Stardust in Aries (The Lesser Blue Stars) Credit & Copyright: Alessandro Falesiedi
Explanation: This composition in stardust covers almost 2 degrees on the sky, close to the border of the zodiacal constellation Aries and the plane of our Milky Way Galaxy. At the lower right of the gorgeous skyscape is a dusty blue reflection nebula surrounding a bright star cataloged as van den Bergh 13 (vdB 13), about 1,000 light-years away. At that estimated distance, the cosmic canvas is over 30 light-years across. Also surrounded by scattered blue starlight, vdB 16 lies toward the upper left, while dark dusty nebulae sprawl across the scene. Near the edge of a large molecular cloud, they can hide newly formed stars and young stellar objects or protostars from prying optical telescopes. Collapsing due to self-gravity, the protostars form around dense cores embedded in the molecular cloud.
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Among The Lesser Blue Stars
On my route, heaven
bound, I heard you call me back
and I have come here
to breathe with you now.
It is no small feat, to sing
me home. I was far
among the lesser
blue stars, crossing comet-like,
all ice and gray snow.
September 9, 2009 12:58 PM
Oh, thank you, how very elegant!!
ReplyDeleteThank you for reading. :)
ReplyDeleteIt's amazing how you say so much with so few words. It makes me wonder how many of my words are refuse. Listen more, speak less. Ahhhhh.
ReplyDeleteBut at other times, dear Annie, I am a veritable vomiting fount of words. When I was small my dad complained I talk too much and nothing has changed. I live alone but that doesn't stop me...I have long since decided that talking to myself is not bad, nor is answering myself. When three or more are speaking and I'm the only guy present, then we are in trouble.
ReplyDeleteI especially hate the buzzards who talk to me at 3AM, perching where convenient to give me the vulture eye. There are often more than two of them and that is not amusing.