15 Times NASA’s Tweets Could Have Been Poetry

You would expect that the folks at NASA to be experts in all things STEM, but it turns out that the agency's social media team have the souls of poets.

Mixed in with posts about new discoveries, more earth-bound projects and Q&A's with the astronauts on board the International Space Station are creative missives that briefly encapsulate the otherworldly images captured by NASA's powerful telescopes and spacecraft.

Check out some of NASA's most beautiful tweets below.

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Stars appear to create a misty fog in this galaxy, an irregular island in a sea of space:

— NASA (@NASA)

Puzzle this: Massive star deep in the Milky Way shows signs of being very old & very young:

— NASA (@NASA)

. shows a small, very dense star that ripped itself apart thousands of years ago

— NASA (@NASA)

Summer is the season for electric-blue sunsets created by a cloud type that gives clues on how the atmosphere works.

— NASA (@NASA)

Strands & arches of plasma streamed above the edge of the sun, spotted by :

— NASA (@NASA)

Like cosmic dancers, stars of the Pleiades cluster spin, but at different speeds. Details:

— NASA (@NASA)

This lopsided galaxy shows patches of blue, which signals the presence of young, hot stars:

— NASA (@NASA)

2 dwarf galaxies wandered in from cosmic wilderness to nearby “city” packed w/ galaxies:

— NASA (@NASA)

Cosmic blob & bubble could provide clues on past of a giant black hole & its host galaxy:

— NASA (@NASA)

Swirling pastels of Saturn’s clouds appear majestic in this false-color view:

— NASA (@NASA)

The green curtains of an aurora spanning over Canada, as seen from :

— NASA (@NASA)

Jupiter’s volcanic moon Io has a thin atmosphere that collapses in the shadow of the planet:

— NASA (@NASA)

Gaze at remnants of a long-dead star. Rippling wisps of ionized gas produce a faint glow:

— NASA (@NASA)

Chorus of black holes fills the entire sky — phenomenon called the cosmic X-ray background:

— NASA (@NASA)

Peering deep into the core of the Crab Nebula, reveals its beating heart: