#dark matter

[das-a-kirby-blog]

doodle page commission for @gferamos

[facts-i-just-made-up]

Hello Mr.? Facts, can you explain what dark matter and antimatter are?

If you step in it on a sidewalk, it's "dark matter." If you scrape it off and gets on the stick, that part is not considered "antimatter."

[rhonuscorner]

What do you mean one of your first priorities shouldn't be showing your new alien roommates silly cat videos on the internet? That's like peak human culture! How else are they supposed to acclimate to life on earth??

Quick doodle because I'm still feeling somewhat artblocked and I had a shitty weekend where nothing was working out for me and uuuugh.

Anyway. There's a reason why I gave Y/N a cat. I will turn these two into extraterrestial cat moms or so help me!

Yes I know the anatomy is all over the place I don't care lol

[anistarrae]

[jenniferconelly70]

Jennifer Connelly - The Hot Spot (1990)

[sixofheartz]

Kirbtober 2024 31 • Darkness

[kaekolormore]

kirby's dream land three boss butch sprite redraws

[aimer-arts]

By your side.

[mattis-flo]

another installment of "I listened to all of the final boss themes and needed to draw them within the duration of their theme" ignore that I forgot dark nebula's name and excluded dark from mirror taranza's name

i couldn't fill all the empty spaces with Kirby's, sorry for that

[nasa]

The Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope’s flight harness is transferred from the mock-up structure to the spacecraft flight structure.

Your Body is Wired Like a NASA Space Telescope. Sort Of.

If our Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope were alive, its nervous system would be the intricate wiring, or “harness,” that helps different parts of the observatory communicate with one another. Just like the human body sends information through nerves to function, Roman will send commands through this special harness to help achieve its mission: answering longstanding questions about dark energy, dark matter, and exoplanets, among other mind-bending cosmic queries. 

Roman’s harness weighs around 1,000 pounds and is made of about 32,000 wires and 900 connectors. If those parts were laid out end-to-end, they would be 45 miles long from start to finish. Coincidentally, the human body’s nerves would span the same distance if lined up. That’s far enough to reach nearly three-fourths of the way to space, twice as far as a marathon, or eight times taller than Mount Everest! 

An aerial view of the harness technicians working to secure Roman’s harness to the spacecraft flight structure.

Over a span of two years, 11 technicians spent time at the workbench and perched on ladders, cutting wire to length, carefully cleaning each component, and repeatedly connecting everything together.  

Space is usually freezing cold, but spacecraft that are in direct sunlight can get incredibly hot. Roman’s harness went through the Space Environment Simulator – a massive thermal vacuum chamber – to expose the components to the temperatures they’ll experience in space. Technicians “baked” vapors out of the harness to make sure they won’t cause problems later in orbit.  

Technicians work to secure Roman’s harness to the interior of the spacecraft flight structure. They are standing in the portion of the spacecraft bus where the propellant tanks will be mounted.  

The next step is for engineers to weave the harness through the flight structure in Goddard’s big clean room, a space almost perfectly free of dust and other particles. This process will be ongoing until most of the spacecraft components are assembled. The Roman Space Telescope is set to launch by May 2027. 

Learn more about the exciting science this mission will investigate on X and Facebook. 

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[itsquakey]

Gooey? Gooey.

[ghostbny]

Kirbytober day 14: Miracle

[rhonuscorner]

This.. is for science...

*takes a screaming cicada & through it at silence sun*

Please refrain from throwing bugs at my precious boys 😭 They're already traumatized.

You try explaining to him that they're harmless when he can't even understand a word you say lol.

[j0celynh0rr0r]

Death Magic 🩸🔪