Wednesday, January 31, 2007

covered horizon


Credit: Submillimetre Common-User Bolometer Array, James Clerk Maxwell Telescope, JAC


I would like to see
A flying saucer
Sometime before
I die.

I'd like to uncover
The truth within
And the alien answer
To why.

"Proto-cells" >>>

Wednesday, January 24, 2007

antiquark


Credit: psychovision.ch

The inflationary era
Of the early universe
In a small, hot, quantum state
Is incredibly perverse.

The so-called vacuum energy
Of a quantum field traverse
Will quickly change into a seething soup
In an elementary particle reverse.

Superstringtheory >>>

Saturday, January 20, 2007

different face


Credit: NASA/Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory/Southwest Research Institute.

A calming wake
A striking gaze
A wondrous image of
Heavenly phase.

A calming sense
A turbulent maze
A timeless image of
Atmospheric rage.

Long Range Reconnaissance Imager >>>

Thursday, January 18, 2007

fearful sights


Photo credit: Col. Brian Fields, USAF, ret
Jan. 9, 2007 near Van Buren, Arkansas

Sons of a strange God
and the daughters of men
choose not what they see
and never not what is when.

Giants unto the earth
from the beginning, then
are the Sons that emerge
from the strange daughters of men.

'Not of this world' >>>

Tuesday, January 16, 2007

Xanadu Regio


Credit: NASA/JPL/Space Science Institute

Composite compositions
Of steller renditions
Are insufficient to announce
What mysteries are aroused
By the lack, in fact, of a crater vision.

15 degrees south latitude >>>

Saturday, January 13, 2007

Tucana


Credit: NASA, ESA, and the Hubble Heritage Team (STScI/AURA)

high-energy radiation
blazing slowly away
is eroding itself
in a stable element decay.

its primitive nature
and its nuclear spray
lacks heavier elements
for a blowing cavity foray.

Small Magellanic Cloud >>>

attenuating gauze


Credit: NASA/JPL/Space Science Institute

Discover a time
Without feature
A marvelous detection
Of a creature
Enveloped by light
Undiscovered by sight
A hidden gift
From an unknown
Teacher.

Flanking Ice >>>

Friday, January 12, 2007

0.3-second exposure


Credit: Michael Jäger and Gerald Rhemann (Austria)

Parabolic orbits
In twilight skipping skies
Simply celebrates in causing
Fates predictable lies.

A parabolic image
Of a comets knowing whys
Produces catastrophic outcomes
With cataclysmic ties.

R. H. McNaught >>>

Thursday, January 11, 2007

backscatter blue


Credit: NASA/JPL/USGS

Radar-dark patches
From a new knowledge gain
Is a mesmerising image
A confirmed, Titan rain.

Liquid confirmations >>>

Thursday, January 04, 2007

Tigranes Crown


Credit: MPL 3D

The secret author
of cosmic cruelty
trembles in terror
from the power of
its beauty.

The secret author
of cosmic beauty
disguises its horror
and ignores its
own cruelty.

Monday, January 01, 2007

cygnus guardian


Credit: T. A. Rector (U. Alaska), WIYN, NOAO, AURA, NSF

boom
went a star
reaching past history, far
recorded by time
commanded to find
a signal, or a reason, from afar.

Witch's Broom Nebula >>>