Welcome!You have arrived at StarPoet, a comet falling toward morning. The poet's still here, Sappho's child, slightly disheveled.
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| A Chameleon Sky | ||
| 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)... |
| Where Are We? |
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| Poetry Cycles - Doing Sappho | |||
| Lisa Jain Thompson | |||
| Tuesday, 05 December 2006 10:31 | |||
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Where Are We?
Sappho
soft girl
once more I
have wandered
copyright circa 600 B.C.E.
LJ
softball girl
once more you
have walked me
and not spoken
copyright September 1998
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