Andromeda Spiral Galaxy: infrared image from Spitzer Space Telescope, 2005 (NASA/JPL-Caltech/P. Barmby, Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics)
Andromeda you give birth to new stars in your vast dusty arms
Swaths of red dust in wide lanes spin round
Twisting all the way into your center to be born
At your core smooth seas of older blue stars burn unregarding
At your heart crammed full of astral creation
Everything is dominated by starlight
Andromeda Spiral Galaxy: infrared image from Spitzer Space Telescope, 2003 (NASA/JPL-Caltech/K. Gordon, U. of Arizona)
Stunning.
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