What do you see on a starry, starry night?

What sights do you behold

On a starry, starry night

A dot-to-dot puzzle

With Pegasus taking flight?
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Why not take the time
To research and uncover
How the stars and planets
Let to sights to discover?

As you look up toward the night sky, what do you see? On a clear night it might be innumerable twinkling lights that test the wildest imagination. What we know today was at one time totally unfathomable until the stars barely visible exploded into view with the invention and use of the telescope for astronomy purposes. In addition to observing the skies, potential for safer navigation was recognized on land and at sea.
  

Heavenly Lights

The moon with its changing appearance

Amid twinkling lights of night skies

Cast light and shadows over the earth

In wonderment before all eyes

A vast luminous galactic formation

The Milky Way, a spiral system of stars

Too faint to be seen individually

Emitted a spirited glow from afar

With a powerful allure and romance

Venus like a diamond in the sky

Enchanted mankind with fascination

Scarcely visible to the naked eye

Enshrouded in wispy ice-crystal clouds

Reflecting stellar light like a mirror

Mars showed phases similar to the moon

As the telescope made it much clearer

Of course there's Uranus
Whose name provokes a joke
Discovery unveiled rings
But not made up of smoke

Rings of Saturn, four moons of Jupiter

Oh, Galileo, thank you for your sights

Revealing secrets barely visible

That once lay hidden within the nights

 

—Florence, Italy 1609

Along with a starry, starry night is often found musical enjoyment, relaxation, love and romance.

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