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Birth of Stars
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The birth of stars in cosmic skies
could life and death epitomize,
and though we’re but a dot in space,
our earthly home with azure face
might mirror all that lives and dies.
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The morning rays that luminize
in shining golden lantern guise
may seem in day’s ascent to trace
the birth of stars.
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For suns shall set and others rise
through midwife Mother Nature wise
who cradles all in vast embrace,
while through her everlasting grace
brings from sidereal demise
the birth of stars.
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~ Harley White
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The poem is in the form of a rondeau…
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Webb Celebrates First Year of Science With Close-up on Birth of Sun-like Stars…
https://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/2023/webb-celebrates-first-year-of-science-with-new-image
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Explanation: The first anniversary image from NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope displays star birth like it’s never been seen before, full of detailed, impressionistic texture. The subject is the Rho Ophiuchi cloud complex, the closest star-forming region to Earth. It is a relatively small, quiet stellar nursery, but you’d never know it from Webb’s chaotic close-up. Jets bursting from young stars crisscross the image, impacting the surrounding interstellar gas and lighting up molecular hydrogen, shown in red. Some stars display the telltale shadow of a circumstellar disk, the makings of future planetary systems.
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Credits: NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI, Klaus Pontoppidan (STScI)
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