First Light Machine

Vibrantly, variable
Violently, vast
Visually, vacant
Is the present –
As past.

Verge of supernova >>

 

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: X-ray: NASA/CXC/Caltech/P.Ogle et al; Optical: NASA/STScI; IR: NASA/JPL-Caltech; Radio: NSF/NRAO/VLA

Ejections, of motion
As inflections, of might
Disconnects –
Their intersections
As a reflection –
Of light.

Anomalous arms >>

 

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: ESA/Hubble & NASA, D. Rosario et al.

A dreamer views –
An endless universe of possibility
Full of mystery and marvel
With pinpoints of opportunity
Dashing by
Dancing, just out of reach
Staring back
At the starlight
Inside of us.

Emitting >>

 

Hat Tip: Michael Solc “Once”

 

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: Hubble Space Telescope/NASA

Measurement, discrepancies
Observationally, imprecise

Evolve into uncertainty
A constraint –
That’s un-concise.

Series of errors >>

 

Credit: NASA, ESA, Hubble Legacy Archive; Processing & Copyright: Rudy Pohl

Burst frame precision
Distorted –
By rage
Re-plans its destruction
Through a formation,
Rampage.

Jumping >>

 

Credit: NASA, ESA, Hubble

A halcyon silver
Shakes the night
A grudging sky
A spirit light

A shadow ghost
A shaking sight
Through darkshine signs
Of unnerving, bright.

Not alive >>