Dance of the Planets

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Dance of the Planets
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When I was a child I tuned in to a beautiful
fantasy
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Humans and Vulcans at peace, in the cosmic
community
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I'd look up to the sky at night And I'd ask
myself could it be right Are there planets like
ours around faraway stars Or are we all alone on
our planet Earth home?
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Are we whirling around imperceptibly? Caught up
in the dances of gravity? A random Galactic
anomaly Nine planets around the Sun
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Spinning and swirling, twirling and whirling
around the Sun
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Time marches on and astronomers hone their
technology
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Point their scopes to the sky with an eye to
unraveling the mystery
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And like the faintest of calls in the night Lies
a signal within a star's light!
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Like a beacon of hope in your burnt umber
sky the rising of 51 Pegasi
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Dancing almost imperceptibly. Backward and
forward from gravity A companion of closest
proximity. A planet around a star!!!
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At the edge of the Galaxy, clusters of
stars Their members a billion years older than
ours
hold wobbles of planets around their pulsars!
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They've had eons more time than we Is it
possible, could it be? Am I watching you,
watching me?
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And at the dawn of the twenty-first century The
dream has become a reality.
We're not quite as alone as we used to be there
are planets around the stars. Planets around the
stars!
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Spinning and swirling, twirling and whirling
Backward and forward, they're coming and going
Daytime and nighttime, summer and winter
Around the stars
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We've finally found them, there's planets around
them Around the stars!
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