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By Happenstance

By Harley White posted 09-13-2022 07:36

  



ESA/Hubble & NASA, A. Bellini et al.



By Happenstance
 
 
By happenstance a glance may say
we humans saw the light of day
in universe’s vast expanse
to personate our song and dance
within a fleeting earthly stay.
 
At night black velvet sky array
stelliferous with appliqué
might seem to firmament enhance
by happenstance.
 
Yet ‘midst the starry overlay
concomitantly underway
cause and effect their course advance
encompassing in nexus trance
connections cosmic, not at play
by happenstance.
 
 
~ Harley White
 
 
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The poem is in the form of a rondeau…
 
A source of inspiration was the following…
 
Info and image ~ Hubble Views a Not-So-Lonely Galaxy…
https://www.nasa.gov/image-feature/goddard/2019/hubble-views-a-not-so-lonely-galaxy
 
Explanation: Galaxies may seem lonely, floating alone in the vast, inky blackness of the sparsely populated cosmos — but looks can be deceiving. This image of NGC 1706, taken by the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope, is a good example of this. NGC 1706 is a spiral galaxy, about 230 million light-years away, in the constellation of Dorado (the Swordfish)… NGC 1706 is known to belong to something known as a galaxy group, which is just as the name suggests — a group of up to 50 galaxies which are gravitationally bound and hence relatively close to each other… Groups are the smallest of galactic gatherings; others are clusters, which can comprise hundreds of thousands of galaxies bound loosely together by gravity, and subsequent superclusters, which bring together numerous clusters into a single entity.
 
Image credit: ESA/Hubble & NASA, A. Bellini et al.
 
 
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