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Dying Star
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Oh dying star in heavens far,
how beauteous your remnants are!
While once conceived as gloomy scene,
chaotic, dark, on heavens’ screen,
your lovely lobes in Gemini
look likewise twin-like in the sky.
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Because your structure’s so complex
it tended stargazers to vex.
Formerly watchers you confused
and left their thinking quite bemused
as to if you indeed were two
stellar vestiges brought to view.
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Then after more studies were made
it was found that your escapade
resulted in ultimate blaze
at end of sidereal phase
till only star relic remained,
thus astronomers have explained.
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A nebula planetary
is in science dictionary
how your region’s designated
though to planet not related.
NGC two three seven one
and two formed when a star like Sun
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was ready to expire at last,
and so you made your dying blast
of outer layers, shedding hence
basic material to thence
leave some astral traces behind
all mortal beings to remind…
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If we’re to stars somehow akin,
then dying might bear birth within.
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~ Harley White
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Image and info ~ Hubble Captures Dynamic Dying Star…
https://science.nasa.gov/missions/hubble/hubble-captures-dynamic-dying-star/
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This atmospheric image taken with the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope shows a dark, gloomy scene in the constellation of Gemini (the Twins). The subject of this image confused astronomers when it was first studied — rather than being classified as a single object, it was instead recorded as two objects, owing to its symmetrical lobed structure (known as NGC 2371 and NGC 2372, though sometimes referred to together as NGC 2371/2)…
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This Hubble image shows NGC 2371/2.
ESA/Hubble & NASA, R. Wade et al.
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