Little Ghost Nebula Poem by Harley White

Little Ghost Nebula is what you are,
extra-solar looking lots like a star,
known too as NGC 6369,
planet-shaped, round, in a ring-like design.

You're also spoken of as being faint,
emitting light from the nebula quaint
with main ring structure a light-year across,
and glow from ionized atoms gives gloss

correspondingly of red, green, and blue,
nitrogen atoms with bright-colored hue.
Not to be stymied with Nebula Ghost
or Ghost Head Nebula, possibly dosed

with light released, perhaps binary kind.
Still shine emitted may yet bring to mind
some sort of beauteous prismatic craze
causing star-watchers to fasten their gaze

on Ophiuchus and thus to behold
a lovely nebula with truth untold.


~ Harley White