March 3rd, 2023 § § permalink

Credit: NASA, ESA, CSA

Darkening nights around me
Where chill of winter blows
A cold of quick surrounds me
Impeding the thought to go
Its creeping mental picture
Lies bare beneath the snow
A brewing storm descending
That opens – my void below.
Hat tip: Emily Brontë, Spellbound
Protostar Ced 110 IRS 4 >>
January 29th, 2023 § § permalink

Credit & Copyright: Stefan Thrun

Seven sisters, in the sky
Shining bright, for all to spy
A cluster of, stars so fair
Guiding visions, everywhere.
In ancient times, they were a guide
For sailor, soldier, and and those who bide
Their light in winter, shining clear
A beacon of hope, drawing near.
So let us look, up to the sky
And see the Seven, Sisters rise
A reminder of, the beauty there
The infinite expanse, place we share.
Hat tip: ChatGPT – OpenAI
Messier 45 >>
September 11th, 2022 § § permalink

Credit: NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI, Webb ERO Production Team

Breaking its wavelength
Ghosting its sight
Bathing in brilliance
Is its moment, of might.
52,000 parsecs >>
August 20th, 2022 § § permalink

Credit: NASA

A degradation signal
In a timescale shaking wave
Breaks its solar dominion
To cheat –
Its telemetry grave.
Hat Tip: RJHC
Voyager 1 >>
June 26th, 2022 § § permalink

IDL TIFF file
Credit: NASA, ESA, H. E. Bond (STScI)

Screams of nature
Howling with rage
Shaking in anger
In a teeming –
Rampage.
V838 >>
March 27th, 2022 § § permalink

Credit: NASA, ESA, Hubble; Processing & Copyright: Mehmet Hakan Özsaraç

Intensity,
In scale
Towards a massive,
Blue bolt
Re-structures –
Its primitive,
Radiated,
Revolt.
”O” type >>
December 19th, 2021 § § permalink

Credit: NASA, ESA, Hubble; Processing & Copyright: Mehmet Hakan Özsaraç

I must look up into the breach again,
To the wondrous sight in the sky,
And ask that I do understand
Of a star, that now wonders its why.
And the breath of color that sing’s its song
The lengths of its light shaking,
Through the shaded mist of history’s face,
The present, of its dawn, breaking.
Hat Tip – John Masefield, “Sea Fever”
Hidden Infant >>
July 4th, 2021 § § permalink

Credit: NASA, ESA, Hubble Legacy Archive; Processing: Francisco Javier Pobes Serrano

Within my memory
Flashed from birth,
I feel the complexity
Of the vastness –
Both inner and outer,
Intricate and simple,
Chaos coupled to clarity
In a memorized meaning – of the now.
M42 >>
June 21st, 2021 § § permalink

Credit: Hubble Legacy Archive, ESA, NASA; Processing: Amal Biju

Backdrops of color
Alive, and alone
Are the wonders
In nature
Of a thriving,
Unknown.
ARP 188 >>
April 25th, 2021 § § permalink

Credit: Optical: European Southern Observatory (ESO) Wide Field Imager; Submillimeter: Max Planck Institute for Radio Astronomy/ESO/Atacama Pathfinder Experiment (APEX)/A.Weiss et al; X-ray and Infrared: NASA/Chandra/R. Kraft; JPL-Caltech/J. Keene; Text: Joan Schmelz (USRA)

Measured, gross emissions
Combined,
By brute force
Detracts, from a vision
Of a designed,
Streamed source.
SOFIA >>