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The Aftermath

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The aftermath of star caved in

resembles an inverted grin

at least to my awestricken eyes

when viewing Chandra’s scopic guise

of Vela Pulsar’s stormy spin.

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From out of sonic spatial din

its throbbing tones in sound akin

were music scored to melodize

the aftermath.

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Pulsation glitches underpin

the tag of ‘rare’ it chanced to win,

precession caused perhaps in whys

of how this oddness might arise,

as neutron star came to begin

the aftermath.

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~ Harley White

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The poem is in the form of a rondeau…

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Some sources of inspiration were the following…

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Vela Pulsar (Wikipedia)…

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vela_Pulsar

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A Fab Five: New Images with NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory…

https://www.nasa.gov/missions/chandra/a-fab-five-new-images-with-nasas-chandra-x-ray-observatory/?utm_source=FBPAGE&utm_medium=NASA%27s+Hubble+Space+Telescope&utm_campaign=NASASocial

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Vela Pulsar with video (NASA)…

https://www.nasa.gov/missions/chandra/vela-pulsar/

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Vela Pulsar in 60 seconds (video)…

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pIoDD_TDsZI&ab_channel=ChandraX-rayObservatory

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The emissions of Vela and the pulsar PSR B0329+54 were converted into audible sound by French composer Gérard Grisey and used in the piece Le noir de l'étoile (1989–90)…

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=py-GyzXOHn0&ab_channel=RyanPower

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Vela Pulsar: By combining data from NASA’s Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer (IXPE, shown in light blue), Chandra (purple), and NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope (yellow), researchers are probing Vela, the aftermath of a star that collapsed and exploded and now sends a remarkable storm of particles and energy into space. IXPE shows the average orientation of the X-rays with respect to the jet in this image. 

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Image credit: NASA/CXC/SAO (Chandra), NASA/MSFC/F. Xie et al. (IXPE); Optical: NASA/ESA/STScI; Image processing: NASA/CXC/SAO/J. Schmidt, K. Arcand

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