First Light Machine

Spectral, range orbits
Extracted, from time
Are phased, exposed spectra
Of its solid, blue line.

Radial velocity detection of an extrasolar planet >>

 

Splashing, its sharp vision
Through the realms,
Of time aligned

Delivers, on its promise
To overwhelm –
Our bold minds.

Lagoon >>

 

Wing like windows
Carved from
Wolf-Rayet scars –

Blows its
Norse, wind, vision
Into its
Blue, hued, stars.

NGC 2359 >>

 

Running on towards
Its outside –
Its inside, reflects delay

As it links
Its prescient present –
Within a vision, on full display.

IC 2944 >>

 

Credit & Copyright: Amir H. Abolfath (TWAN)

Obscured, scattered visions
From the edge,
To its out

Assures, bold collisions
From the inside,
Of doubt.

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: NASA, SOFIA, HAWC+; JPL-Caltech, Roma Tre. U.; ESA, Hubble, NuSTAR, SDSS

We see the terror
We feel its pain
We see the horrid
Hiding –
Within its miserable shame.

We see the wicked
And take its blame
As we are the punishment
Striking –
Behind its dust defined flame.

Airborne SOFIA >>

 

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 >>