#exploring the night skies

[donnatheastronomer]

Exploring the Night Sky: Planets to Watch in June

As we embark on June, the night sky continues to offer a celestial spectacle, with several planets gracing our view. From the brilliant Venus to the elusive Neptune, each world has its unique position and journey through the constellations. So, let’s grab our telescopes and explore the planets that will captivate our attention in June. Venus and Mars The evening sky is adorned by Venus and…

[gina025]

Relax your mind

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[ecoharbor]

📍Bajada de Antorchas, Ushuaia, Argentina 🇦🇷

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[fairyth0ts]

i got to see the northern lights a bit last night

[life-spire]

@ttrapani

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[thedarkkeep]

You were stunning to me.

[flockrest]

unprompted / always accepting / @gloryseized ( Link )

     So it's a pretty slow-going night for collecting star fragments, as it turns out.

     Which is totally fine! Really! They can't all be winners — and it gives Tulin all the more time to get Link caught up on everything that's happened to the flock while he was away!

     But. Well.

     Even in knowing this, the disappointment that ruffles his feathers is a hard thing to ignore. It's been too long since they'd last hung out like this, both ( mostly Link ) too busy with their own dedications and responsibilities ( mostly Link ) to find the chance to have fun just for the sake of having fun, and now the fun's not even gonna have the decency to start when they're all prepped for it to?

     Go figure.

     He chatters on some more 'bout the ( thankfully harmless but very hilarious all the same ) explosion Molli accidentally ignited on Master Revali's Landing the other day, continuing to try pacing his restlessness out along the deck of the Stormwind Ark near where Link's seated himself, before eventually flumping down beside him with a sigh he can't quite keep locked behind his beak. He lolls back 'til his head's on the hero's shoulder, semiplumes squished up 'gainst Link's ear and cheek.

     "Sorry it's so boring up here," he says, feeling ridiculous for it a second later 'cause it's not like Tulin has any sorta control over when and where stars fall. It still feels like it's kinda his fault for how things are going, though — they were s'pposed to be in Necluda's skies tonight ( they were s'pposed to be there two moon phasings ago, actually, but who's counting ) as per their routine, but his brother had arrived at their peaks real tired and Tulin hadn't wanted to push him into being, like, dead-tired. Even if Link insisted otherwise.

     The shoulder beneath his head rises and dips in what he's fairly sure is probably a snicker. Tulin turns then, playfully offended squawk already building up in his chest, 'cept Link isn't actually laughing at him.

<< I'm glad you're here. >>

     Oh.

     Feathers puffing with a delighted, tickling warmth, Tulin feels the joy that always sweeps over him when Link's being real nice like this all the way down to the tips of his talons. To all the tiniest spaces between his bones! They're flock and nest, 'course, so this isn't the first time he's been told something along these lines, but the love that radiates from that quiet smile and those assured signs just seems— heavier. Fuller. Link's-talking-'bout-more-than-right-here-and-now-er. It's seriously hard to resist bowling him over with a hug in the face of it.

     Tulin's getting better at not immediately ruining a peaceful moment when he sees one though, and that tends to require a more delicate touch. ( Or, uh, as delicate a touch as he can manage. )

     "That makes two of us!" he laughs, beaming with barely contained giddiness and nudging at Link with a wing. Then, y'know what, he gives the night sky around them one last look, scoots closer, and plops the back of his head right down onto his brother's lap. If the stars remained still for whatever time they have left before they gotta go, Tulin decides he wouldn't mind it if it meant being together like this just a while longer. "I'm glad you're here, too!"

[loubella77]

Pretty rainbow :)

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[fleurral]

passing by

[gina025]

Relax your spirit

[thoughtsnfeelingsofacloudedmind]

Need to find me some dark skies. 😍

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[underzemilkyway]

How To Make Space Travel Economically Viable | Economics Explained

Space exploration has long been the dream of science fiction authors and enthusiasts well before we even had the technology to explore life beyond our own planet. Today, astronauts live year-round in low-earth orbit aboard the ISS (International Space Station). We have put men on the moon, and we have companies that are said to be commercializing space. But, all of this begs the question: what will space exploration actually do for humanity?

[ajadedlens]

“𝙸 𝚑𝚊𝚟𝚎 𝚕𝚘𝚟𝚎𝚍 𝚝𝚑𝚎 𝚜𝚝𝚊𝚛𝚜 𝚝𝚘𝚘 𝚏𝚘𝚗𝚍𝚕𝚢 𝚝𝚘 𝚋𝚎 𝚏𝚎𝚊𝚛𝚏𝚞𝚕 𝚘𝚏 𝚝𝚑𝚎 𝚗𝚒𝚐𝚑𝚝.”

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