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New Stars
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New stars are formed unceasingly
in never-ending majesty
to luminate the heavens’ glow
as skies put on nocturnal show
in darkened vault of filigree.
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Some feel a flash of ecstasy
and into vast beyonds would flee
as earthlings sensing here below
new stars are formed.
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For dust of stellars all are we
perchance from others born to be,
cast ‘round the cosmos to and fro
while we attempt to row, row, row,
as from the astral tracery
new stars are formed.
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~ Harley White
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The poem is in the form of a rondeau…
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This nebula, near the star cluster NGC 2074, is a firestorm of raw stellar creation.
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https://science.nasa.gov/missions/hubble/hubble-unveils-colorful-and-turbulent-star-birth-region-on-100000th-orbit-milestone/
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About 170,000 light-years away, this region is within the Large Magellanic Cloud – a satellite galaxy to our own Milky Way Galaxy – which is a fascinating, relatively nearby cosmic laboratory for astronomers to observe how stars form and evolve.
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Image credit: NASA, ESA, and M. Livio (STScI)
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