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Galactic Ghost
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In ghostly guise a phantom face
appears to loom in outer space
with pair galactic painting scene
in cast of pareidolic mien
to eerie spectral visage trace.
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Our earthly sight may sense displace
and lead us on a merry chase
to thus celestial vision glean
in ghostly guise.
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Within empyreal embrace
the stars abiding interlace
upon the ebon cosmic screen
as show the twinkles in their sheen,
some bygone from a state of grace
in ghostly guise.
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~ Harley White
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The poem is in the form of a rondeau…
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Info & image ~ Arp-Madore 2026-424 (ESA Hubble Org)…
https://esahubble.org/images/heic1919a/
Explanation: This image from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope captures two galaxies of equal size in a collision that appears to resemble a ghostly face. The observation was made on 19 June 2019 in visible light by the telescope’s Advanced Camera for Surveys… Residing 704 million light-years from Earth, this system is catalogued as Arp-Madore 2026-424 (AM 2026-424) in the Arp-Madore “Catalogue of Southern Peculiar Galaxies and Associations”.
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Image credit: NASA, ESA, J. Dalcanton, B.F. Williams, and M. Durbin (University of Washington)
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