Celestial Bauble Poem by Harley White
Celestial Bauble
‘I'm forever bubbles blowing, '
might the macrocosm sing,
seeing how ripples keep growing
in bursts of celestial bling?
Supernova traces
ornament the sky,
effervescent faces,
ere they fade and die.
In the Large Magellanic Cloud,
a colorful creation
of a rounded gaseous shroud
has a long appellation
with numbers after SNR.
The image is suggestive
perhaps of cosmic brane afar
or stellar bauble festive.
It's thousands of light-years away
in Dorado's astral group.
This splendid optical display
resembles a soft-hued hoop.
From composite data was made
that spectacle to appear
like vast pastel balloon portrayed
as delicate-looking sphere.
Mysteries lie in space to probe,
and starry heights to explore,
while troubles on our earthly globe
plague mankind from shore to shore.
We're forever bubbles blowing,
building castles in the air,
lost in the coming and going
of life's too fleeting affair.
Death shall overtake us.
Is it what it seems?
Could that sleep awake us
to enlightened dreams?
Also ~ "Hubble Solves Mystery on Source of Supernova in Nearby Galaxy"…
Additional information came from article ~ "Hubble spots a celestial bauble"…
Further influence in the crafting of the stanzas derived from "I'm Forever Blowing Bubbles", a popular American song which debuted in 1918, was first published in 1919, and is now in the public domain.
Image ~ The ‘bubble' is all that remains of a supernova explosion witnessed on Earth about 400 years ago. The bubble-shaped shroud of gas is expanding at more than 11 million miles per hour or 5,000 kilometers per second. This image of Type Ia Supernova Remnant 0509-67.5 was made by combining data from two of NASA's Great Observatories. The result shows soft green and blue hues of heated material from the X-ray data surrounded by the glowing pink optical shell, which shows the ambient gas being shocked by the expanding blast wave from the supernova.
Credit: X-ray: NASA/CXC/SAO/J.Hughes et al, Optical: NASA/ESA/Hubble Heritage Team (STScI/AURA)
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