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We held hands, long ago,
when we were young.
Life was worry free,
unlike this hectic,
pace of life.
Now, you no longer
will touch me.
What happened?
Where did it go?
I wish I knew.

NASA Astronomy Picture of the Day:

What does fire look like in space? In the gravity on Earth, heated air rises and expands, causing flames to be teardrop shaped. In the microgravity of the air-filled International Space Station (ISS), however, flames are spheres. Fire is the rapid acquisition of oxygen, and space flames meet new oxygen molecules when they float by randomly from all directions -- creating the enveloping sphere. In the featured image taken in the ISS's Combustion Integration Rack, a spherical flame envelopes clusters of hot glowing soot. Without oxygen, say in the vacuum of empty space, a fire would go out immediately. The many chemical reactions involved with fire are complex, and testing them in microgravity is helping humanity not only to better understand fire -- but how to put out fire, too.

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A crash
of water
becomes a spray
of salty liquid.
A light breeze,
is a force
of nature,
as salt spray,
wets my face.
Water drips,
from my chin.
I was dry
now I'm wet,
need a towel
and yet,
I love this
smell of the
ocean sea.

The cat's dander
was in the breeze,
causing my love
to have a sneeze.
A big, Achoo,
came from her head,
a noise so loud,
it could wake the dead.

A lost horizon,
the crashing Sun,
which sinks into
the day of oblivion.

What kind of words are
hither and yon?
Are they words you say,
for something beyond?
Does hither mean come
again to me,
for if you do not I may flee?
Does the word yon,
mean far away, across the pond,
to a foreign land, once here,
now gone?
Do the words together mean
to wander about aimlessly,
doing it together, simply free?

No matter where I wander,
no matter where I roam,
when I see the light in the window,
I'll know I am Home.

NASA Astronomy Picture of the Day:

What's the best way to watch a meteor shower? This question might come up later this week when the annual Perseid Meteor Shower peaks. One thing that is helpful is a dark sky, as demonstrated in the featured composite image of last year's Perseids. Many more faint meteors are visible on the left image, taken through a very dark sky in Slovakia, than on the right image, taken through a moderately dark sky in the Czech Republic. The band of the Milky Way Galaxy bridges the two coordinated images, while the meteor shower radiant in the constellation of Perseus is clearly visible on the left. In sum, many faint meteors are lost through a bright sky. Light pollution is shrinking areas across our Earth with dark skies, although inexpensive ways to combat this might be implemented. Notable Perseids Submissions to APOD: 2018, 2019, 2020

Photo by Tomas SlovinskySlovakiaPetr HoralekCzech RepublicInstitute of Physics in Opava

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NASA Astronomy Picture of the Day:

rthlings typically watch meteor showers by looking up. But this remarkable view, captured on August 13, 2011 by astronaut Ron Garan, caught a Perseid meteor by looking down. From Garan's perspective onboard the International Space Station orbiting at an altitude of about 380 kilometers, the Perseid meteors streak below, swept up dust left from comet Swift-Tuttle heated to incandescence. The glowing comet dust grains are traveling at about 60 kilometers per second through the denser atmosphere around 100 kilometers above Earth's surface. In this case, the foreshortened meteor flash is right of frame center, below the curving limb of the Earth and a layer of greenish airglow, just below bright star Arcturus. Want to look up at a meteor shower? You're in luck, as the 2021 Perseids meteor shower peaks this week. This year, even relatively faint meteors should be visible through clear skies from a dark location as the bright Moon will mostly absent. Notable Perseids Submissions to APOD: 2018, 2019, 2020

When your view of the World
has become, all muddled and grey.
When you life's love, dwindles more
than any words said or written,
who do you turn to?