Celestial Amethyst

An amethyst ethereal was seen in Herculean constellation grand of gem’s celestial purple-splendored sheen within a dying star’s outreaching strand. In vivid planetary nimbus show its death in living color to portray the stellar rings around the rosy go like jewel from the lava in Pompeii. Midst Milky Way that cloud is most remote from scene of where is played this brief vignette with earthlings spinning out their anecdote while circling star half through its span— and yet past present immemorial amassed beyond our beingness shall everlast. ~ Harley White * * * * * * * * * The poem is a sonnet… Some sources of inspiration were the following… Archaeologists discovered an invaluable cache of ritual artifacts at Pompeii… Image and information ~ A Cosmic Amethyst in a Dying Star… Image explanation ~ This new image of IC 4593 has X-rays from Chandra in purple, invoking similarities to amethysts found in geodes around the globe. The bubble detected by Chandra is from gas that has been heated to over a million degrees. These high temperatures were likely generated by material that blew away from the shrunken core of the star and crashed into gas that had previously been ejected by the star.