{"id":207,"date":"2016-02-05T06:59:54","date_gmt":"2016-02-05T06:59:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thepoetryofscience.peachpuff-wolverine-566518.hostingersite.com\/?p=207"},"modified":"2016-02-05T07:05:32","modified_gmt":"2016-02-05T07:05:32","slug":"you-were-once-a-star","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/scienceblog.com\/thepoetryofscience\/207\/you-were-once-a-star\/","title":{"rendered":"You Were Once a Star"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So you were once a star that could not shine;<\/p>\n<p>Your mass too low, reactions could not start.<\/p>\n<p>A lonely planet, that was your design;<\/p>\n<p>There was no fusion in your gaseous heart.<\/p>\n<p>But now it seems that you are just a part<\/p>\n<p>Of some celestial pattern in the sky.<\/p>\n<p>You orbit a true star; its path you chart,<\/p>\n<p>And as a million million miles drift by<\/p>\n<p>You are no longer lonely, but your past must die.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_208\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-208\" style=\"width: 290px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/scienceblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2016\/02\/Alone_in_Space_-_Astronomers_Find_New_Kind_of_Planet.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-208\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-208\" src=\"https:\/\/scienceblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2016\/02\/Alone_in_Space_-_Astronomers_Find_New_Kind_of_Planet-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"Artist's conception of a Jupiter-sized lonely (or floating) planet (Photo Credit: NASA\/ JPL-Caltech) \" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-208\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em>Artist&#8217;s conception of a Jupiter-sized lonely (or floating) planet (Photo Credit: NASA\/ JPL-Caltech)<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>This is a <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Spenserian_stanza\" target=\"_blank\">Spenserian stanza<\/a> based on a <a href=\"http:\/\/arxiv.org\/abs\/1601.06162\" target=\"_blank\">recent piece of research<\/a> which found that an object that had previously been thought to be a rogue planet (a lone planet that was simply too small to form the nuclear reactions that enable stars to exist), is in fact a large planet that orbits a distant star. This distance between the star (TYC 9486-927-1) and the planet (2MASS J2126) is 1 trillion km, which equates to roughly 7000 times the distance between the Earth and the Sun.<\/p>\n<p>An audio version of this poem can be heard <a href=\"https:\/\/macguffin.io\/sam-illingworth\/you-were-once-a-star\/read\/\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So you were once a star that could not shine; Your mass too low, reactions could not start. 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