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Taken off Juniper’s balcony early one spring morning.
Archive for November, 2007
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Inspired by a poem from Walt Whitman titled Osceola about a Seminole who was imprisoned by US troops in Florida (around 1830s).
Osceola died in captivity of a broken heart.
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Juniper before one of her ice skating competitions. I slipped in an Astronomy Picture Of the Day antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap070509.html photo of the Cone Nebula and the Snowflake Cluster for effect.
From the APOD website:
Strange shapes and textures can be found in the neighborhood of the Cone Nebula. These patterns result from the tumultuous unrest that accompanies the formation of the open cluster of stars known as NGC 2264, the Snowflake cluster. To better understand this process, a detailed image of this region was taken in two colors of infrared light by the orbiting Spitzer Space Telescope. Bright stars from the Snowflake cluster dot the field. These stars soon heat up and destroy the gas and dust mountains in which they formed. One such dust mountain is the famous Cone Nebula, visible in the above image on the left, pointing toward a bright star near the center of the field. The entire NGC 2264 region is located about 2,500 light years away toward the constellation of the Unicorn (Monoceros).
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Ever wondered what it would be like to have a close-up view of a nebula from your backyard. Well, here’s mine.
