I have been fascinated by space and stars all my life. As I explore my creative side I tend to be pulled in the direction of various ways to illustrate and express what a star is. This is my most recent star variant, inspired by the way text can be a form of visual expression.

The input to the ASCII art generator was my [Exploding Stars #1](https://objkt.com/asset/KT1UrLNLvUxRMzqst6Qah7dDKgns7N6B3Wpb/0) which you can see on Objkt. Preview image for this article is a snapshot of the same ASCII Star in smaller format (reduced number of characters on the x-axis).

The way the Markdown code block tries to interpret the ASCII art as JavaScript is fascinating and creates interesting side effects in the color scheme.

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ASCII Star #1 - A text-only star based on my Exploding Star #1 on Objkt.

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