#Universe Today

[biglisbonnews]

One of the universe’s most iconic nebulas is changing — scientists don’t know why The Butterfly Nebula is changing, and astronomers are puzzled as to why these changes are occurring. Observations of this planetary nebula show dramatic changes in the butterfly’s ‘wings’ in just 11 years. https://www.inverse.com/science/butterfly-nebula

[squircatlies]

Get his ass, Gertrude.

[chalkrub]

dinosaur in a lab coat - would you trust her with operating the centrifuge

[xxplastic-cubexx]

something about first impressions idk

bonus:

[inkyvoids]

We live in an age of exoplanet discovery. One thing we’ve learned is not to be surprised by the kinds of exoplanets we keep discovering. We’ve discovered planets where it might rain glass or even iron, planets that are the rocky core remnants of gas giants stripped of their atmospheres, and drifting rogue planets untethered to any star. Now, astronomers have uncovered evidence of an exoplanet in a circumbinary disk around a binary star. The remarkable thing about this discovery is that the disk is in a polar configuration. That means the exoplanet moves around its binary star in a circumpolar orbit, and this is the first one scientists have found. AC Herculis (AC Her) is a binary star about 4200 light-years away. The primary star is well-studied, while its partner is invisible. It has a polar circumbinary disk, which is unusual but not unheard of. In a new paper, a team of researchers presents evidence for the polar circumbinary exoplanet.

[zonetrente-trois]

Does this not coincide with other unusual phenomena that happened in that year?

[ninyard]

fox tweets (pt 2.5) ((ft. jeremy))

[hyunpic]

240711 hynjinnnn instagram live

[meamiki]

silly comic based on a time i struggled to read live on stream :thumbsup:

context clip compilation below ASDASDFASA

(cw for brief mention of hospitals/strokes)

[somerandomcockroach]

My eyes are blurry for reading but if I squint I can draw, let's draw until I pass out

[biglisbonnews]

This Company Is Betting on a “Fusion Reactor Designed in Hell” A startup hopes a weird, pretzel-shaped reactor can scale up nuclear fusion energy. https://www.inverse.com/science/fusion-energy-device-pretzel-reactor

[nat111love]

THE PENGUIN 2024 ↳ Season 1 ↳ Episode 5

[lethalchiralium]

what is with COD tumblr and not going back to the basics of fanfiction. i want a good ol fashioned university au. i want them to all be different majors but they all are on the school’s athletic team (rugby, football, american football).

gaz is a theoretical physics major, TA for an AP maths class, he’s got a 4.0 gpa and always has. he is often found doing mathematical equations in his head as he works out. soap is a chemical engineering major, his minor in arts and specializing in drawing and ceramics. he’s been often kicked out of the explosives lab for blowing up some of his ceramic creations. ghost is a culinary major who takes it way too seriously, often pulling all nighters to get his creations right. he bakes bread before every important game in the season and rolls his eyes if anyone says it’s good. and price is a doctorate student in business, he’s already building a company from the ground up, yet he stills plays on the team because there’s nothing fun about sitting at a desk all day. (he loves simon’s cheese bread that he makes before every rival game day).

yes and they all share an apartment like shoresy. and yes, they all show interest in the team’s new assistant manager, you.

[suave1foru]

Just us

[inkyvoids]

Last September, NASA purposefully smashed a spacecraft into Dimorphos, a 160m-wide space rock orbiting a larger asteroid named Didymos. The goal of the mission, called DART (the Double Asteroid Redirection Test), was to demonstrate humanity’s ability to redirect hazardous asteroids away from Earth. That part of the mission was a success above and beyond all expectations. But now scientists are also learning more about the origins of the two asteroids. A study conducted in the wake of the DART impact found that Dimorphos is made from the same material as Didymos, and that the pair of asteroids likely originated from a single body.