Astronomy Picture of the Day (APOD)

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IC 59 and IC 63 in Cassiopeia [predominantly purple pic]

The very picture of a easy-to-get-lost-in deep-purple cosmic dream, isis!




When the deep purple falls over sleepy garden walls
And the stars begin to flicker in the sky
Through the mist of a memory you wander back to me
Breathing my name with a sigh
In the still of the night once again I hold you tight
Though you're gone, your love lives on when moonlight beams
And as long as my heart will beat, lover we'll always meet
Here in my deep purple dreams
Here in my deep purple dreams

Fun factoid: Pianist Peter DeRosa's 1933 instrumental "Deep Purple" proved such a pop hit that in 1938 suitably dreamy lyrics 
(about romance 'n' lost love 'n' stuff, naturally!) were provided by Mitchell Parish, promptly turning it into an even bigger pop-hit
amongst Earthlings (who, because of their several-million-years'-worth of genetic heritage of heterosexual mating habits are just 
suckers for anything along this line, even in these latter days when the memes have successfully transferred to any number of
other sexual-symbiotism schemes, sometimes involving other species, inanimate objects, and indeed even immaterial abstractions). 
English Guitarist Ritchie Blackmoore's grandmother considered this her favourite song, and often played it in her home, where 
he heard it many a time during his childhood. It made such an impression on him that in 1968 he suggested its title as the new 
name for his soon-to-be-very-popular-indeed progressive/hard/heavy-metal rock group (which was then performing under the
name Roundabout) . . . 
Note: the unused second-choice for band-name was Concrete God.







 

You know, all this luminous haze of pan-Galactic panoramic purple pulchritude suggests a great song-title:

https://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/imagegal..._1172.html
https://www.space.com/22581-purple-haze-...photo.html
https://noisey.vice.com/en_us/article/wn...mi-hendrix
http://uforeview.tripod.com/hendrix.html
http://aquarianradio.com/2014/07/22/maui...teve-omar/



Hey, that song-title would make a great name for a TV series about an earnest (yet comically clueless) group of benign aliens
trying to pass as human whilst on recon and species-study duty on our solar system's third planet, Earth . . . but for copyright-royalty
reasons you'd probably have to change it a bit, say, substitute "rock" for "stone" . . .


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G6JN8pY1bOw&t=144s

All of which reminds me that I worked and strived mystically for years and years and finally realized the the Truth: that the Cosmos was within me --

-- and all I got for it was this lousy t-shirt!