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NASA Astronomy Picture of the Day:

What powers the Crab Nebula? A city-sized magnetized neutron star spinning around 30 times a second. Known as the Crab Pulsar, it is the bright spot in the center of the gaseous swirl at the nebula's core. About 10 light-years across, the spectacular picture of the Crab Nebula (M1) frames a swirling central disk and complex filaments of surrounding and expanding glowing gas. The picture combines visible light from the Hubble Space Telescope in red and blue with X-ray light from the Chandra X-ray Observatory shown in white, and diffuse X-ray emission detected by Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer (IXPE) in diffuse purple. The central pulsar powers the Crab Nebula's emission and expansion by slightly slowing its spin rate, which drives out a wind of energetic electrons. The featured image released today, the 25th Anniversary of the launch of NASA's flagship-class X-ray Observatory: Chandra. Many Discoveries: Chandra Celebrates 25th Anniversary

Pain and suffering,
impossible to measure,
not quantifiable, but
still present in our daily lives.

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When all your yesterdays,
have moved into tomorrow.
When all the joys you had,
have turned into sorrow,

memories are fleeting passion,
while all the sadness,
in our hearts and lives,
is no longer still in fashion.

To was philosophically,
in this place we dwell,
is most usually something,
on the Perdition Road to Hell.

Step up to the plate,
sharing your concerns,
but always remember,
it's how the world turns.

Thinking about,
this life I have led,
I pause, and ask,
"What's wrong with your head?"

I've had a great time,
with kids and a wife,
so why are you worried,
you've had a great life?

Sometimes a question,
should be asked, especially,
during times of loneliness.
If only an hour, or a day,
helps to keep boredom away

NASA Astronomy Picture of the Day:

Sometimes the dark dust of interstellar space has an angular elegance. Such is the case toward the far-south constellation of Chamaeleon. Normally too faint to see, dark dust is best known for blocking visible light from stars and galaxies behind it. In this 36.6-hour exposure, however, the dust is seen mostly in light of its own, with its strong red and near-infrared colors creating a brown hue. Contrastingly blue, the bright star Beta Chamaeleontis is visible on the upper right, with the dust that surrounds it preferentially reflecting blue light from its primarily blue-white color. All of the pictured stars and dust occur in our own Milky Way Galaxy with one notable exception: the white spot just below Beta Chamaeleontis is the galaxy IC 3104 which lies far in the distance. Interstellar dust is mostly created in the cool atmospheres of giant stars and dispersed into space by stellar light, stellar winds, and stellar explosions such as supernovas.

Photo by Chang Lee

Years ago,
on a tropical Isle,
we would swim and snorkel.
all of the while.

A cruise, courtesy of
my Uncle Sam.
We worked and played hard,
like Popeye the Sailor, I yam.

I find myself,
wanting to be alone.
I'm OK talking about it,
but do not want sympathy.

Please leave me alone.
What you are talking about,
don't doesn't matter.
Not anymore.