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NASA Astronomy Picture of the Day:

This magnificent spiral galaxy is Messier 64, often called the Black Eye Galaxy or the Sleeping Beauty Galaxy for its dark-lidded appearance in telescopic views. The spiral's central region, about 7,400 light-years across, is pictured in this reprocessed image from the Hubble Space Telescope. M64 lies some 17 million light-years distant in the otherwise well-groomed northern constellation Coma Berenices. The enormous dust clouds partially obscuring M64's central region are laced with young, blue star clusters and the reddish glow of hydrogen associated with star forming regions. But imposing clouds of dust are not this galaxy's only peculiar feature. Observations show that M64 is actually composed of two concentric, counter-rotating systems. While all the stars in M64 rotate in the same direction as the interstellar gas in the galaxy's central region, gas in the outer regions, extending to about 40,000 light-years, rotates in the opposite direction. The dusty eye and bizarre rotation are likely the result of a billion year old merger of two different galaxies.

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My Soul feels lost,
alone, out of control,
or am I just unlucky,
on an incredible roll?

I know what I read.
I know what I say,
but sometimes my emotions,
get in the way.

I miss you my love,
I surely do.
I miss you my love,
I love you.

Forever the days,
you'll remain in my heart.
Forever the days,
when we are apart.

Love me tomorrow
as you did today.
Love me tomorrow,
when I've gone away.

Splayed on the ground,
flat on my face.
I am embarassed,
fallen from grace.

No one's to blame,
is what they say.
I'll let you know
on a better day.

The Sun lay low in the Eastern sky,
as dawn crept slowly through
the dark, cold night for many
as the rising Sun warmed the air,
trees, grass, and flower blossoms
as daylight made its presence known.

NASA Astronomy Picture of the Day:

Birds don't fly this high. Airplanes don't go this fast. The Statue of Liberty weighs less. No species other than human can even comprehend what is going on, nor could any human just a millennium ago. The launch of a rocket bound for space is an event that inspires awe and challenges description. Pictured here last week, the Indian Space Research Organization's LVM3 rocket blasted off from the Satish Dhawan Space Centre on Sriharikota Island, India. From a standing start, the 600,000+ kilogram rocket ship lifted the massive Chandrayaan-3 off the Earth. The Chandrayaan-3 mission is scheduled to reach the Moon in late August and land a robotic rover near the lunar South Pole. Rockets bound for space are now launched from somewhere on Earth every few days.

Photo by Sruthi Suresh (Space Group)

Tell me a story about
your personal life,
where you were born,
how you met your wife.

I would really, like to know,
what was important to you.
How you handled setbacks,
how you learned and grew.

Were there times when
you wanted to quit,
because of some people,
with a personality twit?

Tell me of your success,
from your young life,
about raising your children,
and caring for your wife.

Let me know what troubled you,
even for a short time.
I would like to know,
were you always kind?

I've loved you forever
and the hardest for me to do,
is leave you now
for I'm still in love with you.

When I'm alone,
I think of you.
I haven't an answer,
I haven't a clue.

Words, again fly
from my brain.
Is it too late,
did I miss the train?

Write about topics, current
and the words used today,
sometimes aren't apparent,
meanings can run away.