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NASA Astronomy Picture of the Day:

This colorful skyscape spans about three full moons across nebula rich starfields along the plane of our Milky Way Galaxy toward the royal northern constellation Cepheus. Near the edge of the region's massive molecular cloud some 2,400 light-years away, bright reddish emission region Sharpless (Sh)2-155 is at the center of the frame, also known as the Cave Nebula. About 10 light-years across the cosmic cave's bright walls of gas are ionized by ultraviolet light from the hot young stars around it. Dusty bluish reflection nebulae, like vdB 155 at the left, and dense obscuring clouds of dust also abound on the interstellar canvas. Astronomical explorations have revealed other dramatic signs of star formation, including the bright reddish fleck of Herbig-Haro (HH) 168. At the upper left in the frame, the Herbig-Haro object emission is generated by energetic jets from a newborn star.

Photo by Gábor Galambos

A new day dawns,
a bright new day.
Forget the sadness,
Begin a new way.

Scan the horizon.
soak in the Sun.
A positive beginning,
You are the one.

Watch for tomorrow,
you're still the one.
Life will be better,
as you've just begun.

It is now time,
to begin anew.
Don't rely on others.
Do what you do.

Reach out to your friends,
surround yourself with joy.
Find the person for you,
matters not who you employ.

A flash of light,
a rumbling noise,
stay away from me,
with your false joys.

Begone with you,
one more time,
for I don't need,
another mime.

I feel a tightness,
encircling my head.
I didn't know I was
now brain dead.

What happens,
when thoughts collide?
What's the outcome?
You must decide.

Across the broad plain,
of a solitary mind,
memories become elusive,
extremely hard to find.

Searching, ever searching,
for elusive thoughts abound.
Look in every cranny,
until memories are found.

NASA Astronomy Picture of the Day:

Thor not only has his own day (Thursday), but a helmet in the heavens. Popularly called Thor's Helmet, NGC 2359 is a hat-shaped cosmic cloud with wing-like appendages. Heroically sized even for a Norse god, Thor's Helmet is about 30 light-years across. In fact, the cosmic head-covering is more like an interstellar bubble, blown with a fast wind from the bright, massive star near the bubble's center. Known as a Wolf-Rayet star, the central star is an extremely hot giant thought to be in a brief, pre-supernova stage of evolution. NGC 2359 is located about 15,000 light-years away toward the constellation of the Great Overdog. This remarkably sharp image is a mixed cocktail of data from narrowband filters, capturing not only natural looking stars but details of the nebula's filamentary structures. The star in the center of Thor's Helmet is expected to explode in a spectacular supernova sometime within the next few thousand years.

Photo by Ritesh Biswas

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You make me happy,
in your casual way.
I know not what to do,
when writing far away.

You make my day,
with your warm, good morn,
and I relish the time,
when I am reborn.

Reborn, once again,
with a future to see.
Not about a romance
for that's a fantasy.

I walked the trail,
through darkened wood,
lost in thoughts of
where life stood.

My love is gone,
with great regret.
I loved her since
the day we met.