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The Sun lay low in the Eastern sky,
as dawn crept slowly through
the dark, cold night for many
as the rising Sun warmed the air,
trees, grass, and flower blossoms
as daylight made its presence known.

NASA Astronomy Picture of the Day:

Birds don't fly this high. Airplanes don't go this fast. The Statue of Liberty weighs less. No species other than human can even comprehend what is going on, nor could any human just a millennium ago. The launch of a rocket bound for space is an event that inspires awe and challenges description. Pictured here last week, the Indian Space Research Organization's LVM3 rocket blasted off from the Satish Dhawan Space Centre on Sriharikota Island, India. From a standing start, the 600,000+ kilogram rocket ship lifted the massive Chandrayaan-3 off the Earth. The Chandrayaan-3 mission is scheduled to reach the Moon in late August and land a robotic rover near the lunar South Pole. Rockets bound for space are now launched from somewhere on Earth every few days.

Photo by Sruthi Suresh (Space Group)

Tell me a story about
your personal life,
where you were born,
how you met your wife.

I would really, like to know,
what was important to you.
How you handled setbacks,
how you learned and grew.

Were there times when
you wanted to quit,
because of some people,
with a personality twit?

Tell me of your success,
from your young life,
about raising your children,
and caring for your wife.

Let me know what troubled you,
even for a short time.
I would like to know,
were you always kind?

I've loved you forever
and the hardest for me to do,
is leave you now
for I'm still in love with you.

When I'm alone,
I think of you.
I haven't an answer,
I haven't a clue.

Words, again fly
from my brain.
Is it too late,
did I miss the train?

Write about topics, current
and the words used today,
sometimes aren't apparent,
meanings can run away.

Crazy are the words,
spilling from my head.
Always a worry, they may be
words I shouldn't spread.

NASA Astronomy Picture of the Day:

What's happening in the night sky? To help find out, telescopes all over the globe will be pointing into deep space. Investigations will include trying to understand the early universe, finding and tracking Earth-menacing asteroids, searching for planets that might contain extra-terrestrial life, and monitoring stars to help better understand our Sun. The featured composite includes foreground and background images taken in April from a mountaintop on La Palma island in the Canary Islands of Spain. Pictured, several telescopes from the Roque de los Muchachos Observatory are shown in front of a dark night sky. Telescopes in the foreground include, left to right, Magic 1, Galileo, Magic 2, Gran Canarian, and LST. Sky highlights in the background include the central band of our Milky Way Galaxy, the constellations of Sagittarius, Ophiuchus and Scorpius, the red-glowing Eagle and Lagoon Nebulas, and the stars Alrami and Antares. Due to observatories like this, humanity has understood more about our night sky in the past 100 years than ever before in all of human history.

Photo by Marcin Rosadziński

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