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NASA Astronomy Picture of the Day:

In 1986, Voyager 2 became the only spacecraft to explore ice giant planet Uranus close up. Still, this newly released image from the NIRCam (Near-Infrared Camera) on the James Webb Space Telescope offers a detailed look at the distant world. The tilted outer planet rotates on its axis once in about 17 hours. Its north pole is presently pointed near our line of sight, offering direct views of its northern hemisphere and a faint but extensive system of rings. Of the giant planet's 27 known moons, 14 are annotated in the image. Mixed with fuzzy background galaxies, the brighter moons show hints of Webb's characteristic diffraction spikes. And though these worlds of the outer Solar System were unknown in Shakespearean times, all but two of the 27 Uranian moons are named for characters in the English bard's plays.

Christmas Eve and Christmas Day
won't be the same anymore,
for my heart is broken.
So, what's in store?

Look for the good,
look for the door,
don't tell me to trust,
She's not here anymore.

A faraway look,
appears in her eyes.
One thousand memories,
a thousand sighs.

Remembering the love,
showered upon me,
by my beautiful wife,
I can no longer see.

Alone in my room,
wanting a drink.
The water is dripping
in the kitchen sink.

It's odd or funny,
how a mind works,
in finding a way
to avoid life's quirks.

Look for a reason
or a plausible excuse,
just don't get crazy
talking about a Moose.

The only moose
which comes into mind,
is Bullwinkle Moose
and a Rocket J Squirrel find.

A great day.
A grand event.
talked to my cousin,
who I'd never met.

I will say,
with a smile,
it was if I'd known
her for a long while.

We were not strangers,
She was a friend.
Someone who
helped me to mend.

Thank you, my cousin,
for helping me.
Hoping in the Spring,
You, I will see.

NASA Astronomy Picture of the Day:

For a brief moment, this brilliant fireball meteor outshone Jupiter in planet Earth's night. The serendipitous image was captured while hunting meteors under cold Canadian skies with a camera in timelapse mode on December 14, near the peak of the Geminid meteor shower. The Geminid meteor shower, asteroid 3200 Phaethon's annual gift, always arrives in December. Dust shed along the orbit of the mysterious asteroid causes the meteor streaks, as the vaporizing grains plow through our fair planet's upper atmosphere at 22 kilometers per second. Of course Geminid shower meteors appear to radiate from a point in the constellation of the Twins. That's below and left of this frame. With bright Jupiter on the right, also in the December night skyview are the Pleiades and Hyades star clusters.

Photo by Gaurav Singh

Sitting here,
as I wonder,
What happens next?
When life is asunder?

My love is gone.
I do know where.
Now my love,
I cannot share.

I want this to be,
a bad dream,
but it's not.
I want to scream,

Come back to me.
Please do, please do,
for I want to say,
I still love you.

Note to myself,
Let your mind run.
It's been a long while.
I'll be the one,

trying to write words
and further beguile,
all the readers,
who likes my style.

There never will be
enough words to write,
when we are facing
our own life's fight.

Do what you can,
making dreams come true,
for when I write,
I will say, I Love You.

All of you are important,
to me in this life.
I was quite happy,
here with my wife.

I thank all of you,
who have wished me well.
Your kind words are loved,
They make my heart swell.

I love this community,
which I find myself in.
Such a warm feeling,
I know not where to begin.