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The Hubble ULLYSES

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Blind Homer, Greek poet, who saw beyond sight,

composed the great epic, the Odyssey tale

of Odysseus, Latin Ulysses, quite

iconic as hero, in ten-year travail

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who strove in voyage legendary in scope

to find his way home after decade-long war

‘midst obstacles monstrous, past limits of hope

through thick and through thin to his Ithaca shore.

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ULLYSES, here acronym for Hubble plan

of Legacy Library of astrals young,

is studying two fledgling star types in scan,

both super-hot, massive and blue ones unsung

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as yet, such as in thirty Doradus zone

or Tarantula Nebula within Cloud

the Large Magellanic as region is known

ultraviolet light lit thus to unshroud

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energetic processes of stars just made

in high-resolution views newly displayed,

by dear Mother Nature in cosmic brocade,

with applauding stargazers in accolade.

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Emissions like these by this Hubble highlight

the hottest material at least in part

like vast spatial window or maybe skylight,

through building a dataset state of the art.

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This input astronomers will provide aid

in learning how stars form and of their makeup;

to attain this, various factors are weighed

that perhaps may bring about call for wake up

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to new information that yet we may glean

plus even concerning ourselves, since we are,

though seldom acknowledged and often unseen,

each fashioned of fabric begot from a star,

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which brings us back home to the beings that we

of all possibilities happen to be

on planet that suits earthly life to a T

and seems truly rare in the universe sea…

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Yet wonder on wonder seems still to unfold

in endless immenseness of marvels untold.

How many amazements might still we behold

ere way of all flesh leaves our beingness cold?

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~ Harley White

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Inspiration derived from the following…

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Odysseus (Wikipedia)…

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

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Odyssey (Wikipedia)…

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

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Hubble’s ULLYSES Program ~ Hubble’s Ultraviolet Legacy Library of Young Stars as Essential Standards…

https://hubblesite.org/mission-and-telescope/hubbles-ullyses-program

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Three-Year Study of Young Stars with NASA’s Hubble Enters New Chapter (NASA)…

https://science.nasa.gov/missions/hubble/three-year-study-of-young-stars-with-nasas-hubble-enters-new-chapter/

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ULLYSES ~ Hubble UV Legacy Library of Young Stars as Essential Standards…

https://ullyses.stsci.edu/

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Explanation: This comprehensive survey, called ULLYSES (Ultraviolet Legacy Library of Young Stars as Essential Standards), was completed in December 2023, and provides a rich spectroscopic dataset obtained in ultraviolet light that astronomers will be mining for decades to come. Because ultraviolet light can only be observed from space, Hubble is the only active telescope that can accomplish this research…

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This image shows a star-forming region known as 30 Doradus, one of the regions observed as part of ULLYSES.

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Image credit: NASA, ESA, and F. Paresce (INAF-IASF, Bologna, Italy), R. O'Connell (University of Virginia, Charlottesville), and the Wide Field Camera 3 Science Oversight Committee