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The stars call But we can never answer We can but look But never visit Fuzzy beautiful images Sent back for study By machines With names of great ones Long since dead Swirling nebulae The most beautiful colors imagined In shapes of horsehead and ***** Butterflies and other fantastic creatures Stars form connect the dot pages in the sky Named for Greek myths', and animals Pleiades, Orion, Pegasus, Andromeda Ursa major and minor, Cygnus The deep field picture Show us the breadth of the universe Galaxy upon galaxy Rings, and helix, and discs Planets we discover, the possibilities But we just know they are there Because of a wobble, or a dimming Of the star they orbit Light years separate us from our quarry Unsurmountable distances With today's technology Perhaps some day
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Sep 30, 2016
Sep 30, 2016 at 11:36 AM UTC
Astronomer's Lament
The stars call But we can never answer We can but look But never visit Fuzzy beautiful images Sent back for study By machines With names of great ones Long since dead Swirling nebulae The most beautiful colors imagined In shapes of horsehead and ***** Butterflies and other fantastic creatures Stars form connect the dot pages in the sky Named for Greek myths', and animals Pleiades, Orion, Pegasus, Andromeda Ursa major and minor, Cygnus The deep field picture Show us the breadth of the universe Galaxy upon galaxy Rings, and helix, and discs Planets we discover, the possibilities But we just know they are there Because of a wobble, or a dimming Of the star they orbit Light years separate us from our quarry Unsurmountable distances With today's technology Perhaps some day
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Sep 30, 2016
Sep 30, 2016 at 11:36 AM UTC
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