#The Universe is amazing

[alex99a]

The Universe is Amazing !!!

If you go outside on a clear evening and look to the northern sky, this is what you will see.

Polaris, the "North Star" is actually a triple star system composed of the bright supergiant Polaris Aa which is in orbit with the dimmer Polaris Ab and Polaris B. Situated less than 1° away from the north celestial pole, Polaris is currently our "pole star" over the North pole and is useful for navigation.

At this time of year (we're getting on toward fall as I post this) if you look to the approximately 7 o'clock position you will see two stars in a line aimed nearly directly at Polaris. These are the stars Merak and Dubhe which form the front of the "bowl" of the asterism (what we used to call constellation) The Big Dipper. The Dipper rotates slowly around Polaris over the course of the year with those two stars always pointing at it. So, you can tell the time of year (absent other clues of course) by where The Big Dipper lies in relation to Polaris.

The Universe Is Amazing !!!

(editor Alex here. For all the people accusing me of being a Nazi because of the unfortunate resemblance of the above illustration, I suppose if you have evil in your heart you ascribe evil to others. Why not keep it to yourself.)

[price1972]

After listening to the black hole (shudders), I’m scared to listen to Saturn 😂

NASA Data Sonification: Black Hole Remix

In this sonification of Perseus. the sound waves astronomers previously identified were extracted and made audible for the first time. The sound waves were extracted outward from the center. (source)

[kaycartoons]

I know the animation industry has been going through a serious rough patch in the past 10 years. I just hope the medium and the artists making it can get the respect they deserve someday soon. So I wanna take a moment to spread a reminder of the powerful emotional scenes we've gotten from animation in the past 10 years.

[crystal-bytes]

GIFTOBER 2023

DAY THIRTY-ONE: FREE CHOICE

A timeline of DONALD GLOVER and MILES MORAELS

Spider-Man 3 (2007) / The Amazing Spider-Man (2012) / Donald Glover: Weirdo (2012) / Community 2x01 "Anthropology 101" (2010) / Ultimate Fallout #4 (2011) / "Not Going Back" Live Performance (2011) / Ultimate Spider-Man 3x11 "The Spider-Verse: Part Three" (2015) / Spider-Man: Homecoming (2017) / Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse (2018) / Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse (2023)

[sm-baby]

CARNIVAL AU

I wanted to try my own take at a sort of "swap au " :3! though-- it's more a "role swap" than anything else, haha!

I give yall Zooble another time cuz I'm sleepyyy

[embracing-the-ineffable]

It has everything. A mystery, misread handwriting, dance memes and metaphors, 25 year old movie posters, and a reminder about "how weird and temporary and connected everything in the universe is".

Zoozve, my beloved

[crumb-crumblet-s-crumbington]

guys who got abandoned

[comics-centalx]

Dick and Jason's responses are the only correct ones

[fellatitledthemf]

[tjippie]

Colours are an endless supply of wonder. Ever need to activate your philosophical brain bits? Think about colours. Do they look the same for all of us? Does it matter if they do? What about for other species? How do we even see them? What's the correlation between moderns aesthetically pleasing and evolutionary needs? Why didn't we see blue for a long time? Why do different cultures have words for a different amount of colours? What is the relationship between sensory input and brain-interpration? Could we ever truly experience colours like others would? What even is consciousness?

[painted-lemon]

um can we make this a real thing??????

please tag any other fandom that could use this meme format

[alex99a]

Here's a map of your neighborhood...

... the Milky Way galaxy, if we could see it from outside.

The Universe Is Amazing !!!

[naughty-salsa]

[tomatertate]

watering the plants, who else will take care of them?

(office AU belongs to @pikavani !!)

[litrallytyrus]

2024 BULLET JOURNAL SPREADS! (^_-)-☆

a collective post of all of my monthly bullet journal spreads, where each month is themed around a different cartoon!!!!

(november & december in reblogs!)

[treef-greef]

filling the space between us with some sense of normal