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Phantasmal Realms
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Phantasmal realms are seen on high
as seeming ghosts that death defy,
galactical in cosmic ways
while visioned in a spectral haze,
unwilling still to bid goodbye.
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‘Midst earthly days we live and die
immersed in pains and pleasures nigh
as inwardly we tend to praise
phantasmal realms.
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Yet deep within some may descry
in lieu of insubstantial sky
or pageantry of mortal phase,
reality that life obeys,
an inner world beyond where lie
phantasmal realms.
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~ Harley White
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The poem is in the form of a rondeau…
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Some sources of inspiration were the following…
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Hubble Sees Galaxy in a Ghostly Haze…
https://www.nasa.gov/image-feature/goddard/2023/hubble-sees-galaxy-in-a-ghostly-haze
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Image: Hubble captures lenticular galaxy NGC 6684…
https://phys.org/news/2023-08-image-hubble-captures-lenticular-galaxy.html
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Explanation: The Hubble Space Telescope has captured a stunning image of the lenticular galaxy NGC 6684, located approximately 44 million light-years away in the Pavo constellation. Lenticular galaxies have a lens-shaped appearance with no prominent spiral arms, putting them between elliptical and spiral galaxies in terms of structure. NGC 6684 stands out with its diffuse ghostly appearance, further accentuated by the absence of dark dust lanes found in other galaxies.
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Image credit: ESA/Hubble & NASA, R. Tully
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