An Einstein Ring Poem by Harley White

An Einstein Ring

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An Einstein ring is distant light
from galaxy in line of sight
that's bending ‘round to form a ring
aligned it seems with foreground thing
to make the spatial object bright;

thus magnified for us despite
its circumstances recondite,
as syzygy to image bring
an Einstein ring.

We're to this planet wed in quite
a perfect match for life just right
while ‘round our solar star we wing
in annual telluric fling,
perhaps viewed through from far-off height
an Einstein ring.

An Einstein Ring
POET'S NOTES ABOUT THE POEM
The poem is in the form of a rondeau… Some sources of inspiration were the following… Euclid Discovers Einstein Ring in Our Cosmic Backyard… Einstein Ring (Wikipedia) … The ring of light surrounding the center of the galaxy NGC 6505, captured by ESA's Euclid telescope, is an example of an Einstein ring. NGC 6505 is acting as a gravitational lens, bending light from a galaxy far behind it. Image credit: ESA/Euclid/Euclid Consortium/NASA, image processing by J.-C. Cuillandre, G. Anselmi, T. Li; CC BY-SA 3.0 IGO or ESA Standard Licence
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