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| The sands of time are running out for the central star of this the Hourglass Nebula. With its nuclear fuel exhausted, this brief, spectacular, closing phase of a sun-like star's life occurs as its outer layers are ejected and its core becomes a cooling, fading white dwarf. In 1995, astronomers used the Hubble Space Telescope to make a series of images of planetary nebulae, including the one above. Here, delicate rings of colorful glowing gas (nitrogen-red, hydrogen-green, and oxygen-blue) outline the tenuous walls of the 'hourglass.' The unprecedented sharpness of Hubble's images revealed surprising details of the nebula ejection process and may resolve the outstanding mystery of the variety of complex shapes and symmetries of planetary nebulae. Image Credit: NASA, WFPC2, HST, R. Sahai and J. Trauger (JPL)... |
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| Poetry Cycles - Doing Sappho | |||
| Lisa Jain Thompson | |||
| Tuesday, 05 December 2006 10:25 | |||
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Phases
by Sappho Completed by L. J. Thompson
Mother, my muse, I'm sorry,
But I can't work my weaving tonight, For my sweet Aphrodite Has killed my magic With her love for that boy over there. She's overwhelmed with lust
For his little toy And her need to be filled with children. Such a silly girl sometimes.
She knows very well
I can fill her desires And that her and I are family. There's no need for her to marry, You can have babies without the shackles. But for now, she has left me wordless
And I must wait for her once again. Copyright Sappho 300 B. C. E. and Lisa Jain Thompson 1998 C.E.
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