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View from South Camano Island just before sunset

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NASA Astronomy Picture of the Day:

This is the mess that is left when a star explodes. The Crab Nebula, the result of a supernova seen in 1054 AD, is filled with mysterious filaments. The filaments are not only tremendously complex but appear to have less mass than expelled in the original supernova and a higher speed than expected from a free explosion. The featured image was taken by an amateur astronomer in Leesburg, Florida, USA over three nights last month. It was captured in three primary colors but with extra detail provided by specific emission by hydrogen gas. The Crab Nebula spans about 10 light years. In the Nebula's very center lies a pulsar: a neutron star as massive as the Sun but with only the size of a small town. The Crab Pulsar rotates about 30 times each second. Explore the Universe: Random APOD Generator

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Pirogue running on the Mekong in front of an island hosting a Samanea saman (rain tree) and other trees, at sunset with pink clouds, seen from Don Det, Si Phan Don, Laos.

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NASA Astronomy Picture of the Day:

Jewels don't shine this bright -- only stars do. And almost every spot in this jewel-box of an image from the Hubble Space Telescope is a star. Now, some stars are more red than our Sun, and some more blue -- but all of them are much farther away. Although it takes light about 8 minutes to reach Earth from the Sun, NGC 1898 is so far away that it takes light about 160,000 years to get here. This huge ball of stars, NGC 1898, is called a globular cluster and resides in the central bar of the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC) -- a satellite galaxy of our Milky Way Galaxy. The featured multi-colored image includes light from the infrared to the ultraviolet and was taken to help determine if the stars of NGC 1898 all formed at the same time or at different times. There are increasing indications that most globular clusters formed stars in stages, and that, in particular, stars from NGC 1898 formed shortly after ancient encounters with the Small Magellanic Cloud (SMC) and our Milky Way Galaxy. Space Telescopes Live: Where are Hubble and Webb looking right now?

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The Last of England by Ford Madox Brown.

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"Because memory is what resists time and its powers of destruction, and it is something like the form that eternity can assume in that incessant transit. And although we (our conscience, our feelings, our harsh experience) are changing as the years go by, and also our skin and our wrinkles are becoming proof and testimony of this transition, there is something in us, deep inside, there in very dark regions, clinging tooth and nail to our childhood and to the past, to the people and to the land, to tradition and to the dreams, which seem to resist that tragic process: memory, the mysterious memory of ourselves, of what we are and what we were"

Translated from the Original Spanish version: La Resistencia  /  Ernesto Sábato  /  Seix Barral,  2000

"Porque la memoria es lo que resiste al tiempo y a sus poderes de destrucción, y es algo así como la forma que la eternidad puede asumir en ese incesante tránsito. Y aunque nosotros (nuestra conciencia, nuestros sentimientos, nuestra dura experiencia) vamos cambiando con los años, y también nuestra piel y nuestras arrugas van convirtiéndose en prueba y testimonio de ese tránsito, hay algo en nosotros, allá muy dentro, allá en regiones muy oscuras, aferrado con uñas y dientes a la infancia y al pasado, a la raza y a la tierra, a la tradición y a los sueños, que parece resistir a ese trágico proceso: la memoria, la misteriosa memoria de nosotros mismos, de lo que somos y de lo que fuimos”