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NASA Astronomy Picture of the Day:

This deep field mosaicked image presents a stunning view of galaxy cluster Abell 2744 recorded by the James Webb Space Telescope's NIRCam. Also dubbed Pandora's Cluster, Abell 2744 itself appears to be a ponderous merger of three different massive galaxy clusters. It lies some 3.5 billion light-years away, toward the constellation Sculptor. Dominated by dark matter, the mega-cluster warps and distorts the fabric of spacetime, gravitationally lensing even more distant objects. Redder than the Pandora cluster galaxies many of the lensed sources are very distant galaxies in the early Universe, their lensed images stretched and distorted into arcs. Of course distinctive diffraction spikes mark foreground Milky Way stars. At the Pandora Cluster's estimated distance this cosmic box spans about 6 million light-years. But don't panic. You can explore the tantalizing region in a 2 minute video tour.

Crazed words spill,
from out the brain,
as thoughts of you,
still remain.

I still struggle,
when thinking of you.
These sad thoughts,
will never do.

I will remember
and recall,
all our images from,
the memory wall.

Please, my love,
will you bear with me.
I'm trying to change,
and let life be.

I miss you more,
every waking day.
Wishing you were here,
and hadn't gone away.

Red was her breast,
as she stood under the tree.
I stayed quiet, as she
looked toward me.

I moved slightly,
now she could see.
She flew quickly
up into the tree.

Just a thought
about Twilight.

NASA Astronomy Picture of the Day:

Blown by fast winds from a hot, massive star, this cosmic bubble is huge. Cataloged as Sharpless 2-308 it lies some 5,000 light-years away toward the well-trained constellation Canis Major and covers slightly more of the sky than a Full Moon. That corresponds to a diameter of 60 light-years at its estimated distance. The massive star that created the bubble, a Wolf-Rayet star, is the bright one near the center of the nebula. Wolf-Rayet stars have over 20 times the mass of the Sun and are thought to be in a brief, pre-supernova phase of massive star evolution. Fast winds from this Wolf-Rayet star create the bubble-shaped nebula as they sweep up slower moving material from an earlier phase of evolution. The windblown nebula has an age of about 70,000 years. Relatively faint emission captured by narrowband filters in the deep image is dominated by the glow of ionized oxygen atoms mapped to a blue hue. Presenting a mostly harmless outline, SH2-308 is also known as The Dolphin-head Nebula.

Photo by Prabhu Kutti

Our 67th anniversary
is today, June 7, 1957.
It would have been a
joyful event, but my
beautiful bride passed
away, December 24, 2023.

It's with this in mind is why
I only publish the one event,
which reminds me of the love
we had even when I messed up.
Thank you.

Crafting words is a
skill that at times is
missing. Sometimes,
a person gets lucky.

Love, once so strong,
has left, gone away
as the loss of a loved one,
once here, won't stay.

My heart aches,
trying to break.
How much more grief,
must this old man take?

Someone to lean on,
for all those years,
now just confusion,
of loss and tears.

Sad is life,
when fate steps in,
creating a deep sorrow,
as my eyes grow dim.