Sweet sisters Pleiades
Peer out from their nursery nebula
New baby stars
Half the age of the chalk hills
I live upon
Copyright © 2020 Kim Whysall-Hammond
The Cheesesellers Wife
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Sweet sisters Pleiades
Peer out from their nursery nebula
New baby stars
Half the age of the chalk hills
I live upon
Copyright © 2020 Kim Whysall-Hammond
Love it. This is the best time of year for stargazing with the Sisters overhead and Orion rising. If only Betelgeuse would either brighten back up or explode already.
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It has taken several decades for me to persuade my husband that Betelgeuse can be seen as red. She is like an old friend to me, so although I really want to see an stellar explosion in the sky, I would be very sad to her go….
Sods law says she explodes in summer, when I can’t see it.
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Beautiful! I love looking up at the stars at night from our deck. I had no idea the Pleiades were young stars! Thank you for teaching me something today.
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Hi Laurie — as they say. glad to be of service! :)
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love the nursery metaphor and like you I am fascinated by cosmic time
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Astronomers (of which I was once one) actually do use the term “stellar nursery” :)
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I remember learning about this as a child. I was fascinated about the constellations and the 7 sisters was my favorite. Neat piece!
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Reblogged this on Collecting Reality and commented:
Another Science poem from Kim:
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