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NASA Astronomy Picture of the Day:

Across the heart of the Virgo Galaxy Cluster lies a string of galaxies known as Markarian's Chain. Prominent in Markarian's Chain are these two interacting galaxies, NGC 4438 (left) and NGC 4435 - also known as The Eyes. About 50 million light-years away, the two galaxies appear to be about 100,000 light-years apart in this sharp close-up, but have likely approached to within an estimated 16,000 light-years of each other in their cosmic past. Gravitational tides from the close encounter have ripped away at their stars, gas, and dust. The more massive NGC 4438 managed to hold on to much of the material torn out in the collision, while material from the smaller NGC 4435 was more easily lost. The remarkably deep image of this crowded region of the universe also includes many more distant background galaxies.

Photo by Mike Selby

May you soon find,
your happiness,
away from,
all your loneliness.

May all the joy,
you feel in your heart,
provide the courage for,
your new life to start.

It's time, for me,
to stumble and fall,
with a love
of anyone at all.

It will be pleasant,
of that, I am sure.
How long will it last?
How long will it endure?

No one knows,
at least not me,
for it depends upon,
the mysterious she,

who is willing to take
a risk with this old man,
to enjoy a life,
as long as we can.

Life's travesty,
not a place to go,
for the wishes we have,
may never show.

Desire to be happy,
at this time in life.
How can it be?
You lost your wife.

No longer the memories.
No longer the cries.
No longer the goodbyes.
No longer the sighs.

How does one cope,
when memories die.
What must you do,
to hurt with the cries..

Lost love, no matter
how long it has been,
grieve you must, to make,
your memories whole again.

NASA Astronomy Picture of the Day:

What's that at the end of the road? The Sun. Many towns have roads that run east-west, and on two days each year, the Sun rises and sets right down the middle. Today, in some parts of the world (tomorrow in others), is one of those days: an equinox. Not only is this a day of equal night ("aequus"-"nox") and day time, but also a day when the sun rises precisely to the east and sets due west. Displayed here is a picturesque rural road in Alberta, Canada that runs approximately east-west. The featured image was taken during the September Equinox of 2021, but the geometry remains the same every year. In many cultures, this March equinox is taken to be the first day of a season, typically spring in Earth's northern hemisphere, and autumn in the south. Does your favorite street run east-west? Tonight, at sunset, you can find out with a quick glance.

Photo by Alan Dyer, Amazingsky.com, TWAN

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Island County, WA

What stream, wanders down,
a hillside, green?
What is wrong,
with a fernlike dream?

I don't know, here in my darkness
I may now cry,
for a love,
gone bye.