- Check out this wonderful poem on the old nursery rhyme "Twinkle Twinkle Little Star"! I so shamelessly nicked it from the Wikipedia!
Twinkle Twinkle Little StarI know exactly what you are
- Opaque ball of hot dense gasMillion times our planet's massLooking small because you're farI know exactly what you are
- Fusing atoms in your coreHydrogen, helium, carbon and moreWith such power you shine farTwinkle twinkle little star
- Classed by their spectroscopyOh, Be A Fine Girl Kiss MeBright when close and faint when farI know exactly what you are
- Smallest ones burn cool and slowStill too hot to visit, thoughRed stars dominate by farTwinkle twinkle little star
- Largest ones are hot and blueSupernova when they're throughThen black hole or neutron starI know exactly what you are
- Our Sun's average as stars goFormed 5 billion years agoHalfway through its life so farTwinkle twinkle little star
- Forming from collapsing cloudsCold and dusty gas enshroudsSpinning, heating protostarI know exactly what you are
So, How is it? I only wish I knew who the original author of this poem is! I swear, I'd hug the person and gift him a rubber mallet! :DOften forming multiplyClusters bound by gravityOpen type or globularTwinkle twinkle little star
I know the original author! What's with the rubber mallet?
ReplyDeleteHi Jason, You're so lucky to know someone who was genius enough to pen something like that down!
ReplyDeleteAs for the rubber mallet, there are so many ways to use that thing... though frankly speaking right now, all I can think of doing is whacking random errant people who underestimate Grammar and Physics!
Authors are Julia Kregenow and Jason Wright, astronomers at Penn State University. We're glad you like it!
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