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# Poem: Triple sunset
- URL: https://jatan.space/triple-sunset/
- Published: 2020-11-28T11:59:24.000Z
- Updated: 2026-01-16T08:49:24.000Z
- Author: Jatan Mehta
- Tags: Verses

*Here lies the bathing light of the red dragon,* 
*deepening horizons on a world so foreign*

*Yet much like a haven that is our Earth,* 
*there could be water on its surface unhurt*

*Could there be life too on this land of the triple-star,* 
*would they also figure out who they are?*

*Would they comprehend the distant binary-star show?* 
*that they are the suns of the one they know*

*Oh what a view it would be,* 
*for life there to see*

*But if on that world* 
*there isn’t any,* 
*let it be the carved destiny of humanity.*

![A near-sunset view with mountains and the sea beyond, as imagined for an exoplanet in a system of three suns. The other two distant suns shine to the right of the big one about to set.](https://jatan.space/content/images/2025/10/gliese-667-Cc.jpg)

This artist’s impression shows a near-sunset seen from the super-Earth Gliese 667 Cc. The brightest star in the sky is the red dwarf Gliese 667 C, which is part of a triple star system. [Image: ESO / L. Calçada](https://www.eso.org/public/images/eso1214a)

**Poem notes:** This is a poetic follow-up to my article ‘[How Isaac Asimov used science fiction to point out our biases](https://journal.jatan.space/using-scifi-to-point-our-biases)’. I’ve retrospectively discovered that the poem also relates to the vivid science fiction story of [The Three Body Problem](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/20518872-the-three-body-problem) by Cixin Liu.

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