First Light Machine

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: 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: 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: Optical: DSS; Infrared: NASA/JPL-Caltech;
X-ray: NASA/CXC/PSU/ K.Getman, E.Feigelson, M.Kuhn & the MYStIX team

Dueling sparks
And juggling fire
A flame –
Starves the dark
From its pure desire.

Raged with age
A force blown out
A flame –
Flees its stage
When fueled by doubt.

Upon the brink
It cannot feel
A flame –
Cannot think
That it’s really, real.

Subcluster mergers >>

 

Hat Tip: “Burned” by Lynnia

 

Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Space Science Institute

Unseen visions
Scream –
Through our past
Screened,
By a future
Unreal –
And unlashed.

Haze of the Sun >>

 

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 >>

 

Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/SSI

Angle right visions
Curve –
Through the night
Sending whispers of color
To conserve –
It’s arc light.

Cassini Solstice Mission >>