Moondance: Celebrating Creative Women -- Rising Stars

Resembling a nightmarish beast rearing its head from a crimson sea, this monstrous object is actually an innocuous pillar of gas and dust. Called the Cone Nebula (NGC 2264) - so named because, in ground-based images, it has a conical shape - this giant pillar resides in a turbulent star-forming region. ACS made this observation on April 2, 2002. Credit: NASA, H. Ford (JHU), G. Illingworth (USCS/LO), M.Clampin (STScI), G. Hartig (STScI), the ACS Science Team, and ESA

I took one of her shirts from the shelf in my closet that I stole before everything was taken away and held it to my face, her fragrance still lingering. I inhaled my youth....It lifted me for a moment until the realization that, moment by moment, time was stealing her smell away.

> > r e a d o n

cover | arts department | sections
shopping | discussion forum | about moondance