A. We are the dust of long dead stars.
The source appears to be young, rapidly spinning dead stars.
"There seems to be a star, a small brown dwarf, dead ahead."
The reality was that there were simply a lot of dead stars floating about.
One star, dead ahead, was much brighter than the rest, the system's primary, beyond a doubt.
Some of it may be ordinary matter, like rocks and dead stars.
To put it another way, the priests are trying to predict the future by looking at the ghosts of dead stars.
This is an interesting metaphor because of the mythology behind dead stars.
She had fears of contact with comets or dead stars.
Americans have been inclined to count Europe out since the 1940's - one of the author's dead stars.