#Messier 61

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The Swelling Spiral Galaxy, M61 // alistairmac

[world-beauty]

Messier 61 Close Up

Credits: NASA, ESA, Hubble, ESO, Robert Gendler, RobertoColombari

[harmonytre]

Featured Character #61: Joan with Messier (mine)

Featured Character #84: Seras

Both for Saragonvoid on Toyhouse!

[lili-loves-whump]

Hi!

Could you write something about an often regarded terrifying Supervillain who is actually just a big softy and super protective of others when not in combat that owns a facility for heroes that have been abused by the agency and are trying to escape ,pls?

...

lili-loves-whump presents:

The Rehabilitation Centre

Supervillain ran a hand over their face. in front of them, Hero held up their fists and snarled. "Fight me."

Supervillain rolled their eyes, lifting their hands and sending Hero flying into the wall with a groan.

They ran away as soon as they turned their back.

...

The Centre was a soft cream colour, with five floors and a round garden that wrapped around the entrance. Supervillain smiled pleasantly and adjusted they suit. the doors flung open with a wave of their hand.

"Ah, Supervillain. Nice to see you."

Supervillain smiled politely. "Hello, Polly."

Polly put on her glasses and passed Supervillain a key card without looking up from her screen. "Cecile has been asking about you all day."

Supervillain nodded slowly and walked towards the elevator. It played a merry lofi beat, and Supervillain nodded their head in time with the tune.

The third floor was by far their favourite. The heroes there were independent enough to talk and laugh with them, but not so much so they realised Supervillain was, well... a Supervillain. The doors pulled open and they stepped inside, breathing in a faint whiff of peppermint and lavender. "Luna put have chosen the incense scent for today," they used, reaching forward to knock on door 314.

Cecile, or Hero #61, was probably Supervillain's best friend (or something more). They'd rescued her themselves, from underneath the rubble of an abandoned factory. She'd been covered in bruises and whip-marks, particularly on her neck, chest and back, and had shown classic signs of pet/house conditioning. She'd taken about a month to be able to walk, two to read and write comfortably, and four to interact and pay attention to strangers.

Supervillain was very proud.

"Celly," they hissed, knocking again. "Are you there?"

Silence.

"Celly?"

Silence.

Supervillain laughed. "I'm coming in, sleepyhead."

They waved their hands and the door flung open silently. Supervillain stepped inside and frowned. The room was a mess, much messier than they'd ever seen it. There eyes widened as they sweeped the room: the window was broken.

[messieral]

El Diario del Monstruo - fragm. 61

Mi cuerpo se defiende mientras mi mente navega por sitios exclusivos en los que almaceno las despedidas más tristes y los encuentros más exquisitos. ¿Hasta qué punto la realidad da más asco de lo que debería? Ellas aún entonan tímidamente “Thank You” y me hacen feliz; dos de ellas destacan por su inmensa calidad de posibles/imposibles, sonrío. #Messieral

6/05/2024: Las fiebres altas y las drogas de farmacia han irrumpido en el menú del día de hoy. Los días en los que bien podría dedicarme al descanso y a la contemplación están siendo complicados, están siendo de poca acción. Mi cuerpo se defiende mientras mi mente navega por sitios exclusivos en los que almaceno las despedidas más tristes y los encuentros más exquisitos. ¿Hasta qué punto la…

[ka5bou]

M1 - Crab Nebula

See full resolution image at: https://www.astrobin.com/rejqjs/

The Crab Nebula (catalogue designations M1, NGC 1952, Taurus A) is a supernova remnant and pulsar wind nebula in the constellation of Taurus. The common name comes from a drawing that somewhat resembled a crab with arms produced by William Parsons, 3rd Earl of Rosse, in 1842 or 1843 using a 36-inch (91 cm) telescope. The nebula was discovered by English astronomer John Bevis in 1731. It corresponds with a bright supernova recorded by Chinese astronomers in 1054 as a guest star. The nebula was the first astronomical object identified that corresponds with a historically-observed supernova explosion.

The nebula was independently rediscovered in 1758 by Charles Messier as he was observing a bright comet. Messier catalogued it as the first entry in his catalogue of comet-like objects; in 1757, Alexis Clairaut reexamined the calculations of Edmund Halley and predicted the return of Halley's Comet in late 1758. The exact time of the comet's return required the consideration of perturbations to its orbit caused by planets in the Solar System such as Jupiter, which Clairaut and his two colleagues Jérôme Lalande and Nicole-Reine Lepaute carried out more precisely than Halley, finding that the comet should appear in the constellation of Taurus. It was in searching in vain for the comet that Charles Messier found the Crab Nebula, which he at first thought to be Halley's comet. After some observation, noticing that the object that he was observing was not moving across the sky, Messier concluded that the object was not a comet. Messier then realized the usefulness of compiling a catalogue of celestial objects of a cloudy nature, but fixed in the sky, to avoid incorrectly cataloguing them as comets. This realization led him to compile the "Messier catalogue"

At an apparent magnitude of 8.4, comparable to that of Saturn's moon Titan, it is not visible to the naked eye but can be made out using binoculars under favorable conditions. The nebula lies in the Perseus Arm of the Milky Way galaxy, at a distance of about 2.0 kiloparsecs (6,500 ly) from Earth. It has a diameter of 3.4 parsecs (11 ly), corresponding to an apparent diameter of some 7 arcminutes, and is expanding at a rate of about 1,500 kilometres per second (930 mi/s), or 0.5% of the speed of light.

At the center of the nebula lies the Crab Pulsar, a neutron star 28–30 kilometres (17–19 mi) across with a spin rate of 30.2 times per second, which emits pulses of radiation from gamma rays to radio waves. At X-ray and gamma ray energies above 30 keV, the Crab Nebula is generally the brightest persistent gamma-ray source in the sky, with measured flux extending to above 10 TeV. The nebula's radiation allows detailed study of celestial bodies that occult it. In the 1950s and 1960s, the Sun's corona was mapped from observations of the Crab Nebula's radio waves passing through it, and in 2003, the thickness of the atmosphere of Saturn's moon Titan was measured as it blocked out X-rays from the nebula.

This RGB image is a total of a little under 6 hours of integration over 2 nights (2/18/24 and 2/25/24) consisting of:

- 190 x 60s light frames

- 61 x 120s light frames

- 10 x 180s light frames

Processed in PixInsight using the new GradientCorrection tool (which really helped with the moon-induced gradients on the data taken 2/18).

Celestron C9.25 Edge at F/10

ZWO ASI2600MC Pro Camera

Optolong L-Pro filter

ZWO AM5 mount

Astromania 50mm f/4 Guide Scope

ZWO ASI120MM Mini Guide Camera

ZWO ASIAIR plus controller

[goalhofer]

October 29, 2022 famous birthdays.

Cornelius McGillicuddy III aka Connie Mack III (American senator), 82

Denny Laine (British singer & guitarist), 78

Richard Dreyfuss (American actor)(pictured), 75

Denis Potvin (Canadian hockey player & commentator), 69

Dan Castellaneta (American voice actor), 65

Mike Gartner (Canadian hockey player), 63

Joel Otto (American hockey player & coach), 61

Yasmin Le Bon (British model), 58

Michael Passons (American singer), 57

Edwin Van Der Sar (Dutch soccer player & executive), 52

Winona Horowitz Hahn aka Winona Ryder (American actress), 51

Gabrielle Union-Wade (American actress)(pictured), 50

Éric Messier (Canadian hockey player), 49

Lin Hsi-Lei (Taiwanese actress & model), 49

Milena Govich Cornue (American actress & singer), 46

Jon Abrahams (American actor), 45

Brendan Fehr (Canadian actor), 45

Travis Henry (American football player), 44

Kelly Smith (British soccer player), 44

Ariel Yi-Chen Lin (Taiwanese actress & singer), 40

Chelan Simmons Street (Canadian actress & model), 40

Maurice Clarett (American football player), 39

Dana Eveland (American baseball player), 39

Eric Staal (Canadian hockey player), 38

Andy Dalton (American football player), 35

Tove Lo (Swedish singer & songwriter), 35

Janoris Jenkins (American football player), 34

India Eisley (American actress), 29

Astrid S (Norwegian singer & songwriter), 26

[kimbureh]

I posted 1,304 times in 2022

That's 728 more posts than 2021!

201 posts created (15%)

1,103 posts reblogged (85%)

Blogs I reblogged the most:

@lierdumoa

@kimbureh

@icarus-suraki

@cpt-bagel

@skullchicken

I tagged 1,209 of my posts in 2022

Only 7% of my posts had no tags

#disco elysium - 390 posts

#lol - 197 posts

#tumblr - 88 posts

#art - 61 posts

#capitalism - 53 posts

#internet - 38 posts

#ofmd - 35 posts

#writing - 33 posts

#fandom - 32 posts

#disco elysium spoilers - 28 posts

Longest Tag: 139 characters

#which is: people subconsciously seek out spaces like this to voice ill-fitting opinions cuz a subconscious part of them *wants* to be chall

My Top Posts in 2022:

#5

th... there is crypto-fascist pie in Disco Elysium and you can make Kim drop it on the ground...?!???

this man is too powerful

243 notes - Posted January 12, 2022

#4

it just hit me that *of course* Harry has been in on the “pissing competition”. He rolls into Martinaise not just with his partner, but with the whole Major Crimes Unit in order to *annihilate* whoever Precinct 57 would send, to lay that rivalry to a rest once and for all. None of them, except Judit, in police uniform, mind you. They plan to play dirty, maybe even to play dirty on the 57er.

maybe that’s why Jean is treating Kim so deliberately respectful, almost bordering to being meek, when the whole posse meets at the end. This detective from Precinct 57 not just went through a whole week of Harry’s bullshit, he also solved the case with Harry and got a nice photo to boot. How do you look the guy in the eye who you set out to utterly crush with your savant police pixie partner only for him to not only surpass your expectations in every regard, but then *join* your fucking precinct.

just wow. those two will have a lot work off lol

302 notes - Posted January 9, 2022

#3

Disco Elysium’s world is doubted to be a planet, it seems fractured into geometric shapes from below low orbit. It’s difficult to picture something like that, Harry understandably struggles with that as well. You can have this conversation with Joyce:

Joyce Messier - "They say there is a rarefied envelope of matter surrounding the darkened disc of our planet. That is, if we are still living on a planet. Or, to speak more plainly, imagine vast swathes of land disrupted by nothingness."

Joyce Messier -  "I am sorry, detective," she looks around. "Philosophically speaking -- it must sound *quite terrifying*. Even scientific positivism isn't entirely convinced about what we're dealing with here..." 

Joyce Messier -  "But -- this is one of the great questions of our time. Maybe when they get the complete set together it will jolt us out of our rut -- bring us together. However naive it may sound." 

You -  "A fractured corona doesn't feel like it's gonna bring anyone *together*."

Joyce Messier -  "You have mis-imagined it. I don't have the power to convey to you the effect and geometry of the images that depict our world from below low orbit. It's..." 

Joyce Messier -  She looks up: "It's like the crowning of the world. It's insane. Very *disco*. You'd love it."

A darkened disk disrupted by nothingness, a fractured corona, geometry, very *disco*. That’s quite difficult to picture. Here are some ideas.

This is the Revolving House (1921) by Paul Klee. The Cubism style often aims to depict its subject from multiple angles at once, creating a confusing map of overlapping perspectives. This painting lacks the dark nothingness Joyce mentions, but it possesses the fractured and geometric properties. I was thinking about this painting when I painted this:

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410 notes - Posted March 7, 2022

#2

once saw an interview with one of the Disco Elysium writers, and the interviewer reacted with surprise when he learned none of ZA/UM were English native speakers. The interviewer hadn’t even considered the fact that people from Estonia don’t grow up speaking English.

As a non-native English speaker myself, the first thing that struck me about the development history of DE was that a group of Estonian writers did the tough work, acquired the needed language skills *and* effectively had to abandon their mother tongue in order for their creative work to be *seen*.

Changing the language changes the art, but if you don’t, you get overlooked. And that’s what it’s really about. Non-native speakers naturally are expected to make this barter, and English speakers aren’t even *aware*.

1,131 notes - Posted January 15, 2022

My #1 post of 2022

speaking of Ao3 not being a social medium:

it will always need money. It’s an archive. Even if they meet their yearly donation aim now without any problem doesn’t mean it will be like this in 5 years, in 10 years, in 80 years. Yeah you read that right. Ao3 is an Archive. It intends to be available forever. Like a library. Because Ao3 *is* a library. If you want to keep your library, you wouldn’t cut its budget just because it did well last year. Maintaining a library creates running expenses. The purpose of an archive is to preserve data indefinitely, and this costs money.

40,063 notes - Posted August 12, 2022

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[chibinotan]

Golden Star Birth

[mystarypi-astronomy]

This is the Black Eye Galaxy! 🌌🌌🌌

The disk of this galaxy vigorously produces stars with its rapid inflow of mass into the incredibly active black hole at the center. An inner disk produces this galaxy’s distinct dust lane that gives it its name! 🌃🌃🌃

Taken by me (Michelle Park) using the Slooh Canary Two telescope on March 7th, 2021 at 4:53 UTC.

[demiurgeua]

Телескоп «Хаббл» зробив світлину галактики в сузір'ї Діва

Телескоп «Хаббл» зробив світлину галактики в сузір’ї Діва

Телескоп Hubble, який є спільним проектом Національного управління з аеронавтики й дослідження космічного простору США (National Aeronautics and Space Administration, NASA) та Європейського космічного агентства (European Space Agency, ESA), зробив знімок спіральної галактики M61 (NGC 4303), яка розташована в сузір’ї Діва на відстані понад 52 мільйона світлових років від Землі. Окрім великої…

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The Swelling Spiral Galaxy, M61 // Jens Andersen Dolmer

[thetimeandspaceblog]

Messier 61 Close Up

Image data from the Hubble Space Telescope, the European Southern Observatory, and small telescopes on planet Earth are combined in this magnificent portrait of face-on spiral galaxy Messier 61 (M61). A mere 55 million light-years away in the Virgo Cluster of Galaxies, M61 is also known as NGC 4303. It's considered to be an example of a barred spiral galaxy similar to our own Milky Way. Like other spiral galaxies, M61 also features sweeping spiral arms, cosmic dust lanes, pinkish star forming regions, and young blue star clusters. The bright galactic core is offset to the left in this 50 thousand light-year wide close-up.

Image Credit: NASA, ESA, Hubble, ESO, Amateur Data; Processing & Copyright: Robert Gendler & Roberto Colombari

Hubble Space Telescope

Time And Space

[spinningblueball]

Messier 61 [NGC 4303]

[cosmicvastness]

A portrait of a beauty

Nuzzled in the chest of the constellation Virgo (the Virgin) lies a beautiful cosmic gem — the galaxy Messier 61. This glittering spiral galaxy is aligned face-on towards Earth, thus presenting us with a breathtaking view of its structure. The gas and dust of the intricate spiral arms are studded with billions of stars. This galaxy is a bustling hub of activity with a rapid rate of star formation, and both a massive nuclear star cluster and a supermassive black hole buried at its heart. Messier 61 is one of the largest members of the Virgo Cluster, which is made up of more than a thousand galaxies, and is itself at the centre of the Virgo Supercluster — to which our Milky Way also belongs. This dazzling beauty was first discovered in 1779, and it has been capturing astronomers’ interest ever since. Set against a dark sky littered with galaxies, this image shows the awe-inspiring M61 in its full glory — even at its distance of over 50 million light-years. Credit: ESO

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Parker really went "yeah we're gonna make the perfect mess-free filling system" and then up and did thus monstrosity