First Light Machine

Credit: NASA, ESA, N. Smith (U. California, Berkeley) et al., and The Hubble Heritage Team (STScI/AURA)

A hammer on the skyscape

With quark explosions flashing
An endless surprise

As sheets of woven color
Pierce the black
Shattering the white

Becoming shards of destiny
Raining –
From a nowhere
Relentless now.

Controlled-color Carina >>

 

Hat Tip: Ottaross – “Out Of Steel Wool Skies”

Credit: HiRISE, MRO, LPL (U. Arizona), NASA

Windblown visions
Of a spiking, blue fade
Re-images, its planum
Through a striking –
Of shade.

Ares 3 >>

 

Credit: NASA, JPL-Caltach, Spitzer Space Telescope

An illuminated cave
From an infrared, array
Appears, to shape
A signature
Through a shocking bow –
Spray.

Sh2-155 >>

 

Credit: ESA/Hubble, NASA

Foreground fissures
In free forming fields
Furiously frame –
Through their fractional, shields.

ESO 495-21 >>

 

Hat Tip: RJHC

Credit & Copyright: Andrew Campbell

Somehow, color the night comes
and rises dark and calm

I can see, a sight – a floating white
in the amber, of a past respond

With flowing motion, back, behind
on an angle, its purpose bond

Oh, to see it, trailing away
towards the great, unfathomable, beyond.

Ship’s Keel >>

 

Hat Tip: L.L. Barkat – “Estrella”

Credit & Copyright: Andrew Klinger

Spacial line, directions
Within the arcs –
Of angled dust
Discerns itself, by deception
In cover clouds –
Of swathed rust.

Upper Rigel >>

 

Credit & Copyright: Sage Gray

Breaking back the darkness
The now,
Becomes the then
As it breaks beyond its spark
The hidden how,
Repeats again.

Oceanus Procellarum >>

 

Credit: NASA/JPL/Univ. Arizona/UChicago

Wind worn glides
Of flowing try
Turning here,
To there, a gleam –
Long since sought
To there, a stream

Sailing empty
Through wondering sky
To subtle jetties,
Of methane air –
Riding through
Till no, till there

Notions of what
Or what may why
Under the cracked,
And deepening pool –
Meandering true
So dark, and cool

A winded wrinkle
Wrankle awry
Under a surface
Of wind swept time –
Spreads, its out
As a ragged, old sign.

Riverbeds >>

 

Hat tip: Robert Lewis Stevenson “Looking-Glass River”

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

Carbonate, exposures
Awash –
From source plumes
Signifies, composure
From ultramafic, rock fumes.

Syrtis Major Quadrangle >>

 

Credit: NASA, ESA, STScI

Unexpectedly, symmetrical
And unusually, complete
An outflow,
Beams syntactical
As its symbiots –
Accrete.

Bipolar hourglass >>