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Star Galaxy

By Harley White posted 22 days ago

  

ESA/Webb, NASA & CSA, A. Leroy

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Star Galaxy

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Star Galaxy, a spiral kind,

has imagery that brings to mind

a star of wonderment on high

that gracefully adorns the sky

much like a monument enshrined.

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In Puppis group it’s been assigned,

a constellation that’s outlined

as stern of boat, to versify

star galaxy.

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Considered nearby as a find

with core of dust around which twined

a coiling cloud our scopes descry,

as to the heavens gazes fly

to this celestially designed

star galaxy.

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~ Harley White

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The poem is in the form of a rondeau…

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Spiral Galaxy NGC 2566 from Webb

ESA/Webb, NASA & CSA, A. Leroy

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NGC 2566 (MIRI image)…

https://esawebb.org/images/potm2412b/

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Image Description: A spiral galaxy, seen close-up. Its core is a round spot that glows intensely bright, crowned by eight long and spikes that extend across the galaxy, artefacts of the telescope’s structure. Its disc is an oval shape with edges made of very thick and cloudy arms of gas and dust, mostly blue but paler and brighter around patches of stars. Wisps of darker dust also fill the inner disc and swirl off the ends of the arms.


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