Celestial Renaissances

By Harley White posted 11-01-2021 10:44

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Image Credit: ESA/Hubble and NASA, R. Cohen

Celestial Renaissances

New stars are born from those that die
as pearly revenants on high
to occupy the vaulted sky
stelliferous to earthly eye.

When Sun shall lose its healing glow
that shines upon our world below
as star which turns a further page
and passes sunny sequence stage

to nebula emission be
enriching the galactic sea,
will novel star a system make
where other beings can awake?

Stelliferous to earthly eye,
to occupy the vaulted sky
new stars are born from those that die
as pearly revenants on high.

Could birth and death keep rhythmic pace
while stars arise in cosmic space
embroidered into stellar lace
as state of grace moves place to place

for planets plenteously rife
to foster some domestic life
amidst the e’er mercurial
dynamic forms figurial?

To occupy the vaulted sky
stelliferous to earthly eye,
new stars are born from those that die
as pearly revenants on high.

Might we somehow dimensions share
with any sentient sorts out there
in sensibility and sense
within the myriad immense

whose evolution far outran
that of the species known as Man
for peaceful coexistent ways
throughout their livelong nights and days?

As pearly revenants on high
to occupy the vaulted sky
stelliferous to earthly eye,
new stars are born from those that die.

~ Harley White

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Some sources of inspiration were the following…

Image ~ Palomar 6: Globular Star Cluster ~ Astronomy Picture of the Day (APOD) ~ 2021 October 19…
https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap211019.html

Explanation: Where did this big ball of stars come from? Palomar 6 is one of about 200 globular clusters of stars that survive in our Milky Way Galaxy. These spherical star-balls are older than our Sun as well as older than most stars that orbit in our galaxy's disk. Palomar 6 itself is estimated to be about 12.5 billion years old, so old that it is close to -- and so constrains -- the age of the entire universe. Containing about 500,000 stars, Palomar 6 lies about 25,000 light years away, but not very far from our galaxy's center. At that distance, this sharp image from the Hubble Space Telescope spans about 15 light-years. After much study including images from Hubble, a leading origin hypothesis is that Palomar 6 was created -- and survives today -- in the central bulge of stars that surround the Milky Way's center, not in the distant galactic halo where most other globular clusters are now found.

Image Credit: ESA/Hubble and NASA, R. Cohen

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