Ode to 'z8_GND_5296'*
A galaxy was discovered today.
It sent its message and drifted further away.
Shifting from blue to red,
Lonely photons travelled across the cosmos to be read.
Electronic eyes scoured the blackness and we deciphered the story,
Of an object so distant in time, we had a birthing memory.
A hazy image of things for which there were no words,
But which we now know as suns, moons and worlds.
*http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v502/n7472/full/nature12657.html
It sent its message and drifted further away.
Shifting from blue to red,
Lonely photons travelled across the cosmos to be read.
Electronic eyes scoured the blackness and we deciphered the story,
Of an object so distant in time, we had a birthing memory.
A hazy image of things for which there were no words,
But which we now know as suns, moons and worlds.
*http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v502/n7472/full/nature12657.html
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