Is That You David?

On this day (Jan. 8) in 1642, Galileo Galilei passed away.

The Italian native was an astronomer, engineer, and a physicist. This distinguished figure is known as the father of observational astronomy, modern science & physics, and the scientific method. He is also known for his telescopic observations, which helped support the then controversial model of heliocentrism.

Rest in Peace.

The love that was gifted to me was too much

Too much to handle

So I settled for less

Not knowing it wouldn't be enough

                                               Bluer than Blue

∆Some more Color Correspondences∆

Silver: femininity, awakening to spirituality and the cosmic mind, intuition, the moon, divination

Gold: masculinity, divine protection, wisdom, inner knowledge, universal energy, the sun

Black: contemplation of the universe, protection, elegance, power, mystery, the unknown

Grey: dignity, seeing between white and black, unseen health problems

Indigo: intuition, divination, psychic awareness, akashic records, clarity of the mind, third eye chakra

Lavender: dreams, imagination, etheric energy

Turquoise: sensitivity to emotions, compassion, healing, counseling, immune system health

Emerald: healing, love, emotions, love of others and oneself

Violet: spiritual sensitivity, intuition, psychic power, healing of body and mind, deep awareness, gateways to spirit

Part 1

What’s Up For August 2018?

The summer Perseids are here! 

The Perseid meteor shower is the best of the year! It peaks on a Moonless summer night from 4 p.m. EST on August 12 until 4 a.m. EST on August 13.

Because the new Moon falls near the peak night, the days before and after the peak will also provide nice, dark skies. Your best window of observation is from a few hours after twilight until dawn, on the days surrounding the peak.

Unlike most meteor showers, which have a short peak of high meteor rates, the Perseids have a very broad peak, as Earth takes more than three weeks to plow through the wide trail of cometary dust from comet Swift-Tuttle.

The Perseids appear to radiate from the constellation Perseus, visible in the northern sky soon after sunset this time of year. Observers in mid-northern latitudes will have the best views.

You should be able to see some meteors from July 17 to August 24, with the rates increasing during the weeks before August 12 and decreasing after August 13.

Observers should be able to see between 60 and 70 per hour at the peak. Remember, you don’t have to look directly at the constellation to see them. You can look anywhere you want to-even directly overhead.

Meteor showers like the Perseids are caused by streams of meteoroids hitting Earth’s atmosphere. The particles were once part of their parent comet-or, in some cases, from an asteroid.

The parade of planets Venus, Jupiter, Saturn and Mars–and the Milky Way continue to grace the evening sky, keeping you and the mosquitoes company while you hunt for meteors.

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Namjoon being candid and open

Images, 1ere série, CD 105/L.110 - I. Reflets Dans L’eau ( Reflections In The Water )

Year/Date of Composition : 1904-05

By Composer Claude Debussy

Dennis Lee, Pianist

'Space Butterfly' Is Home to Hundreds of Baby Stars

What looks like a red butterfly in space is in reality a nursery for hundreds of baby stars, revealed in this infrared image from our Spitzer Space Telescope. Officially named Westerhout 40 (W40), the butterfly is a nebula — a giant cloud of gas and dust in space where new stars may form. The butterfly’s two “wings” are giant bubbles of hot, interstellar gas blowing from the hottest, most massive stars in this region.

Besides being beautiful, W40 exemplifies how the formation of stars results in the destruction of the very clouds that helped create them. Inside giant clouds of gas and dust in space, the force of gravity pulls material together into dense clumps. Sometimes these clumps reach a critical density that allows stars to form at their cores. Radiation and winds coming from the most massive stars in those clouds — combined with the material spewed into space when those stars eventually explode — sometimes form bubbles like those in W40. But these processes also disperse the gas and dust, breaking up dense clumps and reducing or halting new star formation.

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Clair de lune, Claude Debussy