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Cassiopeia A

was a super star, beautiful and bright

She held a special place among the stars

of night

One of the brightest luminaries

to ever kiss the sky

But the brightest of all the luminaries

always die

in a thermonuclear explosion

And so it was with Cassiopeia A

that when she got tired of shining one day

she threw her stardust

across the Milky Way

and said goodbye in a vault of light

that could be seen

by day or night

She had grown weary of being so bright

and threw her clothing off

across the night

and there she remains today

naked amid her negligee

as a super-fluid

Neutron Star

Now so dense, that her super-conductive body

weighs in at six billion tons

per teaspoon

The remnant of a super-nova

amid her nebula

eleven thousand light-years from earth

No longer the brightest among the bright

but still she speaks

as the strongest radio source pulsing in the sky

beyond our solar system

as her nebula negligee, continually floats away

with beautiful streaming tendrils

expanding at an angular velocity rate

of fourteen thousand

and five hundred kilometers per second

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