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NASA Astronomy Picture of the Day:

You might not immediately recognize this street map of a neighborhood in Jyväskylä, Finland, planet Earth. But that's probably because the map was projected into the night sky and captured with an allsky camera on January 16. The temperature recorded on that northern winter night was around minus 20 degrees Celsius. As ice crystals formed in the atmosphere overhead, street lights spilling illumination into the sky above produced visible light pillars, their ethereal appearance due to specular reflections from the fluttering crystals' flat surfaces. Of course, the projected light pillars trace a map of the brightly lit local streets, though reversed right to left in the upward looking camera's view. This light pillar street map was seen to hover for hours in the Jyväskylä night.

Photo by Harri Kiiskinen

Flowers will bloom,
in early Spring.
Oh, the joys,
warm days will bring.

Daffodils will raise
their trumpet high,
as Spring comes,
making a floral sky.

Tulips will be next,
when they grow,
putting on a,
Spring floral show.

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Loy • 01/25/2024 at 09:21PM • Like 1 Profile

❤️💕

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MFish • 01/25/2024 at 11:11PM • Like 1 Profile

Loy. Thank you for your friendship.

A withered rose,
it's life now spent,
after struggling,
when grown in cement.

Look at me.
How pretty I was.
Now here I am,
once pretty, now dust.

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Loy • 01/25/2024 at 09:27PM • Like Profile

Beautiful photos, although I like the live rose best.

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MFish • 01/25/2024 at 11:19PM • Like Profile

Me also.

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