Sidereal Generations

My genealogical family tree was traced by a relative distant, thus uncovering ancestral names for me, of some who had seemed nonexistent. The past came alive in my fantasy world with visions of settings dramatic, as I felt myself in scenario hurled that verged on a theme operatic. Some fancies akin rose from imagery mix of five different wavelengths and hues in Wide Field, of NGC one eight six six, with orange-red old stars, young in blues. It’s a globular cluster considered strange in Dorado constellation found, with sidereal periods of wide range, hence a stelliferous bunch renowned. One hundred sixty thousand light-years away from Earth, at Large Magellanic’s brink (a galaxy cloud turning round Milky’s sway), this massive multitude seems to sync youthful stars with others from former ages, through metallicity analyzed, dissimilar in stellar saga stages, which left astronomers quite surprised, because it appeared unexpectedly young. James Dunlop, credited with the act of discovery, still has his praises sung for listing a host of stars in fact. Indeed, it was in eighteen twenty-six that the Scottish stargazer spied the group noteworthy, and catalogued where it was at, assigning a label to the troop. In the case of this cluster Hubble captured with varied residents in the crowd, perhaps a new star batch was manufactured in rendezvous with a huge gas cloud, as in a cosmic orchestral creation with melodies that interrelate, scored by composer of stellar vocation for astronomical concert great. An opus like Handel’s, supernally grand, might sound and resound in the cluster, with symphonic reach universally spanned, in radiant star-studded luster, while music mellifluous echoes in spheres, or so my reveries rhapsodize, to harmonies chorused by stellary peers that resonate through celestial skies. Generations of humankind here on Earth, measured in cadenced metrical bars, could be likened to fugue theming death and birth… Might we be analogous to stars? ~ Harley White * * * * * * * * * Inspiration, image and info ~ Some of the Stars in this Cluster are Almost as Old as the Universe Itself While Others Formed in a Second Generation. It Looks Young and Old at the Same Time…