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NASA Astronomy Picture of the Day:

Massive stars in our Milky Way Galaxy live spectacular lives. Collapsing from vast cosmic clouds, their nuclear furnaces ignite and create heavy elements in their cores. After a few million years, the enriched material is blasted back into interstellar space where star formation can begin anew. The expanding debris cloud known as Cassiopeia A is an example of this final phase of the stellar life cycle. Light from the explosion which created this supernova remnant would have been first seen in planet Earth's sky about 350 years ago, although it took that light about 11,000 years to reach us. This false-color image, composed of X-ray and optical image data from the Chandra X-ray Observatory and Hubble Space Telescope, shows the still hot filaments and knots in the remnant. It spans about 30 light-years at the estimated distance of Cassiopeia A. High-energy X-ray emission from specific elements has been color coded, silicon in red, sulfur in yellow, calcium in green and iron in purple, to help astronomers explore the recycling of our galaxy's star stuff. Still expanding, the outer blast wave is seen in blue hues. The bright speck near the center is a neutron star, the incredibly dense, collapsed remains of the massive stellar core.

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Listening to Gwyneth Herbert,
singing, "Only love can
break your heart."
Now "Blue Jean Baby"
sung by Elton John.
Listening to music was
always an enjoyment
and one I still enjoy.
Try listening to an American
artist. Raechel Yamagata. She
has a great sound.

He lived under the old bridge,
for a little less than a year.
he frightened all travelers,
providing a mask of his fear.

Why must I live this way?
Sadly, no friend to play.
He was lonely, alone,
and couldn't go away.

All it takes
are forty winks,
for me to fall asleep,
waking up are forty blinks.

My minds alert,
my body says to sleep.
I only do that if
conversations get too deep.

I walk around in a daze,
a confusing mind, no peep.
Finding now there is no justice,
when your mind is half asleep.

One of the most important
friend, whom I know,
acts the way you do,
when taking me to a show.

Very loud music,
is what it will be.
Now I'm not only deaf,
my eyes no longer see.

NASA Astronomy Picture of the Day:

How did we get here? We know that we live on a planet orbiting a star orbiting a galaxy, but how did all of this form? Since our universe moves too slowly to watch, faster-moving computer simulations are created to help find out. Specifically, this featured video from the IllustrisTNG collaboration tracks gas from the early universe (redshift 12) until today (redshift 0). As the simulation begins, ambient gas falls into and accumulates in a region of relatively high gravity. After a few billion years, a well-defined center materializes from a strange and fascinating cosmic dance. Gas blobs -- some representing small satellite galaxies -- continue to fall into and become absorbed by the rotating galaxy as the present epoch is reached and the video ends. For the Milky Way Galaxy, however, big mergers may not be over -- recent evidence indicates that our large spiral disk Galaxy will collide and coalesce with the slightly larger Andromeda spiral disk galaxy in the next few billion years. Open Science: Browse 3,000+ codes in the Astrophysics Source Code Library

It started with an ember,
a small, red glow,
enmeshed in the tinder,
flames beginning to grow.

Dry brush, under trees,
a kindling awaiting heat,
to stoke the flame, on wood,
the fire wants to eat.

It's started now, in forests
across the state of ours,
and will end in loss of lives,
after men work, hours and hours.

My Love for you,
shows no bounds.
It's how I feel,
when you're around.

He was working.
A good thing,
having a job,
to save money
towards a better
future, in life.