White was the Color
• 12/07/23 at 11:05PM •White was the color,
reflecting in her eyes.
Perfume, the scent,
caused me to realize,
here was a passion,
a beauty to see,
whose joyful manner,
became her personality.
White was the color,
reflecting in her eyes.
Perfume, the scent,
caused me to realize,
here was a passion,
a beauty to see,
whose joyful manner,
became her personality.
NASA Astronomy Picture of the Day:
On December 5, 2022, a camera on board the uncrewed Orion spacecraft captured this view as Orion approached its return powered flyby of the Moon. Beyond one of Orion's extended solar arrays lies dark, smooth, terrain along the western edge of the Oceanus Procellarum. Prominent on the lunar nearside Oceanus Procellarum, the Ocean of Storms, is the largest of the Moon's lava-flooded maria. The lunar terminator, shadow line between lunar night and day, runs along the left of this frame. The 41 kilometer diameter crater Marius is top center, with ray crater Kepler peeking in at the edge, just right of the solar array wing. Kepler's bright rays extend to the north and west, reaching the dark-floored Marius. By December 11, 2022 the Orion spacecraft had reached its home world. The historic Artemis 1 mission ended with Orion's successful splashdown in planet Earth's water-flooded Pacific Ocean.
NASA Astronomy Picture of the Day:
It's stars versus dust in the Carina Nebula and the stars are winning. More precisely, the energetic light and winds from massive newly formed stars are evaporating and dispersing the dusty stellar nurseries in which they formed. Located in the Carina Nebula and inside a region known informally as Mystic Mountain, these pillars' appearance is dominated by opaque brown dust even though it is composed mostly of clear hydrogen gas. Even though some of the dust pillars look like torches, their ends are not on fire -- rather, they are illuminated by nearby stars. About 7,500 light-years distant, the featured image was taken with the Hubble Space Telescope and highlights an interior region of Carina known as HH1066 which spans nearly a light year. Within a few million years, the stars will likely win out completely and the dust torches will completely evaporate.
The spirts fly,
high at night.
Some tequila,
will make it right.
Oh joy! At last a vision of loveliness,
You have that smile,
and the blue eyes,
which will beguile.
Your voice as sweet
as honey to the bee.
Your speech, soft it tis,
I enjoy seeing thee.
I sit,
I stare,
at your face,
you're not aware.
You're dressed,
in a Holiday style,
but you are asleep.
I await your smile.
What once was,
is no longer here.
They're just memories,
in a rear-view mirror.
The fleeting images,
of days gone by,
are fading away.
My question. Why?
An observation, today, in memory care.
The scourge is here,
eating from another's plate.
He can't help it, I suppose,
he doesn't remember, he already ate.
I sit with her,
she smiles,
she sleeps,
no words,
lonely and sad,
describes me,
yet I sit.
NASA Astronomy Picture of the Day:
It was one of the most energetic particles ever known to strike the Earth -- but where did it come from? Dubbed Amaterasu after the Shinto sun goddess, this particle, as do all cosmic rays that strike the Earth's atmosphere, caused an air shower of electrons, protons, and other elementary particles to spray down onto the Earth below. In the featured illustration, a cosmic ray air shower is pictured striking the Telescope Array in Utah, USA, which recorded the Amaterasu event in 2021 May. Cosmic ray air showers are common enough that you likely have been in a particle spray yourself, although you likely wouldn't have noticed. The origin of this energetic particle, likely the nucleus of an atom, remains a mystery in two ways. First, it is not known how any single particle or atomic nucleus can practically acquire so much energy, and second, attempts to trace the particle back to where it originated did not indicate any likely potential source. Open Science: Browse 3,200+ codes in the Astrophysics Source Code Library