A Praise Poem to Orion
A Praise Poem in celebration of Bellatrix and all the women and hunters, who are close to our hearts.
Tonight we gather to sing scientific songs of praise to Orion and all hunters.
Against a star speckled dome we find the firm bright shoulders of the Hunter, Betelgeuse and Bellatrix. But now I wonder, should we upend convention and follow Herschel’s heed when viewing the constellation from a Southern Sky and name Rigel and Saiph the shoulders of Orion, while the knees bend through nodes and vectors of Betelgeuse and Bellatrix.
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