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NASA Astronomy Picture of the Day:

How does the Moon's appearance change during a total lunar eclipse? The featured time-lapse video was digitally processed to keep the Moon bright and centered during the 5-hour eclipse of 2018 January 31. At first the full moon is visible because only a full moon can undergo a lunar eclipse. Stars move by in the background because the Moon orbits the Earth during the eclipse. The circular shadow of the Earth is then seen moving across the Moon. The light blue hue of the shadow's edge is related to why Earth's sky is blue, while the deep red hue of the shadow's center is related to why the Sun appears red when near the horizon. Tomorrow, people living from southeast Asia, across the Pacific, to the southwest Americas may get to see a Blood Supermoon Total Lunar Eclipse. Here the term blood refers to the (likely) red color of the fully eclipsed Moon, while the term supermoon indicates the Moon's slightly high angular size -- due to being relatively close to the Earth in its slightly elliptical orbit. Details: Total Lunar Eclipse on 2021 May 26

A loss of love.
The loss of a child.
A mental grief, hurtful,
with very much pain.
The feeling of loss;
explain it, I can't,
for there is no joy
and there never will be,
someone as dear as you.
Hear I am alone again.

Where are you now?
Have you left me again?
Has your mind slipped away?
Should I just pretend,
to know what you think,
when there isn't anything there?
I wish I knew the answer,
I most certainly do,
for I miss the person,
who I am married to.

There are many words stuck in my head.
So many words, yet to be said.
Why must they be locked deep inside?
Are these words, which I should hide?
The answers will come, only from me.
Should I write or let them be?
A simple question, one I should trust
before this mind has turned into dust.

Act normal.
What does it mean?
I have emotions.
I'm not a machine.
I can't turn off
my feelings or dreams,
for I am who I am,
as my heart beams
for those I love.
It's not what it seems.

NASA Astronomy Picture of the Day:

Expansive Utopia Planitia on Mars is strewn with rocks and boulders in this 1976 image. Constructed from the Viking 2 lander's color and black and white image data, the scene approximates the appearance of the high northern martian plain to the human eye. For scale, the prominent rounded rock near center is about 20 centimeters (just under 8 inches) across. Farther back on the right side of the frame the a dark angular boulder spans about 1.5 meters (5 feet). Also in view are two trenches dug by the lander's sampler arm, the ejected protective shroud that covered the soil collector head, and one of the lander's dust covered footpads at the lower right. On May 14, China’s Zhurong Mars rover successfully touchdown on Mars and has returned the first images of` its landing site in Utopia Planitia.

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Where are these dreaded words
coming from, as my hands write free?
Are these the thoughts, in my head
or mind, as I watch them flee.
Must I admit or just relent
from these words which come from me?
It's time to let go of this life,
leavingthe sadness to all of thee.

NASA Astronomy Picture of the Day:

In 1716, English astronomer Edmond Halley noted, "This is but a little Patch, but it shews itself to the naked Eye, when the Sky is serene and the Moon absent." Of course, M13 is now less modestly recognized as the Great Globular Cluster in Hercules, one of the brightest globular star clusters in the northern sky. Sharp telescopic views like this one reveal the spectacular cluster's hundreds of thousands of stars. At a distance of 25,000 light-years, the cluster stars crowd into a region 150 light-years in diameter. Approaching the cluster core upwards of 100 stars could be contained in a cube just 3 light-years on a side. For comparison, the closest star to the Sun is over 4 light-years away. The remarkable range of brightness recorded in this image follows stars into the dense cluster core. Distant background galaxies in the medium-wide field of view include NGC 6207 at the lower right.

Photo by Martin Dufour

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This life is amazing.
This life is a blast,
for these inked word,
absolutely will not last.
Gone on the morrow.
No more to be seen.
Written by hand,
not a machine.

I am not a genius,
of this I am aware.
I'm just filling space
as I sit upon my chair.