KUALA LUMPUR, June 14 -- Stars may be light years away from us, yet people across the board share the same adoration for them.

Stars feature everywhere in human life - right from nursery rhymes, to lovelorn songs and even corny rom-coms.

Dance legend Datuk Ramli Ibrahim says the fascination isn't surprising at all since humans and stars are made up of the same thing.

This is the story behind Meniti Cakerawala - a multi-media dance-music-theatre production by Ramli's Sutra Foundation and led by Malaysia's first astrophysicist Tan Sri Mazlan Othman.

"There's great romance about the creation of the universe, including the fact that you and I are made of the star-stuff, as Carl Sagan would say," Ramli told Malay Mail when met recently.

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