The Hubble Telescope has turned twenty years old today. <br />It's a far cry from Galileo's telescope in the Renaissance Era <br />This spatial observatory has presented mankind with view of God in a way <br />The magnificent telescope has produce a ''veritas aequitas vera'* <br />In some sort <br />The 'billions and billions' that was once stated by Carl Sagan <br />The Cosmos <br />It is far cry from a geocentric universe <br />Our sun is but a nano-speck in a sea in time and space <br />And we are, individually, a nano-speck to the 6.5 times power of 10 the 9th power <br /> -on a speck, that which is earth, that is in orbit <br />Around a blazing fusion of Hydrogen turning into Helium <br />And it's rays, of the electro-magnetic spectrum, <br />The Gamma rays, X-rays, Ultra-Violet and Angstroms of light <br />There is little to disguise, <br />Which we perceive on our skin and our eyes, <br />But Hubble has better eyes, infra-red, ultra-violet, and microwaves <br />The Hubble Telescope has seen back into time <br />In a way, it's a time machine, -the way it behaves. <br />Dark matter, Black Holes, Event Horizons to name but a few <br />The Flat Earth Society**, WHO? <br />The birth and death of stars, <br />No, not in Hollywood or Bollywood, <br />Seeing planets from far away, million of light years away, <br />Not scenes of Mars <br />But scenes of planetary movements that were lost in a shroud <br />Of atmospheric obscurity. <br />Edwin, you and your moniker telescope have made us proud. <br /> <br /> <br />4-24-10 <br /> <br /> <br />http: //www.morningcity.com/mc/featured/10083713.htm <br />*http: //www.google.com/#hl=en&source=hp&q=meaning+of+veritas+aequitas&aq=0&aqi=g1g-c4g-m1&aql=&oq=meaning+of+veritas&gs_rfai=&fp=3f73b7d243bf661 <br />**http: //en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flat_Earth_Society<br /><br />Joe Rosochacki<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/happy-birthday-hubble/
