Earendel, “Morning Star” who twinkled bright within six million years of Cosmic Birth – the eldest star we can see in the night for now, with current optics, near the Earth – though Hubble can resolve you as a star we have a mirrored honeycomb in place that corrects for the light stretched to IR. […]
Read more "Sharper Cosmos"Appreciating, once tentacles point it out, what it is you see.
Read more "Alien Tourism"Bob sets out to explore a black hole.
Alice thinks she witnesses his demise.
Bob may return, but his time frame is no longer Alice’s.
Alice loved a space pilot named Bob. When she thinks of him, she chokes a sob, for he saw a black sphere, flying in, got too near and became a spaghettified blob.
Read more "SINGULIMERICK"More HiRISE photos can be found here: https://www.uahirise.org/catalog/
Read more "Martian Ink"Relativity’s a funny thing.
Read more "RELATIVE TIME"It’s not in a far distant galaxy. It’s less than a thousand light years away – This gassy rope of stellar nursery a sine wave, crisscrossing our Milky Way. Nine thousand light years long, not far from Earth, astronomers today just noticed it. Although parts of it were seen giving birth, our optics […]
Read more "THE RADCLIFFE WAVE (“More Things in Heaven …”)"BETELGEUSE (Big Orange Ball Of Hot Air) An elderly giant, beyond your time,. you were the candidate most thought might blow; you fit the classic, tragic paradigm. All focused on you, expecting a show … “The hotter the star, the briefer its span.” When recently you began to look dim, we hoped to […]
Read more "BETELGEUSE (Big Orange Ball Of Hot Air)"ICARUS STAR Gravity makes a “magnifying glass” out of the space that it causes to bend — a cosmic telescope that can surpass those on or around the Earth, and extend our visual range by two thousand fold, with a billions of light years focal length, allowing us to see a star so old, nine […]
Read more "Icarus Star"AGE OF THE UNIVERSE Indulging in lots of dark energy, she begins to grow detached and aloof. Though parts of her are still quite attractive, she’s expanded substantially since youth, no longer can touch her extremities and has lost some of her former sparkle. She remembers when she was much hotter – […]
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BARD OF MARS 