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stargazerkamal · 8 months
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Chemicals Glow as a Meteor Disintegrates
Meteors can be colorful. While the human eye usually cannot discern many colors, cameras often can. Pictured here is a fireball, a disintegrating meteor that was not only one of the brightest the photographer has ever seen, but colorful. The meteor was captured by chance in mid-July with a camera set up on Hochkar Mountain in Austria to photograph the central band of our Milky Way galaxy. The radiant grit, likely cast off by a comet or asteroid long ago, had the misfortune to enter Earth's atmosphere. Colors in meteors usually originate from ionized chemical elements released as the meteor disintegrates, with blue-green typically originating from magnesium, calcium radiating violet, and nickel glowing green. Red, however, typically originates from energized nitrogen and oxygen in the Earth's atmosphere. This bright meteoric fireball was gone in a flash -- less than a second -- but it left a wind-blown ionization trail that remained visible for almost a minute.
Image Credit: Michael Kleinburger
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stargazerkamal · 1 year
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Everything is made to perish; the wonder of anything at all is that it has not already done so. No, he thought. The wonder of anything is that it was made in the first place. What persists beyond this cataclysm of making and unmaking?
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stargazerkamal · 1 year
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I want to be addicted to the night sky with you.
Fall in love with the twinkling stars and be cuddled by the moon's halo.
I want to sleep underneath the sunrise that graces your skin every dawn so that
I can feel the warmth of your touch on me
I want to devour life's pleasure with every kiss from your honey glazed lips.
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stargazerkamal · 1 year
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Say my name
Taste it on your tongue
Breathe it into your lungs
Till it mingles with your blood
Say my name
Let it escape with your breath
Onto your lips and into my ear
As you feel me enter
Say my name
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stargazerkamal · 1 year
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I licked her with my words
Touching her in hidden places
Without touching her,
Going down her thoughts
Slowly gliding my prose
Over her wet, ravenous soul
Until she opened wide her walls
And let me thrust deep
Inside her beautiful mind.
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stargazerkamal · 1 year
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How many stars does the universe
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stargazerkamal · 1 year
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“A kind of light spread out from her. And everything changed color. And the world opened out. And a day was good to awaken to. And there were no limits to anything. And the people of the world were good and handsome. And I was not afraid any more.”
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stargazerkamal · 2 years
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Distance doesn’t separate people. Silence does.
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stargazerkamal · 2 years
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All things are meltable, and replaceable. Not at this moment, but soon enough, we are lambs and we are leaves, and we are stars, and the shining, mysterious pond water itself.
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stargazerkamal · 2 years
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All that you see is nothing but a play of light between the stars and your eyes continuously revealing the most precious truth: you exist inside this universe just as much as it exists inside of you
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stargazerkamal · 2 years
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If you would put your mouth to my throat, you could breathe a taste of my sea.
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stargazerkamal · 2 years
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My heart bursts aflame at the sound of your name and sparks so hard that it rivals the stars.
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stargazerkamal · 2 years
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We kiss between the midnight hours
and the stars,
in that velvet shadow
of night's embrace
and the moon's wink,
your heart rubs itself against the
petaled lips of my soul-stealing
all the precious air
to fill its beats
with the life of my love.
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stargazerkamal · 2 years
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What is the nature of life? Life is lines of dominoes falling. One thing leads to another, and then another, just like you’d planned. But suddenly a Domino gets skewed, events change direction, people dig in their heels, and you’re faced with a situation that you didn’t see coming, you who thought you were so clever.
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stargazerkamal · 2 years
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Hope was never a thing with feathers.
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stargazerkamal · 2 years
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There are only two kinds of freedom in the world; the freedom of the rich and powerful, and the freedom of the artist and the monk who renounces possessions.
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stargazerkamal · 2 years
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Three Perseid Nights : Frames from a camera that spent three moonless nights under the stars create this composite night skyscape. They were recorded during August 11-13 while planet Earth was sweeping through the dusty trail of comet Swift-Tuttle. One long exposure, untracked for the foreground, and the many star tracking captures of Perseid shower meteors were taken from the village of Magyaregres, Hungary. Each aligned against the background stars, the meteor trails all point back to the annual shower’s radiant in the constellation Perseus heroically standing above this rural horizon. Of course the comet dust particles are traveling along trajectories parallel to each other. The radiant effect is due only to perspective, as the parallel tracks appear to converge in the distance against the starry sky. via NASA
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