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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)... |
| Working inThe Closet |
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| Poetry Cycles - Poems of Transition | |||
| Lisa Jain Thompson | |||
| Thursday, 04 January 2007 15:29 | |||
 Working in The Closet
I work in the five sided closet,
Five quiet walls where no one tells,
No one asks for fear of the answer,
No one dares to question the system.
You can walk the miles of corridors for years
Without ever finding someone who admits to queer.
I work in the pixeled world of dark and light
Where everything is image and people only numbers
To downsize or expand. Nothing is what it seems.
I slip slowly towards myself, inch by inch,
Hair by hair so to speak, towards the moment
When no one can deny who I am or where I've been.
L. J. Thompson
Copyright 2001
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