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  A RED BLOB IN THE NIGHT SKY:  This is starting to happen a lot in the state of Texas. On April 10th, around 2:14 in the morning, amateur astronomer Abdur Anwar looked up from Big Bend National Park and saw a glowing red blob glide across the starry sky. "I photographed it using my Google Pixel 6a phone in night mode," he says. "Is this a new aurora phenomenon?" he asks. No, it's SpaceX. About 90 minutes before the red blob appeared, a Falcon 9 rocket lifted off from the Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida, carrying 23 Starlink satellites to low-Earth orbit (Starlink Group 6-48). After the satellites were deployed, the rocket's second stage executed a de-orbit burn, creating the nearly-spherical red light. It's not the first time sky watchers have noticed this phenomenon. "We are seeing 2 to 5 of them each month," reports Stephen Hummel of the McDonald Observatory in Texas, who photographed  a spectacular example  last November. The

    Performing My Duty                                                                                     by                                                          Barbara Valentino No beta, all mistakes my own. The house is quiet; everyone to their own duties. I like to reflect on my roll in this house. Oh, now a bit of activity. The lovely young girl flits around like a little sparrow. She is so young yet very self assured. She knows what she has to do and when. She doesn't need the likes of me to remind her.         I hear the heavy foot falls of the head of the house heading toward his desk. How often I have seen this man pace the floor waiting for someone or something; yearning for what he lost. He would stand at the window, looking out longingly. In time he realized that time moves forward regardless of the pain. Oh he would come to me and stare in my face with sad eyes as if I could stop time. He closed his heart lest it be hurt again. He has seen much sadness and pain. M