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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)... |
| 4. Stranger in a Strange Land |
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| Poetry Cycles - Mars West | |||
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| Tuesday, 31 December 1996 21:00 | |||
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(41° N 9.5° W)
I look out across the Cydonia Plain,
Where mountains scatter beneath red skies
To face the millennia with crumbled majesty,
And the wind blown dust, with weathered persistence.
My imagination seeds cities where deserts stand,
Torrential rains where dioxide grows,
A monument there to ancient Martians,
A marker here for our tenuous settlement
That raises domes across the sands of Mars.
Come Join Us.
- 1997 -
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