

Im going to join in a rock n roll band 

Im going to camp out on the land 

Im going to try an get my soul free 

We are stardust 

We are golden 

And weve got to get ourselves 

Back to the garden 

Then can I walk beside you 

I have come here to lose the smog 

And I feel to be a cog in something turning 

Well maybe it is just the time of year 

Or maybe its the time of man 

I dont know who l am 

But you know life is for learning 

We are stardust 

We are golden 

And weve got to get ourselves 

Back to the garden 

By the time we got to woodstock 

We were half a million strong 

And everywhere there was song and celebration 

And I dreamed I saw the bombers 

Riding shotgun in the sky 

And they were turning into butterflies 

Above our nation 

We are stardust 

Billion year old carbon 

We are golden 

Caught in the devils bargain 

And weve got to get ourselves 

Back to the garden