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Triple sunset

A poem on life in a multiple star system.

Nov 28, 2020
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An artist’s impression of a sunset as seen from a planet that goes around a star which itself is part of a triple star system. Credit: ESO, L. Calçada

Here lihe bathing light of the red dragon,
deepening horizons on a world so foreign

Yet much like a heaven that is our Earth,
there cobe water on its surface unhurt

Could there be life too on this land of the triple-star,
would they also figure out who they are?

Would they comprehend the distant binary-star show?
that they are the suns of the one they know

Oh what a view it would be,
for life there to see

But if on that world
there isn’t any,
let it be the carved destiny of humanity.


This is a poetic follow-up to my article How Isaac Asimov used science fiction to point out our biases

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