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A hallway,
a life shared,
she wanders,
unafraid, unprepared.

She's seeking,
something, someway,
she doesn't know
and can't even say.

NASA Astronomy Picture of the Day:

Bright at infrared wavelengths, this merging galaxy pair is some 500 million light-years away toward the constellation Delphinus. The cosmic mashup is seen against a background of even more distant galaxies, and occasional spiky foreground stars. But the galaxy merger itself spans about 100,000 light-years in this deep James Webb Space Telescope image. The image data is from Webb's Near-InfraRed Camera (NIRCam) and Mid-InfraRed Instrument (MIRI). Their combined, sharp infrared view follows galactic scale restructuring in the dusty merger's wild jumble of intense star forming regions and distorted spiral arms

Lost are the words,
you said to me,
they have become painful,
when I come to thee.

Forever more, are the days
when Christ was born,
as all Christians,
lay in fear, forlorn.

A manger then,
where the newborn lay,
as travelers were bound,
having come to pay
respect to the newborn,
on Christ's birthday.

Comes the day tomorrow,
we thought would never come.
For riches unfulfilled,
on this day we welcome.

Where hath love gone?
Once so easy, spontaneous,
why do desires flee?
Is there no romantic justice?

Last month of the Lunar Calander,
a time for recollection,
before embarking on a New Year.]
Time to learn and apply those lessons
to the new year's limitless opportunities.

NASA Astronomy Picture of the Day:

On flight day 13 (November 28) of the Artemis 1 mission the Orion spacecraft reached its maximum distance from Earth. In fact, over 430,000 kilometers from Earth its distant retrograde orbit also put Orion nearly 70,000 kilometers from the Moon. In the same field of view in this video frame from flight day 13, planet and large natural satellite even appear about the same apparent size from the uncrewed spacecraft's perspective. Today (December 1) should see Orion depart its distant retrograde orbit. En route to planet Earth it will head toward a second powered fly by of the Moon. Splashdown on the home world is expected on December 11.

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A lust for life,
a cry of shame.
You once loved me,
can't recall your name.

NASA Astronomy Picture of the Day:

This colorful skyscape spans about four full moons across nebula rich starfields along the plane of our Milky Way Galaxy in 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) 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 reflection nebulae, like vdB 155 to the right, 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. Below and right of center, the Herbig-Haro object emission is generated by energetic jets from a newborn star.

Photo by Anthony Quintile