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Cosmic Question Mark
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A question mark hangs in the sky
as if all answers to defy
no matter what we think we know
within our cosmic view’s tableau
as to the what and how and why.
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When speculations go awry,
where deeper bases underlie,
might wisdom guide the stars to show
a question mark?
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Assumptions lacking proof’s supply
that seek to speak as truth thereby
though theories may come and go—
aye, let the vast immense bestow
as seeming caveat on high
a question mark.
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~ Harley White
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The poem is in the form of a rondeau…
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“I would rather have questions that can’t be answered than answers that can’t be questioned.”
~ Richard Feynman (1918-1988)
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Webb telescope spots strange galaxy that looks like a giant cosmic ‘question mark’…
https://uk.news.yahoo.com/webb-telescope-spots-strange-galaxy-054048565.html
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James Webb Space Telescope: a giant celestial question mark has been spotted in deep space…
https://uk.news.yahoo.com/james-webb-space-telescope-giant-111525766.html
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Explanation: Nasa’s James Webb space telescope has captured the most detailed image yet of a star system about 1,470 light years away – with one strange cosmic object shaped like a “question mark” in its background. The star system, dubbed Herbig-Haro 46/47, was captured by the Webb telescope’s powerful infrared cameras and consists of two young stars pulled to each other by gravity as they spin.
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Image credit: NASA, ESA, CSA. Image Processing: Joseph DePasquale (STScI)/post-processing inset image Daisy Dobrijevic
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