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)... |
| Mythic Origins |
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| About - The Poet | |
| Lisa Jain Thompson | |
| Tuesday, 11 July 2006 12:50 | |
 Lisa Jain Thompson was born in the Sacramento River Delta of Northern California where the Sacramento, American, and San Joaquin Rivers meet and riverboats carried gold and gamblers down river to San Francisco. She was born halfway between the Fin de Siècle and the new millennium. Her birth is assumed to have been in the family house on the outskirts of Sacramento.
She probably attended a local parochial grammar school and college prep, followed by University. Although her father was prominent in the local broad media, she chose another path, teaching for a time at an academy, then pursuing various careers with various state and federal instruments of government. After her fist marriage, Lisa Jain left few traces on the literary scene until she reappeared as Starpoet, a decade before the century turned. The years between University and her re-emergence are known as her “lost years.” Lisa Jain died sometime in the latter half of the first century of the third millennium, survived by her wife Sharon, their eight children, numerous friends, an extended family, and the body of work known as Starpoet.
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