Sleeping Beauty Galaxy

Sleeping Beauty tosses and turns as in a course contrary churns galactic realm outside the heart where further spatial spying smart more astronomic savvy learns. While telescopic eye sojourns through visionary sight discerns, the fairy talers too impart Sleeping Beauty. Enlightenment delusion spurns. As mortal flame’s desiring burns, in slumbered dreams our paths we chart and strive to craft a living art. Oh when will I awaken, yearns Sleeping Beauty? ~ Harley White * * * * * * * * * The poem is in the form of a rondeau… Some sources of inspiration were the following… Black Eye Galaxy (Wikipedia)… M64: The Sleeping Beauty Galaxy (APOD)… Explanation: The Sleeping Beauty galaxy may appear peaceful at first sight but it is actually tossing and turning. In an unexpected twist, recent observations have shown that the gas in the outer regions of this photogenic spiral is rotating in the opposite direction from all of the stars! The fascinating internal motions of M64, also cataloged as NGC 4826, are thought to be the result of a collision between a small galaxy and a large galaxy where the resultant mix has not yet settled down.