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What Seest Thou?
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What seest thou, T Tauri star
from time’s abysm where you are?
What seest thou from outer space
of our unvalued place of grace,
so seeming near and yet so far?
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Your backward dark may look bizarre
remote from tinctures of Renoir,
in stellar fluctuant embrace
what seest thou?
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Perhaps you’ll grow like Sun’s memoir
before you bid your au revoir;
meantime, ‘midst marvels we would chase,
your triple system’s special case
might furnish facts that raise the bar,
what seest thou?
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~ Harley White
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The poem is in the form of a rondeau…
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Inspiration derived from the following…
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What seest thou else In the dark backward and abysm of time?
~ Shakespeare, “The Tempest”
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Hubble Views the Dawn of a Sun-like Star
https://science.nasa.gov/image-detail/hubble-hptau-wfc3-1-flat-finalok/
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Info and explanation: In this image from NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope, the triple-star system is made up of the variable star HP Tau, HP Tau G2, and HP Tau G3. HP Tau is known as a T Tauri star, a type of young variable star that hasn’t begun nuclear fusion yet but is beginning to evolve into a hydrogen-fueled star similar to our Sun. T Tauri stars tend to be younger than 10 million years old ― in comparison, our Sun is around 4.6 billion years old…
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Image Credit: NASA, ESA, G. Duchene (Universite de Grenoble I); Image Processing: Gladys Kober (NASA/Catholic University of America)
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