‘Like Salt Sprinkled on Black Velvet’
NASA published this Image of the Day with the headline “Like Salt Sprinkled on Black Velvet.” The image is of a faint newly-discovered dwarf galaxy UGC 5497. Image credit: ESA/NASA
This galaxy
glittering
with rhinestones
and blue
high notes,
the full-throated
birth of stars–
fame clinging
to the plush
darkness.
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