by Julia Griffin

“For the first time, a much younger version of the Sun has been caught red-handed blowing bubbles in the galaxy, by astronomers using NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory. … Astronomers have nicknamed the HD 61005 star system the ‘Moth’ because it is surrounded by large amounts of dust patterned similarly to the shape of a moth’s wings when viewed through infrared telescopes.”
—The Good News Network

Caught red-handed blowing bubbles,
HD 61005,
Star of Chandra’s and of Hubble’s
Lenses, hail! You will survive

Longer, clearly, than our planet
In your bright balloon of froth
(Which, the more we strive to scan it,
More and more recalls a moth).

Sweet relief from earthly troubles,
Till we starve, or freeze, or fry,
Charm us please by blowing bubbles,
Red-hot bubbles in the sky.