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I'm a geek. No. Really. Really geeky. And I write poetry. And I read poetry. I'm an English teacher to-be.
Astro-Poetry: A Collection (#2: Top 14 Astronomy Pictures of 2010 Challenge)
The Challenge: To use Phil Plait’s choices on his Bad Astronomy blog for Top 14 Astronomy Photos of 2010 as inspiration for new poetry.
NGC 6934 (globular cluster) http://angwe.tumblr.com/post/10381305661/a-glittering-jewel-fades-in-the-distance-and
Titan and Rhea (Saturnian moons): http://angwe.tumblr.com/post/10381598834/one-is-unnamed-the-other-is-mother-of-the-new
Boulder Tracks on the Lunar Surface: http://angwe.tumblr.com/post/10381887047/a-short-walk-becomes-an-epic-journey-viewed-on
NGC 1514 (WISE infrared image of a dying star): http://angwe.tumblr.com/post/10382948953/look-out-beyond-what-you-can-see-and-hear-the
Mars (arctic landscape from the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter’s HiRISE camera): http://angwe.tumblr.com/post/10383172664/alien-landscape-only-a-planet-away-where-deadly
Sun (composite image of surface and corona from Alan Friedman): http://angwe.tumblr.com/post/10383560285/a-giver-of-life-that-stands-so-close-and-burns
AFGL 3068 (Hubble long-exposure of a dying binary star): http://angwe.tumblr.com/post/10384029844/the-last-dance-is-lit-only-by-the-distant
Asteroid Lutetia (Shot from Rosetta space probe, on a mission to encounter a comet in 2014): http://angwe.tumblr.com/post/10384525605/merovingian-lineage-glimpsed-only-briefly-in-the
Asteroid Collision (detected by LINEAR, imaged by Hubble): http://angwe.tumblr.com/post/10385028978/unknown-impact-like-a-nuclear-bomb-in-the-sky
Whirlpool Galaxy (M51, imaged 2005, reprocessed 2010): http://angwe.tumblr.com/post/10385488835/a-swirling-exchange-of-stars-and-nebulae-between
Aurora Australis (The Southern Lights, image taken by unknown astronaut aboard the ISS): http://angwe.tumblr.com/post/10386307604/streaming-southern-glow-of-atmospheric-effects
Carina Nebula (Hubble Space Telecope 20th Anniversary compiled shot): http://angwe.tumblr.com/post/10387777731/the-raw-forces-of-nature-birth-stars-and-blow
Space Shuttle Endeavor (shot from ISS crew): http://angwe.tumblr.com/post/10388254529/lonely-explorer-of-the-sky-makes-a-rendezvous
Orion from Head to Toe (multiple-spectrum composite shot, Phil’s choice for Best Astronomy Picture of 2010): http://angwe.tumblr.com/post/10389020286/the-hunter-houses-the-beginnings-of-life-and
Link to the first astro-poetry collection: http://angwe.tumblr.com/astropoetry
