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let's talk about Bridgerton tea, my ask is open
Love Begins
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shark vs the universe
Xuebing Du
i don't do bad sauce passes
we're not kids anymore.
styofa doing anything
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todays bird
noise dept.
Cosmic Funnies
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I'd rather be in outer space 🛸
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Three Goblin Art
Jules of Nature
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@basement-physicist
SEST at night
The 15m Swedish-ESO Submillimetre Telescope (SEST) is designed to observe at sub-millimetric wavelengths (almost radio waves). It was built in 1987 on La Silla. The SEST has been decommissioned in 2003, with the beginning of operations at the new APEX telescope on Chajnantor.
Credit: ESO/H.Zodet
“Don’t call Trump supporters nazis, it hurts their feelings.”
Yes, this is real (link to tweet). Yes, Tucker Carlson is literally repeating Nazi propaganda that aided the genocide of the Romani during the Holocaust. Yes, I am furious.
(Also, although there is a large population of Romani in Romania, they aren’t indigenous to Romania. They’re a diasporic group originally from northern India.)
Romani and Jewish have been screaming at the top of their lungs for years about neo-fascism in Europe, and Americans were totally aloof.
Then neo-fascism reared its head in America, but Roma and Jews were left out of the conversation in terms of people being impacted, because our oppression was “over.”
Now Tucker Carlson is on live TV using slurs and Nazi propaganda about Romani people, and I’m 90% most people on the left are just going to ignore it.
It’s fucking starting y'all. It’s happening again.
If you’re not Jewish or Roma PLEASE BOOST THIS.
TODAY IN HISTORY: Apollo 15 astronaut Dave Scott on the Moon, working at the lunar rover, photographed by Jim Irwin, July 31, 1971. (NASA)
Star Trek: Discovery’s trailer featuring First Officer Burnham
25 YEARS AGO TODAY: The Space Shuttle Discovery blasts off from Cape Canaveral, July 31, 1992.
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can you explain a bit about the curvature of spacetime or how it's curved?
Thanks for asking!! It’s a little difficult ti picture curved space, so I highly recommend this video, it’s phenomenal at helping you understand how gravity arises from space and time being warped//curved by matter.
I think the above video does a phenomenal job at explaining gravity in terms of warping space and time; definitely watch it. The heavier an object, the more it warps space-time; this means that time gets slowed down with heavier objects, since the space and time become more warped. You may have heard that time flows slower on the earth than it does further up from its surface; time flows faster for astronauts since they experience less of earth’s gravity (since they are further away).
This visualization was the best one I could find? but tbh it’s still hard for pretty much everybody, including the world’s best physicists, to visualize and wrap their head around. Let me know if you have any other questions or need a clarification!! Also, you might want to check out the relativity/general relativity tag on my blog if you want to see some of the other posts i’ve made.
Astonishing Jupiter, observed by the Juno space probe on May 19, 2017. Processed by Sean Doran.
July 31, 1971 – An amazing sequence of photos by Apollo 15 astronaut Dave Scott captures moonwalker Jim Irwin working near the lunar rover and lunar module Falcon.
SEA OF PLASTIC: NEW MAP SHOWS THE HORRIBLE PRESENT OF FLOATING PLASTIC DEBRIS
A New Zealand company released a new map based on a 5Gyres study, about the plastic pollution in the world’s oceans’, the bad news is to visualize how much marine litter is floating in the oceans.
Based on measurements from 24 expeditions, model results estimated the global number of floating plastic pieces to be 5,250 billion with a combined weight of 268,940 tonnes.
This map visualises the estimated concentration of floating plastic debris in the world’s oceans. The weight density estimates are presented as a dot density map where one dot represents 20 kg of floating plastic. The estimated global mass of marine debris is plotted using more than 13 million dots.
The two oceans of the Northern Hemisphere contain 56% of all particles and 57% of the total weight. In the Southern Hemisphere the Indian Ocean appears to have a greater particle count and weight than the South Atlantic and South Pacific oceans combined.
Please visit Sailing Seas of Plastic for more info and interactive map
Meanwhile, The Ocean Cleanup Project is making progress, gaining investors, and testing their second prototype in a matter of days! I’m really hoping their innovation can help make a big dent in this huge problem.
Also, researchers are already finding that the plastics are coming into human food. Next time you buy sea salt, it might just have some bits of plastic in it.
I’ve been photographing the moon for almost two years - here are some of my personal faves!
Photos by: Cassandra Litten
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Students in Wheat Ridge, Colorado, will have the opportunity to speak with a NASA astronaut currently living and working aboard the International Space Station at 12:40 p.m. EST Friday, Nov. 18. The 20-minute, Earth-to-space call will air live on NASA Television and the agency’s website.
This week’s #WCW is Joan Beauchamp Procter, the first female curator of reptiles at the London Zoo. Yes, we’ll have that job, please.
Everything You Wanted to Know About the Cosmos
“Star Wars” Characters Reimagined with Adorably Matching Cats
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why is the universe mostly flat? is it cuz thingys revolving around more vertically than horizontally collided with other objects and either were neutralized, kicked out or took on a new horizontal orbit along with the rest of the universe?
it doesn’t have anything to do with the velocity or orbit of any of the objects in the universe. the shape of the universe depends solely on how the universe actually expands (which direction space stretches).
so far, the universe looks flat (no curvature) with an immense volume. as we continue to improve telescopes, and become able to see objects even further out we will continue to learn more about the universe’s shape and confirm if this approximation is true
