Celestial Ring Poem by Harley White

The poem is in the form of a villanelle. A source of inspiration was the following… James Webb Telescope Captures the Glowing Ring Nebula in Magnificent Detail (Smithsonian Magazine) … Explanation: The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has captured exquisite new images of the Ring Nebula, also known as Messier 57, a glowing orb of material strewn about the cosmos by a dying star some 4,000 years ago. The colorful ring, located some 2,600 light-years away from Earth, is made from the remnants of a dying star. The Ring Nebula is located in the Lyra constellation and is thought to have temperatures over 100,000 degrees. It is a remnant of a dying star that expelled much of its mass into space, and the images show close-ups of the nebula's wispy clouds and glowing rings. Image credit: NASA/ESA/CSA/Institute for Earth and Space Exploration/JWST Ring Nebula Imaging Project