#our-brightest-stars

[xluciifer]

Lucifer's face when all the heathens in Hell come out to ask for dick sucking favors:

⸺ ❝ Ya see? Someone gets it! ❞

[fictionadventurer]

🌠

[akkivee]

happy halloween!!!!! and!!!!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY SASARA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[lookingforsneha]

Post-Azkaban Wolfstar and 'Where'd all the time go',

Cause you know they get so forgetful, when they look in eachother's eyes.

[jkftkth]

happy birthday taehyungieeeee 🫶🫶🫶

i pray 2025 has only happiness and freedom waiting for you. stay safe and healthy and i hope you know there’s so many who cherish you for you who you are and will always be behind you, wherever you go 🥹🥹

[im-still-a-robot]

Sailor Merope!!!

[thatuselesshuman]

Chapter Summary:

Jem tries to recover from his injuries

Story Summary:

James Blackthorn has done the impossible: he's been through two sets of Hunger Games and has lived to tell the tale. But now, he's been captured by the Capitol for saving Peeta and Katniss. Even if he were to escape, he still has a timer on his back from the disease that has yet to be cured. With snakes on both sides and a game of lies that could end in execution, how much time does Jem really have left?

First in the Series: Sorrow's Victor

[tippilo]

✨Read Chapter 28 on AO3✨

Pairing: Tom Riddle/Hermione Granger

Rating: Explicit

Summary: Hermione should have died at the Battle of Department of Mysteries. Falling through the veil should have killed her, everyone knew that. Instead, she found herself hurled into the past and her new life became entwined with the young, handsome, charming Tom Riddle.

Tom couldn't keep his eyes off her. The witch had secrets, an enigma that he couldn't wrap his head around. He found himself fixated. Obsessed. He wanted to trap the lion in a cage and uncover everything she kept hidden.

Features: Time travel/AU⏳, possessive/protective/obsessive/jealous Tom🥀, Tom/Hermione attend Hogwarts together🪄, Hermione can think for herself🧠, angst and drama🎭, humorous moments🤭, Tom Riddle who can be fluffy☁️, eventual smut/spice🌶️, eventual romance❤️‍🔥

[taehyungrainbow]

This is a special mood board

as I would like to dedicated this

to our angle ,who has become a star

on this day .

our precious little binnie who now has become a star shining brightly 😭

We'll miss you dearly and you'll forever be a happy memory of our lives

Thank you for bring us happiness

it's not your fault, it's ours for not noticing 😭that you need us, we're sorry and I hope u fine peace and in your soul too 😭

(I still can't believe he's not here anymore our precious binnie 😭)

I hope up there you'll be happy and also get relieve from all u went thought to make that decision

We love you and well continue to in our hearts, 🌷😭

[lokisasylum]

⭐️🌙

[elkkiel]

Do you want to make out

I've always been interested in metaphysics and alternative views of spirituality, especially as someone who is actively religious + believes in powers beyond our human comprehension. The concept of the soul is something I've always believed in, and I'm really intrigued by how other spiritual practices and cultures interpret the soul / special essence of humanity. It's something I love learning more about, especially some of the more mystical/ritualistic practices of diving deep into connecting and manipulating your divine spirit.

blah blah blah anyways i'm currently learning how to astral project so I can shove my ghost tongue down your throat in a hot supernatural long distance make out sesh. Just bring the mints and probably a few water bottles (maybe some painkillers too, just in case *wink with both eyes*) and i'll be down for whenever wherever, my silly little skidmark /p (unless... 😳👉👈) ^//3\\^

[pretentiouswreckingball]

CHAPTER THREE IS UP!!!

[thatconfusedanon]

You should make Mac n cheese but replace the milk with eggnog.

| It frowned and thought about it, was there even eggnog here?? ...Their brow furrows. |

That sounds... Dangerous.

| Something in them however was screaming 'Do it! Do it! Do it! What's the worst that could happen??' It sighed, anything to get it to quiet itself... |

[hyunebear]

happy hyunjuly to those who celebrate 🍀

[terminallyworkingonit]

JUSTICE FOR BONNIE

This is the most powerful call to ratio I've ever seen. It's like she's performing an incantation.

[nasa]

A Tour of Cosmic Temperatures

We often think of space as “cold,” but its temperature can vary enormously depending on where you visit. If the difference between summer and winter on Earth feels extreme, imagine the range of temperatures between the coldest and hottest places in the universe — it’s trillions of degrees! So let’s take a tour of cosmic temperatures … from the coldest spots to the hottest temperatures yet achieved.

First, a little vocabulary: Astronomers use the Kelvin temperature scale, which is represented by the symbol K. Going up by 1 K is the same as going up 1°C, but the scale begins at 0 K, or -273°C, which is also called absolute zero. This is the temperature where the atoms in stuff stop moving. We’ll measure our temperatures in this tour in kelvins, but also convert them to make them more familiar!

We’ll start on the chilly end of the scale with our CAL (Cold Atom Lab) on the International Space Station, which can chill atoms to within one ten billionth of a degree above 0 K, just a fraction above absolute zero.

Credit: NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center/Scott Wiessinger

Just slightly warmer is the Resolve sensor inside XRISM, pronounced “crism,” short for the X-ray Imaging and Spectroscopy Mission. This is an international collaboration led by JAXA (Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency) with NASA and ESA (European Space Agency). Resolve operates at one twentieth of a degree above 0 K. Why? To measure the heat from individual X-rays striking its 36 pixels!

Credit: NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center/Scott Wiessinger

Resolve and CAL are both colder than the Boomerang Nebula, the coldest known region in the cosmos at just 1 K! This cloud of dust and gas left over from a Sun-like star is about 5,000 light-years from Earth. Scientists are studying why it’s colder than the natural background temperature of deep space.

Credit: NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center/Scott Wiessinger

Let’s talk about some temperatures closer to home. Icy gas giant Neptune is the coldest major planet. It has an average temperature of 72 K at the height in its atmosphere where the pressure is equivalent to sea level on Earth. Explore how that compares to other objects in our solar system!

Credit: NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center/Scott Wiessinger

How about Earth? According to NOAA, Death Valley set the world’s surface air temperature record on July 10, 1913. This record of 330 K has yet to be broken — but recent heat waves have come close. (If you’re curious about the coldest temperature measured on Earth, that’d be 183.95 K (-128.6°F or -89.2°C) at Vostok Station, Antarctica, on July 21, 1983.)

We monitor Earth's global average temperature to understand how our planet is changing due to human activities. Last year, 2023, was the warmest year on our record, which stretches back to 1880.

Credit: NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center/Scott Wiessinger

The inside of our planet is even hotter. Earth’s inner core is a solid sphere made of iron and nickel that’s about 759 miles (1,221 kilometers) in radius. It reaches temperatures up to 5,600 K.

Credit: NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center/Scott Wiessinger

We might assume stars would be much hotter than our planet, but the surface of Rigel is only about twice the temperature of Earth’s core at 11,000 K. Rigel is a young, blue star in the constellation Orion, and one of the brightest stars in our night sky.

Credit: NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center/Scott Wiessinger 

We study temperatures on large and small scales. The electrons in hydrogen, the most abundant element in the universe, can be stripped away from their atoms in a process called ionization at a temperature around 158,000 K. When these electrons join back up with ionized atoms, light is produced. Ionization is what makes some clouds of gas and dust, like the Orion Nebula, glow.

Credit: NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center/Scott Wiessinger

We already talked about the temperature on a star’s surface, but the material surrounding a star gets much, much hotter! Our Sun’s surface is about 5,800 K (10,000°F or 5,500°C), but the outermost layer of the solar atmosphere, called the corona, can reach millions of kelvins.

Our Parker Solar Probe became the first spacecraft to fly through the corona in 2021, helping us answer questions like why it is so much hotter than the Sun's surface. This is one of the mysteries of the Sun that solar scientists have been trying to figure out for years.

Credit: NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center/Scott Wiessinger

Looking for a hotter spot? Located about 240 million light-years away, the Perseus galaxy cluster contains thousands of galaxies. It’s surrounded by a vast cloud of gas heated up to tens of millions of kelvins that glows in X-ray light. Our telescopes found a giant wave rolling through this cluster’s hot gas, likely due to a smaller cluster grazing it billions of years ago.

Credit: NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center/Scott Wiessinger

Now things are really starting to heat up! When massive stars — ones with eight times the mass of our Sun or more — run out of fuel, they put on a show. On their way to becoming black holes or neutron stars, these stars will shed their outer layers in a supernova explosion. These layers can reach temperatures of 300 million K!

Credit: NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center/Jeremy Schnittman

We couldn’t explore cosmic temperatures without talking about black holes. When stuff gets too close to a black hole, it can become part of a hot, orbiting debris disk with a conical corona swirling above it. As the material churns, it heats up and emits light, making it glow. This hot environment, which can reach temperatures of a billion kelvins, helps us find and study black holes even though they don’t emit light themselves.

JAXA’s XRISM telescope, which we mentioned at the start of our tour, uses its supercool Resolve detector to explore the scorching conditions around these intriguing, extreme objects.

Credit: NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center/CI Lab

Our universe’s origins are even hotter. Just one second after the big bang, our tiny, baby universe consisted of an extremely hot — around 10 billion K — “soup” of light and particles. It had to cool for a few minutes before the first elements could form. The oldest light we can see, the cosmic microwave background, is from about 380,000 years after the big bang, and shows us the heat left over from these earlier moments.

Credit: NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center/Scott Wiessinger

We’ve ventured far in distance and time … but the final spot on our temperature adventure is back on Earth! Scientists use the Large Hadron Collider at CERN to smash teensy particles together at superspeeds to simulate the conditions of the early universe. In 2012, they generated a plasma that was over 5 trillion K, setting a world record for the highest human-made temperature.

Want this tour as a poster? You can download it here in a vertical or horizontal version!

Credit: NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center/Scott Wiessinger

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