Whirlpool Wonders

The Whirlpool Galaxy of grand-design, a stately spiral with companion small, once held to be in gravity’s confine of greater galaxy’s imposing sprawl, is shown in sharpest image ever caught to have essentially been gliding past for myriads of years, beyond our thought, behind the Whirlpool’s classic swirling cast. A cosmic canvas visioned by Van Gogh limns canopy above from earth below as though he could intuit fluid flow of astral turbulence the skies bestow in Vincent’s Starry Night’s celestial dream with Whirlpool soaring o’er in stellar stream. ~ Harley White