Brian May offered a new space-inspired song following a historic feat of the James Webb Space Telescope.
As the world celebrates the fascinating first images of the James Webb Space Telescope, the astrophysicist-turned-musician collaborated with Graham Gouldman to release the new song, "Floating In Heaven."
They wrote it from the perspective of the telescope itself, making the lyrics more fascinating while looking at the first images.
"I've never seen the moon so white / I've never seen the sun so bright / I'm floating in heaven," some of the lines say.
The Queen's official YouTube channel also dropped an ethereal music video of the song, receiving praises from fans who are both into Queen and astronomy.
May chose to create the song to mark the historic milestone the world's most powerful space telescope recently scored. The James Webb Space Telescope was launched in December 2021 and entered orbit in January 2022.
It waited for months before it became fully operational this week.
"These images, including the deepest infrared view of our universe that has ever been taken, show us how Webb will help to uncover the answers to questions we don't even yet know to ask; questions that will help us better understand our universe and humanity's place within it," NASA Administrator Bill Nelson said.
He also praised the Webb team's success in following what NASA does best,
Among the images, it captured include the SMACS 0723, WASP-96b, Southern Ring Nebula, Stephan's Quintet, and Carina Nebula.
Brian May's Journey as Astrophysicist and Musician
May dropped the song over a decade after earning a Ph.D. in astrophysics from Imperial College.
As a lover of astronomy, the Queen's guitarist has been expressing his deep love for all things space through a space-related song years ago.
His track, "39," is about space explorers who return home after traveling outside the earth for a year. But upon their comeback, they find out that a century already passed.
The song first appeared on Queen's 1975 album, "A Night At the Opera."
"There is nothing more exciting in a world of exploration than going to a place about which you know nothing. The sky's the limit for what we could find out," he said, per Guitar.com.
Before working full-time with Queen, May was studying astrophysics and was about to finish his thesis. At that time, he chose to focus on music before going back to astronomy years later.
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