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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)... |
| Pack Up Your Tents |
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| Poetry Cycles - Poems of Transition | |||
| Lisa Jain Thompson | |||
| Thursday, 04 January 2007 15:25 | |||
 Pack Up Your Tents
Pack up your tents,
Put the elephants away,
The lions and tigers
Are back in their cage,
The clowns have all washed
All the paint from their face,
There's no one left to laugh.
The trailers have dropped
Their loud garish facade,
The popcorn and candy
Are scattered on the ground,
The only sound
Is the roar of the trucks,
Everyone is leaving town.
I'm alone in the field
With the seagulls and pigeons,
The garbage and remnants
Of the crowd that was here,
The flags are all lowered,
The magic has gone,
It's time to move on once again.
L. J. Thompson
Copyright 2001
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