First Light Machine

Credit & Copyright: Amir H. Abolfath (TWAN)

Obscured, scattered visions
From the edge,
To its out

Assures, bold collisions
From the inside,
Of doubt.

Credit: X-ray: Chandra: NASA/CXC/Univ.Potsdam/L.Oskinova et al; Optical: Hubble: NASA/STScI; Infrared: Spitzer: NASA/JPL-Caltech

Creatures of thought
Through infrared sight

Are troubled
And fraught
And burned, through their bright.

NGC 602 >>

 

Credit & Copyright: Eric Coles and Mel Helm

Recaptured, electrons
Reflected, through dust
Protects, a proto vision
Through their chariots –
Of rust.

AE Aurigae >>

 

Credit & Copyright: Josep Drudis

A single stage reaction
Streams –
Its measured gains

By framing pure abstraction
Through its telescopic –
Skeins.

Southern Tadpoles >>

 

Credit: Cassini Imaging Team, ISS, JPL, ESA, NASA

Raging through the darkness
Through the swaths
Of sharp ringshine

The mind re-blends its starkness
And adopts –
Its pure divine.

Night side >>

 

Credit: NASA, SOFIA, HAWC+; JPL-Caltech, Roma Tre. U.; ESA, Hubble, NuSTAR, SDSS

We see the terror
We feel its pain
We see the horrid
Hiding –
Within its miserable shame.

We see the wicked
And take its blame
As we are the punishment
Striking –
Behind its dust defined flame.

Airborne SOFIA >>

 

Credit & Copyright: Amir H. Abolfath (TWAN)

Look closer –
And you find
A complex balance, intertwined
Within a nature
That’s just naturally,
Undefined.

Ends at the Hyades >>

 

Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/WISE Team

Like a storm cloud –
On the darkest, day of a days
A shuttering thunder, from deep away
A sharp eruption, from dull decay
A quickening crack, to full astray

Then explosion –
From an anger,
On full display.

Cosmic canvas >>

 

Credit & Copyright: Tommaso Stella

Influences –
Of luminous radiation
Within proportional emissions
Of a flowing bow

Combines a character –
A framed rim transformation
Within a focused soul
Of a ghostly now.

gamma Cas >>

 

Credit: ALMA (ESO/NAOJ/NRAO), F. O. Alves et al.

A gravitized center
In binary form

Spins a radius, orbit
Into a filament –
Storm.

Atacama Large Millimeter Array >>