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Women want one thing and it's quite obvious, A large affordable interconnected North American Rail Network

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Juno paints her husband soo pretty

The Juno spacecraft made a recent flyby of Jupiter and some of the photos it captured are absolutely gorgeous! Here are a few NEW photos. We will add more photos to this post.

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The universe is not empty. We are very aware that we are bound to the Earth. The Earth is bound to the Sun and the Sun to the Milky Way galaxy. The Milky Way is bound to the neighboring galaxy Andromeda, both residing in the Virgo supercluster of galaxies. And the Virgo supercluster senses all the other galaxies and all the accumulated energy in our observable universe. So we don’t live in a flat, empty spacetime.

Astronauts also don’t float in empty space. They can see the Earth spin and the Sun roll along. They are falling and weightless, but on a path we’ve been accustomed to calling an orbit, an orbit around the Earth in orbit around the Sun in a glacially long orbit around the galaxy. Their paths aren’t straight. Their paths are curved into a circle around the Earth sewn into the circle around the Sun sewn into the path around the galaxy, because free-fall paths are curved when the sky isn’t empty. Because space is curved by the presence of matter and energy.

Black Hole Survival Guide — Janna Levin

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It wrinkles my brain that Jupiter’s moon Europa has oceans that are sixty miles deep, while Earth’s oceans only reach seven miles deep at most. I’m willing to bet good money that there’s life in Europa’s oceans. Like five bucks. You hear me, NASA? I bet you five bucks that there’s life on Europa… Now that there’s money and reputation on the line, I bet they send a mission there real quick.

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milky way galaxy ❣️💛❤️ via Physics Is Fun

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Appears to be a binary star system in which a nebula from a late stage star (the smaller green one) has given rise to the birth of a younger and brighter star. They orbit eachother and the gravitation waves which result disturb the gas surrounding them, which seems also to be being pushed outward and rather off center from the smaller star due to the younger star's expulsion of energy and material.

Can anyone guess what this is?

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Stan Groff interviews Albert Hoffman about LSD, its discovery, history, and potential in the development of human consciousness:

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Color is back baby!

Let doodles become Oodles

This is "The Sound of Life" inspired by the Love playing my electric guitar Sadie

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My head is way past the clouds baby

From a Bigthink article about darkmatter: Showing how the rations of hot to cool dark matter influence the formation of spacetime structures and phenomena. Top to bottom cool to hot. Dark matter on left. Star formations right

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If you incorporate train sounds into your electronic music I will tell every person I meet about you and become your audio pixie spreading stardust goodblessings on you and everywhere around you

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Status: in a loving committed relationship with public railway system

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Picture of the bubble nebula and surrounding objects : Top left (the vague group of stars): M52 an open cluster

Center right: NGC 7538 an emission nebula (also known as the northern lagoon nebula)

Bottom center: NGC 7635/the bubble nebula and the surrounding hydrogen cloud

The ''bubble'' part of this nebula is created by the stellar wind (flow of gas, plasma and particle) emitted by the central star at nearly 650 million km/h hitting and compressing the surrounding interstellar gas. The central star (BD +602522) is currently estimated to be about 45 times heavier than our sun and about 4 million years old. Being so massive and thus very hot (it's a type O star) its lifespan is very limited for a star and it should go supernova in about 10 to 20 million years.

BD +602522 is slightly off center from the bubble, this is due to the interstellar gas being a bit more dense on one side and thus slowing the stellar wind more efficiently.

Single exposure to make the central star more visible.

Image taken using a CarbonStar 150/600 newtonian telescope with a 0.95 coma corrector, ZWO ASI294 monochrome camera. 12x300s image for each colour filter (LRGB) and 12x300s for the Ha filter, total imaging time 5h, stacking and processing done in PixInsight.

Starless version of the same image:

Older image where the bubble is more distinct from the background hydrogen clouds :

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How wholesome, how earthy and human the train is.

How beautiful, how lovely, listening to a lover's playlist and gazing at the passing scenery, the trees, the moss, the fields, the mountains across the valley touched with snow.

How nostalgic, how embracing the way the train flows, rolls, carries with sureness and determination. There is a solidity in its heaviness, a legend in its body. A constellation of memories carrried and held and set free as it curves through the landscape.

On the train, I am a part of the blood of the country, a thread in the human tapestry, a gem tumbled by the river amongst all the other grains. Tenderly, lightly, leaving the impressions of my trajectory in the streambed of the world.

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AFLAMEAROSE found a home tonight 🥰 Oh she is so beautiful, twirlingly, glowingly, blazingly beautiful and powerful and kind. What a life, what love, oh what wonderful love 💖

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images of hands working by the usda forest service & forest health protection, 1970s.

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Searching For Solar Systems - November 15th, 1996.

"Observational astronomy has provided evidence of the existence of massive Jupiter-sized planets orbiting distant suns, protoplanetary disks of gas and dust surrounding newly formed stars, and planetary bodies orbiting exotic stellar corpses known as pulsars. Indeed, the formation of planets seems to be a broader and more varied phenomenon than previously imagined. Are there nearby solar systems with Earth-sized planets as well? Many would answer yes, but small, relatively low mass planets orbiting sun-like stars - which might be capable of supporting life - are extremely difficult to detect. One possible approach to this daunting observational problem is to regularly monitor the light from many solar-type stars, searching for the slight decrease in brightness which signals the transit of a small planet in front of the stellar disk. A proposal for a space-based instrument to engage in such a program, the Kepler Mission, is illustrated above. In this concept, the monitoring space telescope orbits the Sun, slowly drifting away from Earth. The goal of this mission would be to discover Earth-sized planets in the habitable zone of solar-type stars, taking a step toward answering the profound question - Does life exist on other worlds beyond our Solar System?"