First Light Machine

Credit: NASA/Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory/Southwest Research Institute.

A calming wake
A striking gaze
A wondrous image of
Heavenly phase.

A calming sense
A turbulent maze
A timeless image of
Atmospheric rage.

Long Range Reconnaissance Imager >>>

Photo credit: Col. Brian Fields, USAF, ret
Jan. 9, 2007 near Van Buren, Arkansas

Sons of a strange God
and the daughters of men
choose not what they see
and never not what is when.

Giants unto the earth
from the beginning, then
are the Sons that emerge
from the strange daughters of men.

‘Not of this world’ >>>

Credit: NASA/JPL/Space Science Institute

Composite compositions
Of steller renditions
Are insufficient to announce
What mysteries are aroused
By the lack, in fact, of a crater vision.

15 degrees south latitude >>>

Credit: NASA, ESA, and the Hubble Heritage Team (STScI/AURA)

high-energy radiation
blazing slowly away
is eroding itself
in a stable element decay.

its primitive nature
and its nuclear spray
lacks heavier elements
for a blowing cavity foray.

Small Magellanic Cloud >>>

Credit: NASA/JPL/Space Science Institute

Discover a time
Without feature
A marvelous detection
Of a creature
Enveloped by light
Undiscovered by sight
A hidden gift
From an unknown
Teacher.

Flanking Ice >>>

Credit: Michael Jäger and Gerald Rhemann (Austria)

Parabolic orbits
In twilight skipping skies
Simply celebrates in causing
Fates predictable lies.

A parabolic image
Of a comets knowing whys
Produces catastrophic outcomes
With cataclysmic ties.

R. H. McNaught >>>

Credit: NASA/JPL/USGS

Radar-dark patches
From a new knowledge gain
Is a mesmerising image
A confirmed, Titan rain.

Liquid confirmations >>>

Credit: MPL 3D

The secret author
of cosmic cruelty
trembles in terror
from the power of
its beauty.

The secret author
of cosmic beauty
disguises its horror
and ignores its
own cruelty.

Credit: T. A. Rector (U. Alaska), WIYN, NOAO, AURA, NSF

boom
went a star
reaching past history, far
recorded by time
commanded to find
a signal, or a reason, from afar.

Witch’s Broom Nebula >>>

Credit: NASA/JPL/Space Science Institute

Titan bellows
a timeless threat
to a distant horizon
that never will set.

Titan gambles
its emotional debt
on difficult odds
an even money, sure bet.

Peekaboo >>>