Wouldn't It Be Nice

“I love the person I’ve become, because I fought to become her.” — Kaci Diane

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The Great Meteor Storm of 1833

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SOURCE: rbb32 https://flic.kr/p/Rnffiz

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ASTRONOMY PICTURE OF THE DAY August 16, 2025 The camera battery died about 2am local time on August 12, while shooting in the bright moonlit skies from a garden in Chastre, Brabant Wallon, Belgium, planet Earth. But not before it captured the frames used to compose this cool animated gif of a brilliant Perseid meteor and a lingering visible trail known as a persistent train. The Perseid meteor, a fast moving speck of dust from the tail of large periodic Comet Swift-Tuttle, was heated to incandescence by ram pressure and vaporized as it flashed through the upper atmosphere at 60 kilometers per second. Compared to the brief flash of the meteor, its wraith-like trail really is persistent. A characteristic of bright meteors, a smoke-like persistent train can often be followed for many minutes wafting in the winds at altitudes of 60 to 90 kilometers. Image: https://ift.tt/eqOWC5v via NASA https://ift.tt/nQIog0Y APOD --> https://ift.tt/vqtaCzH

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NASA Remembers Apollo Astronaut Jim Lovell Lovell was the first astronaut to go to space four times and, as part of the Apollo 8 crew, the first to launch on the Saturn V rocket and first to go into lunar orbit, making them the first people in human history to set eyes on the far side of the moon. He is most famous as being the Apollo 13 Commander whose steady hand helped pilot his crew safely back to Earth — as the entire world watched, and held their breath. Godspeed, Jim Lovell Mar 25, 1928 – Aug 7, 2025 (age 97)

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Phil Greenwood (UK b. 1943) End of Day etching and aquatint 69 x 59 cm

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Herringbone

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Full Moons 2023

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Fukita Fumiaki

Eyes (Me)

1965

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hir·aeth

/‘hir,āeth/

noun a homesickness for a home you can not return to or a home that never was.

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The Daily Pantagraph, Bloomington, Illinois, January 2, 1939

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“This is one more piece of advice I have for you: don’t get impatient. Even if things are so tangled up you can’t do anything, don’t get desperate or blow a fuse and start yanking on one particular thread before it’s ready to come undone. You have to realize it’s going to be a long process and that you’ll work on things slowly, one at a time.” – Haruki Murakami

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1929… Amelia Earhart - goes diving! by x-ray delta one https://flic.kr/p/2ktTt8P