Carina Nebula, NASA, ESA, CSA, and STSci photo |
Doves repeat
the same song as yesterday
they sing it low, low, low
Deer in slender perfection
enter the cornfield
flanks disappearing
in rustle and gleam
Men in combustion
loud in the moment
chasing the next thing
sudden and brief
Everything vanishes
into the future
Wind rocks the chair
—Upon seeing the first images from the Webb Space Telescope revealing a previously invisible area of star birth. The "peaks" in the image above are themselves seven light-years high.