#UNIVERSE

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ESO 350-40, Cartwheel Galaxy

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A blurred photo of Sun? No! This is the clearest image ever taken of a star named Antares, located 550 light years from Earth.

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Cosmic Disco Ball, Mercury ©

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Hubble Multiwavelength OPAL Saturn

l NASA Hubble Mission Team l OPAL program

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✨🤎✨A new Year begin✨🤎✨

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Please reblog and donate if you can.

art by malak mattar

The Occupation has systematically destroyed every social infrastructure that makes civil society possible, whether it be healthcare, food systems, or education. In an attempt at genocide, they've targeted schools, hospitals, businesses, and every person who supports their community through their profession.

Rana and Ahmed (@ranafam2) are educators from Khan Yunis (Northern Gaza Strip), with Rana as a statistics professor at the Islamic University of Gaza and Ahmed as the principal of his school: both institutions have now been destroyed.

Palestinians have survived occupation for well over a century now, and they will remain steadfast, but they need your support.

In my conversation with Rana, she told me:

"Providing food and drink for my children right now is impossible. A bag of flour costs 1000 shekels ($272) and milk, for my little girl, is 100 shekels ($28). This is the least of what we need.

As for the tent, today my children froze from the cold because the tent is very, very, very worn out. And we drowned when it rained for a while. We couldn't sleep.

Please, if you know someone who can donate to me, I need it very, very much so that I can at least survive."

To help them get through this week, we must raise at least $1000 to cover the cost of flour and milk. The long term goal is $100,000.

As of today (12/28), we are at:

$162/$1000

Donate here.

Vetting + proof of conversation below the cut

Vetted by association

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do not limit the universe. god's voice speaks through everything. learn to be present and grateful. learn to listen with your whole bring. trust that you are guided towards your highest destiny.

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Random doodles✨️

Constellations and Hercules🌌

Scutum and Leo

Scorpius and Ophiuchus

Orion and... Takahiro??

And here we have Hercules✨️

What do you all think?? :D✨️

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Bubbles and Arcs in NGC 2359 - January 2nd, 1997.

"What caused the bubbles and arcs in NGC 2359? The main suspect is the Wolf-Rayet star in the center of one of the bubbles - visible slightly below and to the right of the center of the above photograph. Most Wolf-Rayet stars are known to be massive, highly luminous stars that continually cast off material in a stellar wind - which commonly form bubbles in the interstellar medium. But the unusual structure of the NGC 2359 arcs indicate something more complex is going on. Is the star moving supersonically? Is there another energetic star in the vicinity? Future observations may give more pieces to this picturesque puzzle."

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Two universes kissing

NGC 6302, Fairy Wings

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NASA just dropped a new James Webb telescope image months back of an open star cluster out in

It's called NGC 346.

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Dolphin Head Nebula © astrofalls

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CAN ENTANGLED PARTICLES COMMUNICATE FASTER THAN LIGHT??

Blog#467

Wednesday, January 1st, 2025.

Welcome back,

Happy New Year Everyone!

Entanglement is perhaps one of the most confusing aspects of quantum mechanics. On its surface, entanglement allows particles to communicate over vast distances instantly, apparently violating the speed of light. But while entangled particles are connected, they don't necessarily share information between them.

In quantum mechanics, a particle isn't really a particle. Instead of being a hard, solid, precise point, a particle is really a cloud of fuzzy probabilities, with those probabilities describing where we might find the particle when we go to actually look for it.

But until we actually perform a measurement, we can't exactly know everything we'd like to know about the particle.

These fuzzy probabilities are known as quantum states. In certain circumstances, we can connect two particles in a quantum way, so that a single mathematical equation describes both sets of probabilities simultaneously. When this happens, we say that the particles are entangled.

When particles share a quantum state, then measuring the properties of one can grant us automatic knowledge of the state of the other. For example, let's look at the case of quantum spin, a property of subatomic particles.

For particles like electrons, the spin can be in one of two states, either up or down. Once we entangle two electrons, their spins are correlated. We can prepare the entanglement in a certain way so that the spins are always opposite of each other.

If we measure the first particle, we might randomly find the spin pointing up. What does this tell us about the second particle? Since we carefully arranged our entangled quantum state, we now know with 100% absolute certainty that the second particle must be pointing down.

Its quantum state was entangled with the first particle, and as soon as one revelation is made, both revelations are made.

But what if the second particle was on the other side of the room? Or across the galaxy? According to quantum theory, as soon as one "choice" is made, the partner particle instantly "knows" what spin to be. It appears that communication can be achieved faster than light.

The resolution to this apparent paradox comes from scrutinizing what is happening when—and more importantly, who knows what when.

Let's say I'm the one making the measurement of particle A, while you are the one responsible for particle B. Once I make my measurement, I know for sure what spin your particle should have. But you don't! You only get to know once you make your own measurement, or after I tell you. But in either case, nothing is transmitted faster than light. Either you make your own local measurement, or you wait for my signal.

While the two particles are connected, nobody gets to know anything in advance. I know what your particle is doing, but I only get to inform you at a speed slower than light—or you just figure it out for yourself.

So, while the process of entanglement happens instantaneously, the revelation of it does not. We have to use good old-fashioned no-faster-than-light communication methods to piece together the correlations that quantum entanglement demand.

Originally published on https://phys-org.cdn.ampproject.org

COMING UP!!

(Saturday, January 4th, 2025)

"DID LIFE BEGIN IN DEEP SPACE??"

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I wish you all a very very very happy new year 2025✨ and I want say thank you so so much for your support and for your many rebloggs and likes 😍 I am so so proud about it 🥰🥰