First Light Machine

Z, two, redshift through
Circles,
What make us –
You.

MACSJ0138, Supernova Encore >>

 

Breaking its wavelength
Ghosting its sight
Bathing in brilliance
Is its moment, of might.

52,000 parsecs >>

 

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Screams of nature
Howling with rage
Shaking in anger
In a teeming –
Rampage.

V838 >>

 

Measuring, the moments
By marking, its mean
Maps, the components
Of an intangible –
Scene.

Wide Field Camera 3 >>

 

I’m 1,000 years old –
I look back, to see forward
To see the full emptiness
To see the black whole
As a witness, to the fractional sections
Of an everything, from its nothing.

Barnard 33 >>

 

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: NASA, ESA, STScI

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

Bipolar hourglass >>

 

Credit: NASA, ESA, The Hubble Heritage Team, (STScI/AURA)

Mythical mysteries
Of confounding,
Dark scales

Strikes through
Its long history
Through compounding, contrails.