If you are looking for some images for the upcoming Fourth of July celebrations, then this week’s pic will give you everything you need. The red, white, and blue of these images from the Chandra X-ray Observatory should put you in the right spirit.
The images from the top clockwise are Cassiopeia A, the ZwCl 0024+1652 galaxy cluster, spiral galaxy NGC 4736, and nebula NGC 3603. You can learn more about each of these images at this NASA site.
Happy Fourth of July!
NASA is busy tracking the various large asteroids around the solar system, so we are a few paces ahead of the dinosaurs. Go to this link to learn more.
For more about Asteroid Day, go to this link.
Note: Go here for more Earth Day images from NASA.
A Light Exists in Spring
by Emily Dickenson
A Light exists in Spring
Not present on the Year
At any other period –
When March is scarcely here
A Color stands abroad
On Solitary Fields
That Science cannot overtake
But Human Nature feels.
It waits upon the Lawn,
It shows the furthest Tree
Upon the furthest Slope you know
It almost speaks to you.
Then as Horizons step
Or Noons report away
Without the Formula of sound
It passes and we stay —
A quality of loss
Affecting our Content
As Trade had suddenly encroached
Upon a Sacrament
Source: https://allpoetry.com/poem/13630827-A-Light-exists-in-Spring-by-Emily-Dickinson
Our Awesome Universe 