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Stardust

this twilight, the moon is pale,

the sky purple-blue,

If you fly kisses to the stardust,

she’ll say she loves you too

and your open winter palms,

may seem a silver bay for waves

but my light will pull them up,

lunar leaps, splashing raves

so wait for the sun to rise,

watch me turn into gold

feel my warmth on your skin,

witness all the night foretold

I may form fireworks,

between your ribs, an unrest

but calm your heart darling,

I’ll bloom a garden in your chest

miss me not, miss me less,

I may never return, yet never leave

If i brush by in the wind,

do not frown, do not grieve,

for when the day turns to night,

and when they play tag again

just whisper to the stardusts

and you’ll hear me in them

I am a firework in your heart,

I am your kiss to skys above

I am only in your existence,

I am your longing for lost love

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In Circles (2012) by Alicja Kwade.

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Frank Kelly Freas

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Ron Walotsky

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Saturn’s atmosphere exhibits a banded pattern similar to Jupiter’s, but Saturn’s bands are much fainter and are much wider near the equator. The nomenclature used to describe these bands is the same as on Jupiter. Saturn’s finer cloud patterns were not observed until the flybys of the Voyager spacecraft during the 1980s. Since then, Earth-based telescopy has improved to the point where regular observations can be made. The composition of the clouds varies with depth and increasing pressure.

The winds on Saturn are the second fastest among the Solar System’s planets, after Neptune’s. Voyager data indicate peak easterly winds of 500 m/s (1,800 km/h).

Thermography has shown that Saturn’s south pole has a warm polar vortex, the only known example of such a phenomenon in the Solar System. Whereas temperatures on Saturn are normally −185 °C, temperatures on the vortex often reach as high as −122 °C, suspected to be the warmest spot on Saturn.

Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Space Science Institute and Kevin M. Gill