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So Brightly Shine
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So brightly shine the stars on high
illumining the nightly sky
in cluster globular at times
or classic stellar paradigms
to astral gazers stupefy.
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Such sights our senses still belie
although savants will proofs supply
about wherefore the starry climes
so brightly shine.
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In vaults of heaven far and nigh
those wonderments may catch our eye
to spark some bards’ poetic primes
eliciting celestial rhymes
sidereal, as they thereby
so brightly shine.
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~ Harley White
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The poem is in the form of a rondeau…
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How White Dwarfs Get Their ‘Kicks’…
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https://science.nasa.gov/missions/hubble/how-white-dwarfs-get-their-kicks/
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Explanation: This star cluster glitters with the light from hundreds of thousands of stars. At 7,800 light-years away, this is one of the closest globular clusters to Earth. Globular clusters are roughly spherical collections of stars bound together by their mutual gravity. The cluster’s blue stars are near the end of their lives. These stars have used up their hydrogen fuel that makes them shine. Now, they're converting helium to energy in their cores, which fuses at a higher temperature – resulting in a blue color.
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Image credit: NASA, ESA, and H. Richer (University of British Columbia)
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