Why Would I Worry
• 12/11/23 at 07:13AM •Why would I worry,
why should I fret,
when all which I know,
I will soon forget.
Why would I worry,
why should I fret,
when all which I know,
I will soon forget.
NASA Astronomy Picture of the Day:
When did you first learn to identify this group of stars? Although they are familiar to many people around the world, different cultures have associated this asterism with different icons and folklore. Known in the USA as the Big Dipper, the stars are part of a constellation designated by the International Astronomical Union in 1922 as the Great Bear (Ursa Major). The recognized star names of these stars are (left to right) Alkaid, Mizar/Alcor, Alioth, Megrez, Phecda, Merak, and Dubhe. Of course, stars in any given constellation are unlikely to be physically related. But surprisingly, most of the Big Dipper stars do seem to be headed in the same direction as they plough through space, a property they share with other stars spread out over an even larger area across the sky. Their measured common motion suggests that they all belong to a loose, nearby star cluster, thought to be on average only about 75 light-years away and up to 30 light-years across. The cluster is more properly known as the Ursa Major Moving Group. The featured image captured the iconic stars in 2017 above Pyramid Mountain in Alberta, Canada. Night Sky Network webinar: APOD editor to review coolest space images of 2023
Photo by Steve Cullen
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It was in early Spring,
the frost was still here.
It was sunny but cold.
Colder than normal this year.
Too early to plant,
for at night it would freeze.
Put on your warmest coat
and many sweaters, please.
Light was the breeze,
close to the ground,
but frost on the grass,
was what I found.
Ring the bell,
peal the sound,
and treasure your love,
uphill and down.
In bad times
or good times as well,
it is the time,
to stay thee from Hell.
Her memories are gone.
I will try to retain,
them, for her, writing words.
Perhaps they will remain.
Goodness will prevail,
Twas said to me.
I will only speak,
of that to thee,
for the evil which
lurks in a man,
is hard to fathom,
or to understand,
the nature of a person,
who is a man.
Emotionless at times,
stubborn, when taking a stand.
NASA Astronomy Picture of the Day:
Near dawn on November 19 the Pleiades stood in still dark skies over the French Pyrenees. But just before sunrise a serendipitous moment was captured in this single 3 second exposure; a bright meteor streak appeared to pierce the heart of the galactic star cluster. From the camera's perspective, star cluster and meteor were poised directly above the mountain top observatory on the Pic du Midi de Bigorre. And though astronomers might consider the Pleiades to be relatively close by, the grain of dust vaporizing as it plowed through planet Earth's upper atmosphere actually missed the cluster's tight grouping of young stars by about 400 light-years. While recording a night sky timelapse series, the camera and telephoto lens were fixed to a tripod on the Tour-de-France-cycled slopes of the Col du Tourmalet about 5 kilometers from the Pic du Midi.
Photo by Jean-Francois Graffand
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