Twinkle, twinkle, little star
I know exactly what you are.
Spectrographic scrutiny
Tells me of your chemistry
How far away you are from here
Your parallax makes very clear.
I can tell that you’re receding
By your doppler-shifted reading.
Why you twinkle’s common sense
Your light must pass thru turbulence.
Like a diamond in the sky,
Your carbon core’s the reason why.
With the data you provide,
You’ve been named and classified.
We’ve compiled all the facts
in a stellar almanac.
Put the Science on the shelf
Keep the answer to myself
Children need the mystery
Twinkle, twinkle, secretly.
