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Galactic Jellyfish
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Some galaxies streaming limbs of gas
look like ‘sea jellies’ that sprung en masse
long before dinosaurs came to pass,
many bell-shaped, translucent as glass.
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Galaxy JO2 Zero 6
within the constellational mix
Aquarian lies ‘midst cosmic seas,
its seeming tendrils trailing at ease.
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Jellyfish, can you immortal be,
shape-shifting beyond what we can see?
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Nicknamed for creature, its look alike
down to each crisscrossed diffraction spike
which has neither brain, nor blood, nor heart,
withal a different sort of smart,
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that can propel itself with a swish
though an invertebrate, not a fish,
this one galactic in heavens’ skies
is ‘mongst spatial oceans, vast in size.
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Jellyfish, can you immortal be,
shape-shifting beyond what we can see?
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By means of biological change
renewals transformed within its range,
jellyfish type ‘immortal’ they call
has managed death to evermore stall.
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Unthinkable is infinity
just as to any ending decree
for cosmic beyonds visionally
from which our sensibilities flee.
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Jellyfish, can you immortal be,
shape-shifting beyond what we can see?
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What lies behind the curtain of doubt
whether we humans ever find out,
within the heavens’ ceaseless expanse
where untold galaxies dance their dance
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shall with Aquarius’ jellie swim
through cosmic tides far further than scrim
of what our nascent senses permit
to cross beyond what is seen as fit.
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Jellyfish, can you immortal be,
shape-shifting beyond what we can see?
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~ Harley White
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Some sources of inspiration were the following…
Jellyfish (Wikipedia)…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jellyfish
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Turritopsis dohrnii, also known as the immortal jellyfish (Wikipedia)…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turritopsis_dohrnii
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Jellyfish Galaxy (Wikipedia)…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jellyfish_galaxy
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Info & image: Hubble observes jellyfish galaxy JO206…
https://phys.org/news/2023-06-image-hubble-jellyfish-galaxy-jo206.html
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Image explanation: The jellyfish galaxy JO206 trails across this image from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope, showcasing a colorful star-forming disk surrounded by a pale, luminous cloud of dust. A handful of foreground bright stars with crisscross diffraction spikes stands out against an inky black backdrop at the bottom of the image. JO206 lies over 700 million light-years from Earth in the constellation Aquarius.
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Credit: ESA/Hubble & NASA, M. Gullieuszik and the GASP team
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