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What cost is love,
when you cry,
from the hurt,
you only sigh.

What great loss,
what will it be,
when I look
and cannot, see?

If you left
and stayed away,
my heart would ache,
night and day.

NASA Astronomy Picture of the Day:

Why is the Cigar Galaxy billowing red smoke? M82, as this starburst galaxy is also known, was stirred up by a recent pass near large spiral galaxy M81. This doesn't fully explain the source of the red-glowing outwardly expanding gas and dust, however. Evidence indicates that this gas and dust is being driven out by the combined emerging particle winds of many stars, together creating a galactic superwind. The dust particles are thought to originate in M82's interstellar medium and are actually similar in size to particles in cigar smoke. The featured photographic mosaic highlights a specific color of red light strongly emitted by ionized hydrogen gas, showing detailed filaments of this gas and dust. The filaments extend for over 10,000 light years. The 12-million light-year distant Cigar Galaxy is the brightest galaxy in the sky in infrared light and can be seen in visible light with a small telescope towards the constellation of the Great Bear (Ursa Major). APOD in world languages: Arabic, Bulgarian, Catalan, Chinese (Beijing), Chinese (Taiwan), Croatian, Czech, Dutch, French, German, Hebrew, Indonesian, Japanese, Montenegrin, Polish, Russian, Serbian, Slovenian, Spanish, Taiwanese, Turkish, and Ukrainian

When I am gone,
left and not with you
Give the Devil his due,
and drink a brew.

Love not another,
for if you do,
there are no guarantees,
you will end as two.

God may move,
in mysterious ways,
but in my life,
It's the end of days.

For naught of love a voice was lost.
For naught of prayer there was a cost.
What will thy do if all fails,
will you live your life in jails?

NASA Astronomy Picture of the Day:

The monsters that live on the Sun are not like us. They are larger than the Earth and made of gas hotter than in any teapot. They have no eyes, but at times, many tentacles. They float. Usually, they slowly change shape and just fade back onto the Sun over about a month. Sometimes, though, they suddenly explode and unleash energetic particles into the Solar System that can attack the Earth.  Pictured is a huge solar prominence imaged almost two weeks ago in the light of hydrogen. Captured by a small telescope in Gilbert, Arizona, USA, the monsteresque plume of gas was held aloft by the ever-present but ever-changing magnetic field near the surface of the Sun. Our active Sun continues to show an unusually high number of prominences, filaments, sunspots, and large active regions as solar maximum approaches in 2025.

Photo by Mike Wenz

The days were sad,
the nights forlorn.
My love is strong,
my heart is shorn.

So many days,
so many nights.
Days are busy,
lonely the nights.