Aniara Choir - with undiminished speed toward Lyra’s stars...

Rike Ensamble - Gunnar Eriksson
Aniara sång 13 from the science fiction poem written by Swedish Nobel laureate Harry Martinson in 1956.
Image: 360-degree panoramic image, covering the entire southern and northern celestial sphere. Credit: ESO/S. Brunier
Music: Jonas S Bohlin - Aniara sång 13 from Chromatic Congruence Choir.
Translated from the Swedish by Klass, S. & Sjoberg, L. USA: Story Line Press.
Notes for Aniara, from Stephen Klass & Leif Sjoberg’s edition (1998) Goldonder Aniara: The name for the type of spacecraft most likely derives from the Swedish gondol, “gondola.” One possible derivation for the name “Aniara” may be the Greek aniaros, “in distress” (2).