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NASA Astronomy Picture of the Day:

The full Moon and Earth's shadow set together in this island skyscape. The alluring scene was captured Tuesday morning, August 20, from Fiji, South Pacific Ocean, planet Earth. For early morning risers shadowset in the western sky is a daily apparition. Still, the grey-blue shadow is often overlooked in favor of a brighter eastern horizon. Extending through the dense atmosphere, Earth's setting shadow is bounded above by a pinkish glow or anti-twilight arch. Known as the Belt of Venus, the arch's lovely color is due to backscattering of reddened light from the opposite horizon's rising Sun. Of course, the setting Moon's light is reddened by the long sight-line through the atmosphere. But on that date the full Moon could be called a seasonal Blue Moon, the third full Moon in a season with four full Moons. And even though the full Moon is always impressive near the horizon, August's full Moon is considered by some the first of four consecutive full Supermoons in 2024.

Photo by full Moon

My lovely wife
of almost 67 years,
passed away,
8 months ago, today.
I miss her so.

Fighting insanity,
every day,
as my life,
slips away.

I feel good,
is what to know,
for my life is my
own traveling show.

How it will end
everyone will know
for I may well be
the next one to go.

This season, seems to be
one of much sun, but little rain.
I suppose this will mean we
will have a very, wet fall season.

I sincerely hope I will see it,
as my skin is starting to crack,
due to lack of rainy days.
I know this doesn't rhyme, but
I don't care.

a pillar, towers over me.
I don't understand,
for I feel great, but,
been told my life will end.

I know that is
the scheme of things,
but I feel strong and ready
for what life brings.

Bite the bullet,
and old saying.
Perhaps I should
and get to praying.

Praying for peace,
in this world, ours,
full of riches
and fancy cars.

The killing of children,
has grown old.
Time to step up,
and to be bold.

Stop the insanity,
we are all the same,
skin color, religion,
we all have a name.

NASA Astronomy Picture of the Day:

There is a quiet pulsar at the heart of CTA 1. The supernova remnant was discovered as a source of emission at radio wavelengths by astronomers in 1960 and since identified as the result of the death explosion of a massive star. But no radio pulses were detected from the expected pulsar, the rotating neutron star remnant of the massive star's collapsed core. Seen about 10,000 years after the initial supernova explosion, the interstellar debris cloud is faint at optical wavelengths. CTA 1's visible wavelength emission from still expanding shock fronts is revealed in this deep telescopic image, a frame that spans about 2 degrees across a starfield in the northern constellation of Cepheus. While no pulsar has since been found at radio wavelengths, in 2008 the Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope detected pulsed emission from CTA 1, identifying the supernova remnant's rotating neutron star. The source has been recognized as the first in a growing class of pulsars that are quiet at radio wavelengths but pulse in high-energy gamma-rays.

Photo by Thomas Lelu

A simple poem,
it means so much,
for I may have
lost my writing touch.

Memories of the past,
when I was in 7th grade,
living in Ranier Beach,
soon to be moving.

Through the back door,
boldly, no where to go,
except to keep moving,
for this is my life's show.

Caregivers, a plenty, always asking,
"Are you having any pain?".
Answering, "No I'm not!".
is this a new something?