First Light Machine

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

A pinprick
Of wisdom
A faint, unrefined

An emotional, reaction
To a strange something
Undefined.

Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Univ. of Arizona

The West side
Of history
Looks back, to the East
Accumulating, discovery
It seeks –
Its release.

Credit: Juan Ignacio Jimenez

The foreground, in life
Detects a background,
Of death

As defective, design
Destroys its intake,
Of breath.

Credit & Copyright: Rogelio Bernal Andreo (Deep Sky Colors)

Light, minute, magic
Mysteriously,
Makes
The flouresense, of its starlight
Into a night,
That breaks
Awake.

Credit: X-ray: NASA/CXO/Oxford University/J. Conlon et al.; Radio: NRAO/AUI/NSF/Univ. of Montreal/Gendron-Marsolais et al.; Optical: NASA/ESA/IoA/A. Fabian et al.; DSS

A darkness
Of vision
A conscience
Of mind

A soul twisting
Wisdom
From a light,
Intertwined.

Credit & Copyright: Francesco Battistella

Spectral arm spirals
Sailing, through time
Sculps its reminder
Of a fate –
In the sublime.

Credit: NASA, ESA, Hubble, HLA; Processing & Copyright: Domingo Pestana

Blasting on outward
We look, from within
To find our reflection
From the point, we begin.

Credit: NASA, JPL-Caltech, SwRI, MSSS; Processing: Gerald Eichstädt & Seán Doran

Shadows, discernible
Storms of, deceit
An atmospheric, anomaly
Remarkably, complete.

Credit: WISE, IRSA, NASA; Processing & Copyright : Francesco Antonucci

It moves through its detail
It radiates its Be
It smashes all conventions
To allow itself –
To see.

Credit & Copyright: Sara Wager

Ripples,
Of color
Set sea, by a spark

Discovering,
Their nature
Now free, from the dark.