How Nicola Bridges turned heartbreak into Capability

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10, 2015 | PA RA D E .CO M
How Nicola Bridges turned
heartbreak into Capability Ranch,
a haven for special-needs youth
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u Kimberly Williams-Paisley
u Jessica Seinfeld
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WALTER SCOTT ASKS...
GINA RODRIGUEZ OH, MOTHER!
When The CW premiered its Monday night comedy
Jane the Virgin last fall, they introduced a fresh new
face: Gina Rodriguez, 30, who won a 2015 Golden
Globe for her role as a young, single woman who gets
pregnant when her doctor artificially inseminates her
by mistake.
When you were a struggling actress, why did you
turn down roles that you felt were stereotypes for
Latina actresses? “It was important to reflect the
life on screen that I had inside my home. I just
had to be patient. Luckily, I waited.”
What was your Chicago childhood like?
“We grew up in the ‘hood. I wore my sister’s
clothes until I was, like, 15 years old. That
isn’t woe-is-me, that was just reality. But
my eldest sister started her own private
equity firm, and my other sister took
out loans to go to medical school. And
our parents worked nonstop to make
sure we had the best education.”
Do you think Jane opens the door
for conversations about sex
between parents and kids?
“It definitely opens up a door
not only on sex, but sexual
orientation, immigration
and the way we treat one
another.”
What do you do in
your downtime? “I
love to travel. Every
second I get, I want to
go somewhere new,
learn a new language
and a new culture. I
want to be exposed
to as many things
I don’t know as
possible.”
For Mother’s Day, we celebrate pearls of wisdom
from some of our favorite TV moms.
Violet Crowley Maggie
Smith on Downton Abbey
“Don’t be defeatist: It’s
very middle class.”
Bonnie
Plunkett
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Lauren Graham on
Parenthood ”Just do
something. You don’t
need an invitation to
your own life.”
Gabrielle Solis Eva
Longoria on Desperate
Housewives “The reason
I’m on this diet is
carrying you two brats
for 18 months made
mommy fat.”
Allison Janney
on Mom “Don’t
lie to the
woman who
washes your
sheets.”
Clair
Huxtable
Phylicia Rashad
on The Cosby Show
“Theo, we never
said, ‘Become a
doctor, become a
lawyer.’ We say,
‘Go to school,
study, become
something.’”
I am really enjoying
American Odyssey,
especially
Peter Facinelli.
What can you tell
me about him?
—Haley W.,
Oklahoma City, Okla.
A: Facinelli, 41, is best
known as Carlisle
Cullen from the Twilight
franchise. Prior to
playing Peter Decker
on American Odyssey
(Sundays on NBC), the
New York City native
appeared in Nurse
Jackie, Glee, Damages
and Six Feet Under. “The
fun of acting is stepping
into other people’s
shoes,” says the father
of three daughters.
Marge Simpson Julie
Kavner on The Simpsons
“This family has had its
differences and we’ve
squabbled, but we’ve
never had knife fights
before.”
Sophia Petrillo
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you can’t count on
family, who the hell
can you count on?”
Carol Brady Florence
Henderson on The Brady
Bunch “You shouldn’t
put down a loser, Cindy,
because you might be
one yourself someday.”
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Q: I’ve seen Blythe Danner
recently on TV commercials, but
does she have anything else in
the works?
—Janet D., Ocean City, N.J.
A: Indeed—Danner, 72, is the
star of a new movie opening this
week. I’ll See You in My Dreams
is a comedy-drama about a
widow who, after the death of
her beloved dog, reconnects with
life and finds love again. Danner,
whose own husband, actor Bruce
Paltrow, died in 2002, says she
could relate in several ways to
her character. “She’s close to my
situation,” says the actress, mom
to Gwyneth Paltrow. “I [also] liked
the fact that she’s no-nonsense
and has a snarky side.”
Or get some
other plan.
Q: What are the former stars of
Law and Order—Chris Meloni
and Vincent D’Onofrio—doing?
—Joan M., Downingtown, Pa.
A: Meloni, 54, who played NYPD
detective Elliot Stabler in Law &
Order: Special Victims Unit for 12
years, stars in the new series Wet
Hot American Summer: First Day
of Camp, to be released July 17
on Netflix. After that, he begins
filming for WGN America’s slave
drama Underground, scheduled
for 2016. Law and Order: Criminal
Intent alum, D’Onofrio, 55,
currently appears in Netflix’s
Marvel series Daredevil as the
devious underboss Kingpin, and
also stars in Jurassic World, in
theaters June 12.
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OTT’S
HOW I GOT HERE
JANE FONDA
Just because I’m 77 doesn’t
mean I’ve stopped learning.
I’m a perpetual student, always
striving to be better. I just hired
an acting coach for the first time
in 50 years because I wanted
to fine-tune my instrument, as
we actors say. I wanted to be
my best on my new Netflix project, Grace and Frankie. I love
working on a show about older
women coping with modern-day
problems, like trying to find a
job (or an identity) when your
husband leaves you for a man,
or managing an overly entitled
adult child—women who came
of age in the ’60s and sometimes smoke a little pot when
they need to just chill.
These have been some of the
most interesting years of my
life. After leaving the business
for 15 years, I never dreamed
I’d be in my 70s when I landed
a job playing one of the best
roles I’ve ever had—a gutsy
media mogul not unlike my exhusband, [CNN’s Ted Turner] on
The Newsroom, or that my fitness videos would be reaching
new audiences, or my Being a
Teen advice book would become
a bestseller.
It’s not luck that got me here. I
got here through perseverance.
My family actually once had a
coat of arms that said “Perseverate”—persevere. I do not
give up. I never felt I was good
enough, smart enough or nice
enough so I’ve worked hard at
those things in myself. I still do.
I’m proud that at my age, and
with my success, I still want to
get better. So I push myself to
be better at everything, including as a human being. I was
raised to feel that if I didn’t
look a certain way, I’d never be
loved. It wasn’t until I was in my
50s that I finally learned to give
myself a break and pay more attention to what’s inside.
I’m a quintessential late
bloomer. For someone who
grew up trying to please
men at any cost, becoming
a feminist was a slow process. I was in my 60s before I learned that I didn’t
need a man to validate me.
But men have taught me
important things. First
there was my dad. It’s not that
he ever sat me on his lap and
told me life lessons. But I had
my father’s movies: The Grapes
of Wrath, 12 Angry Men, Young
Mr. Lincoln. He played characters I knew he loved: men
who stood up for the underdog,
fought for freedom and equality
and justice. My father taught me
values through those films.
I learned different things
from each of my three husbands. From my first [director
Roger Vadim], I learned about
being a woman. My second husband [Tom Hayden] taught me
how to make a difference as an
activist, and that remains very
important for me.
I met my third husband,
Ted, at a time when I was very
Fonda enters the latest stage of her acting
career alongside Lily Tomlin in a new Netflix
series, Grace and Frankie (left).
“I push myself
to be better at
everything,
including as a
human being.”
unhappy. He taught me how to
laugh. He gave me confidence.
People think I gave up acting for
him, but that’s not true. I was
just too unhappy to be creative
then. We’re still good friends—
he came to my 75th birthday
party and we speak regularly.
With Richard [Perry], my current partner, we are dealing
with the issues of aging and how
to take care of each other. Richard is very different than the
men I was married to. He isn’t
threatened by my strength, my
work or my traveling. He’s kind.
I’m keenly aware that there’s
not that much time left. Just
today, my dog, Tulea, turned 10
and I thought, what if I outlive
her? Would I get another dog?
Or is it too close to the end?
Could I housebreak a dog at 85?
Could I bend over enough?
The time I have is precious
and I don’t want to waste it. I
don’t have a bucket list. A lot of
things I wanted to do I can’t do
anymore, like trek through
Tibet. But a lot of things I’ve
done I can do better. It’s never
too late. That’s really the message of my life.
—As told to Gayle Jo Carter
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The unstoppable, 70-something actress-activist-exercise
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Jane Fonda | Road Map
1957-1958 Acting teacher Lee
Strasberg stuns Fonda by telling her she has “real talent,”
she recalls. “I never wanted
to be an actor—I didn’t think
I was pretty enough. But I
didn’t know what else to do.”
1968 Dons a sexy
spacesuit in
the cheesy
sci-fi flick Barbarella, panned
by one critic as
a “cheap, seethrough, psychedelic B-movie.”
1969 Changes
things up to
play a struggling Depressionera survivor in They Shoot
Horses, Don’t They? Her performance wins her an Academy
Award for Best Actress.
1981 Accepts the Oscar on behalf of her co-star and father,
legendary actor Henry Fonda,
for On Golden Pond—“one of
the proudest moments of my
life,” she says. He died five
months later.
1982 Ignites the home video
fitness craze with Workout
Starring Jane Fonda.
It sold 17 million
copies, making it
the best-selling
home video in
history.
2000 Has a
“major hair
epiphany”
when she
emerges from
Hollywood
retirement at
the Academy Awards
donning a new shaggy ’do.
2015 Reunites with Lily Tomlin (with whom she starred
in 1980’s Nine to Five) for the
new Netflix comedy series,
Grace and Frankie, available
for download now.
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of other moms w
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s golden Southern California
to as the “awesome tribe of families
sunshine pours through the winwith special-needs children.”
dows of a barn in the small town
But the aha! moment that inspired her
of Ramona, a group of kids with
came with a huge price tag.
special needs is killing it on the dance floor.
A Dream Deferred
Giggles ripple through the room as they
Bridges’ first inkling that she was meant
do the two-step, copying the footwork
for something like this was almost 20
their dance teacher demonstrates.
years ago, when she was living in BrookStanding in the wings, Nicola Bridges,
lyn, N.Y., with her first husband and two
49, is half smiling, half fighting happy
young sons. Jugtears while videogling her family
taping the fun on
and a demanding,
her smartphone. In
high-powered job
January, she and her
at a large publishing
husband, Tony Oxley,
company — plus
opened Capability
the guilt so many
Ranch, an activity
working mothers
and events center
carry — was beginfor youth and young
ning to eat away at
adults with special
her spirit. Owen’s
needs, and line
autism diagnosis at
dancing is quickly
the age of 2 complibecoming one of
cated things further
the favorite activities
by exposing Bridges
on the roster. Like
to a new world —
her 19-year-old son,
and a new source
Owen, who’s groovNicola Bridges with sons Owen (far left) and Jack
of stress. “If you
ing to the beat, most
have two ‘normal’
of the kids who come
kids, you’d never have reason to know that
to the ranch have neurological developin the basement of a church in Brooklyn
mental delays, including autism spectrum
Heights there’s a program for specialdisorder, Down syndrome and brain
needs children,” Bridges says. “But there
traumas, but anyone’s welcome to join the
I was, trying to figure out what an autism
fun. After years as a publishing executive with a yearning to “do something
diagnosis meant.”
more meaningful,” Bridges gave up
The seed for Capability Ranch sprouted
her publishing career to open Capabilin the frenzied cracks between balancing
ity Ranch for those she lovingly refers
Owen’s needs with those of her older son,
Jack, her career and her husband. “One day,
I realized that if I could start over, I’d be a
teacher or a special-education facilitator,”
she says. “It was just a feeling, but it stayed
with me for years.”
In the meantime, she continued in the
so-called rat race. As Owen’ s autism progressed, bills piled up. Years passed. Her
kids grew, and so did her career. Eventually
she divorced, remarried and relocated to
San Diego. Jack went off to college at the
er and opening photography by Joe Schmelzer
University of Maryland. Bridges continued
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e
on to a traumatic brain injury,
opened a ranch for youth with
Here's her inspiring story plus tales
who are making a difference.
hustling, both at home and at work. If she
wasn’t with Owen, she was glued to her
phone or computer, or she was on a plane
en route to a meeting.
Kimberly Williams-Paisley:
Fighting Dementia to Help
her Mom
She’s had roles on shows such as
Nashville and According to Jim, but
it’s her work on behalf of her mother,
Linda, who suffers from a rare form
of dementia, that Kimberly WilliamsPaisley, 43, considers among her
greatest achievements.
As a spokesperson for the Alzheimer’s Association, she is raising awareness of the
disease whose
“collateral
damage has affected everyone
in my family. My
two boys were
born a few years
after Mom was
diagnosed,"
says the wife
of country star
Kimberly Williams-Paisley
Brad Paisley. "It
(left) with mom Lynn
hit me one day
and sister Ashley
that they would
mostly remember her as a woman in
a wheelchair who couldn’t speak.”
Her mother was diagnosed at 61,
which isn’t surprising given that
women in their sixties have a one-insix chance of developing Alzheimer’s.
“It’s a much greater threat to them
than breast cancer,” says WilliamsPaisley. “Even if you’re not currently
affected by dementia, you probably
will be—as a patient, a family member or friend.”
She is particularly interested in
helping the 15 million caregivers like
her. “Many are overwhelmed and
physically sick from the grueling work
of tending those with dementia,” she
says. “I want to rally support for more
research to find a cure.”
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Then came the middle-of-thenight phone call every parent
dreads. Jack, a sophomore in college, had been assaulted outside
a bar near campus and rushed to
the hospital with a traumatic brain
injury. “A lot of people were there
that night, but the pin dropped
on him,” says Bridges. She rushed
to Maryland, sobbing into her
“new normal” until Jack was well
enough to be on his own again.
When she wasn’t flying back
and forth across the country
visiting Jack, Bridges was busy
working and caring for Owen,
who stayed in her husband’s care
whenever she left town. “Caring
for Owen isn’t easy,” says Bridges.
“Parents of autistic kids often say
that going to work is the easy part.”
thing to say, but it’s how I felt,”
she confesses. Sleep eluded her.
She sought counseling and was
diagnosed with post-traumatic
stress disorder.
"It Looked Like Narnia"
Bridges and Oxley found solace
riding their Harley through the
Ramona grasslands on the outskirts of San Diego. “We were
Oxley’s second question probed
even more: “If you could do anything, what would it be?” Bridges’
answer: “I would do something
for our tribe.”
She decided it was time to
heed the feeling she’d had all
those years ago. “I made a plan
to peel out of corporate America
that spring,” she says. The couple
bought the Wildlife Research
Food Historian Alice Randall:
Helping Black Women Eat Better
Jessica Seinfeld: Helping Parents
Break the Cycle of Poverty
“My goal is to be the last fat black woman in my
family," declared author and food activist Alice
Randall (middle) in a 2012 New York Times op-ed
piece. Her daughter, Caroline Randall Williams
(left), age 27, was delighted. “She had long worried about my health and was thrilled at my
desire to change the way I eat,” says Randall, 56.
Williams showed her how it could be done without forgetting or blaming their family’s traditions,
and the result is their new book, Soul Food Love:
Healthy Recipes Inspired by One Hundred Years of Cooking in a Black Family (Clarkson
Potter).
The joint mother-daughter project explores the complicated relationship black
women have with food. “We worked together to solve a problem,” says Randall.
“Caroline is the present, I am the past , and, together, we have made a new future.”
As the daughter of a social worker, Jessica Seinfeld
(left), 43, the wife of comedian Jerry Seinfeld,
knows childhood poverty is no laughing matter.
In 2001, she founded the nonprofit organization
Baby Buggy to provide childcare gear, parenting
support and educational services to families
in need with the goal of breaking the cycle of
poverty that so often follows from one generation to the next. Baby Buggy's new Fatherhood Initiative was launched when she spotted
the special needs of dads. "The men we serve
are trying to lift themselves up and lift their
families up," says Seinfeld, the mother of three.
"They have a lot that they struggle with."
Eat healthier with Williams' recipe for Nicoise salad on page 14.
blanket for the entire flight, not
knowing if Jack would make it
through his first surgery. Upon
arrival, she was told he had only a
10 percent chance of survival. Miraculously, he did make it through
the surgery, and over the next few
weeks, she spent every hour at his
bedside. “I wanted to be there if
he blinked or moved his finger,”
she says, her voice quivering.
Jack stunned doctors when
within weeks he made enough
progress to be transferred to a
rehabilitation hospital. Bridges
was elated. She and Jack’s father,
who lived in New York, traded off,
spending one week with their son
and one week at home, creating a
Back in Maryland, Jack started
walking and talking—his doctors
called it an extraordinary recovery.
But seizures regularly sent him
back to the hospital. He endured
several surgeries that left his skull
slightly disfigured.
Eventually, Bridges began to
unravel. It wasn’t a slow and steady
dismantling. It was more of an
electric shock. “It’s as if I’d been
holding my breath emotionally
and suddenly all my fears came
pouring out,’” she says. While she
was keeping up appearances, she
was completely stressed out. She
couldn’t help thinking, We already
have brain issues in our family, why
not somebody else? “It’s a terrible
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closet cowboys,” she says. It was
during one of those rides that the
couple first laid eyes on the Wildlife Research Institute. The unkempt, 10-acre property consisted
of little more than a no-frills 1952
ranch-style house, a couple of barren barns and a six-car garage that
had been converted into a lecture
hall. “But it looked like Narnia
from the road,” recalls Bridges.
Later, sitting in their suburban
backyard, ruminating over Jack’s
injuries and all of the challenges
before them, the idea for Capability Ranch finally took off. “Tony
asked, ‘If the pin dropped on you
today, would you be happy?’ The
answer was categorically ‘no.’”
Institute property, sinking their
savings into refurbishing it into a
retreat that would accommodate
disabled youth, especially those
suffering from brain disorders and
traumas. Soon they learned there
was a brain injury recovery center
down the road. “What are the
odds?” says Bridges. “If that wasn’t
a sign, I don’t know what was.”
Today, Bridges plans to coordinate outings and activities with
its residents, adding them to the
growing list of friends, neighbors
and volunteers who are helping
the ranch succeed. “Neighbors
drive by honking and say, ‘You
guys are doing amazing things
with this property!’ We get calls
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The Wake-Up Call
Kimberly Williams-Paisley
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every day from people wanting
to donate animals, supplies or
their time. It’s incredible.”
Last summer, Jack was well
enough to complete an internship in San Francisco. Before
heading back East, he visited
the ranch for the first time and
fell in love with it. “He said,
‘Mom, this is amazing. You’re
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Coalition. “School districts
think of buses when they think
of transportation, but lots of
kids walk and ride their bikes
to school,” says Samuel. “It’s
important we make sure roads
are clear and sidewalks are
shoveled.”
Today the Walk Safe initiative
has created walkability checklists and safe route listings as
well as lobbied against budget
cuts that threatened crossing
guards' jobs. But that’s not
all this die-hard defender of
equal access to education has
accomplished. As the founder
and president of the Connecticut Parents Union, Samuel
successfully introduced Connecticut’s “parent trigger” law,
which allows parents to make
recommendations regarding
administration changes in lowperforming schools.
Check out ctparentsunion.org
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happens inside, it’s now known as
the Jack Shack Activity Barn, in
honor of the young man whose
life inspired it. “We’re trying to
create programs specifically for
"Loveyabunches"
those affected by brain disorders,”
Doctors were pleased enough
says Bridges. That includes quarwith Jack’s progress for him to
terly events for caregivers too.
return to school last fall. Bridges
“Research shows the stress level of
stayed busy doing consulting work
these caregivers is akin to soldiers
while preparing the ranch to open
returning from combat.”
and flying out to see Jack whenRight now, there are enough
ever she could.
funds to host activities two days a
Last November,
week, but Bridges
Jack was set to
hopes to turn that
“If you could into five soon.
give a speech at his
fraternity’s annual
do anything, “Eventually we
Red Carnation
want to do therawhat would peutic activities
Ball, which was
raising funds for
it be?” Bridges’ with animals, and
the hospital that
perhaps introduce
answer: “I would the kids to sustainhad saved his life.
Bridges and Oxley
farming,” she
do something able
were also invited,
says, referring to
and just before
for our tribe.” the horses, rabtheir flight took
bits and hens that
off, she texted
also call the ranch
Jack to see if he was up for a latehome. “Overnight camping trips
night bite. There was no reply.
in the dry creek bed would be
She sent another text that said,
great too.”
“loveyabunches,” a sweet, simple
For now she takes things one
reminder she and Jack had fallen
day at a time, a lesson she learned
into the habit of writing, almost
from watching Jack fight back
as if it was a hashtag. By the time
from his injury. Days now begin
the plane landed and she fired
with a full hour of reflection
up her phone again, there were
on an old porch swing outside
several missed calls. When she
the ranch house, where she sits
finally reached his best friend, she
with her Lab, Custard, and a
learned Jack had laid down for a
cup of coffee. “You know those
nap earlier that day and died in
inspirational quotes about living
his sleep. His friends found him
in the moment that go around
in his bed hours later.
social media?” says Bridges. “I’m
Losing Jack just a couple of
really doing that now for the first
months before opening Capabiltime in my life and it’s because
ity Ranch made the realization of
of Jack.”
Bridges’ dream bittersweet. Today
the barn used for line dancing may
Visit capabilityranch.org for more
be a dance hall, but tomorrow it
information about the nonprofit that
may morph into an art studio, or
relies almost entirely on donations.
Table
Around the
A
MOTHER- DAUGHTER AFFAIR
I
in the right place,’” Bridges recalls.
“I told him it was because of him
that I’d found the courage to open
the ranch. This was the gift in the
tragedy.”
oul Food Love: Healthy Recipes Inspired by One Hundred Years of Cooking
in a Black Family (Clarkson Potter) is a labor of love by Alice Randall, author of The Wind Done Gone (Mariner Books), and daughter
Caroline Randall Williams, a poet and teacher. It shows how a little creativity and smart ingredient swaps can take a century’s worth of family
recipes and make them healthier. Case in point: Williams’ remake of
her grandma Joan Marie Bontemps Williams’ Nicoise salad recipe.
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JOAN’S NICOISE SALAD
3 Tbsp red wine vinegar
2 Tbsp Dijon mustard
1-2 Tbsp olive oil
Salt and pepper
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1 head romaine lettuce,
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2 hard-boiled eggs
2 large tomatoes, wedged
1 large new potato, boiled
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2 (2-oz) cans anchovies
2 (5-oz) cans tuna, drained
4 pickled okra
1. Whisk vinegar, mustard and olive oil together; season with salt and pepper.
2. Cook asparagus in salted water until crisp, about 3-5 minutes. Cool under
cold running water. Drain well.
3. Divide lettuce among 4 plates. Slice eggs crosswise. Arrange egg slices
along 1 edge of each plate. Divide tomatoes and potato evenly. Place 4
asparagus stalks across top of each salad, then add about 5 anchovies,
one-quarter of tuna and 1 pickled okra. Drizzle with dressing. Serves 4.
Adapted from Soul Food Love: Healthy Recipes Inspired by One Hundred
Years of Cooking in a Black Family. Copyright © 2015 by Alice Randall and
Caroline Randall Williams. Photographs copyright © 2015 by Penny De Los Santos.
Published by Clarkson Potter, an imprint of Penguin Random House, LLC. Visit
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14 | MAY 10, 2015
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By Marilyn vos Savant
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Telescope “pictures” are
so beautiful. But if we
could take a spaceship to
these same places, what
would they look like?
—C.A., Newport, Mich.
We would be disappointed.
The images were
produced by combining
sets of raw black-andwhite data (not photos)
that included much
physical reality the
human eye cannot see
at all. For example,
we can’t see X-rays or
gamma rays passing
through space, but in the
images, they are depicted
by glorious colors. Nor
can we see various
gases here on Earth, yet
invisible gases in space
are represented vividly. In
sum, the Hubble images
are a combination of great
science and great art.
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