A Cosmic Eye Poem by Harley White

The poem is in the form of a rondeau… Some sources of inspiration were the following… Hubble Spies a Cosmic Eye… This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image features the spiral galaxy NGC 2566. Image credit: ESA/Hubble & NASA, D. Thilker This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image features the spiral galaxy, which sits 76 million light-years away in the constellation Puppis. A prominent bar of stars stretches across the center of this galaxy, and spiral arms emerge from each end of the bar. Because NGC 2566 appears tilted from our perspective, its disk takes on an almond shape, giving the galaxy the appearance of a cosmic eye…