The IAU’s Ruling

The International Astronomical Union’s Ruling Consider the new rules for planets that lessened our number of planets to eight, demoting Pluto, due to new format about how a planet must astrogate. Though Pluto has enough mass to be round, and orbits uniquely about our Sun, it fails (as its path has “clutter” around) at planetary […]

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MIRI, MIRI ON L2

THE IMAGERY OF IMAGES
This haiku to MIRI (Mid InfraRed Imager) begins of a new era, commemorating in enraptured ekphrasistic poetry the wonders NASA shares in their ever-improving, cosmic images.

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Sharper Cosmos

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. […]

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