ave maris stella

Southern, Catholic, RN, neuro junkie. Basically everything that makes me happy. St. Maria Magdalena, pray for us. "I am the Queen of Heaven and the Mother of Mercy; I am the joy of the just, and the door through which sinners are brought to God." - Mary to St. Brigid of Sweden (Rev. 1.6, c.10)

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Cosmic Cliffs of Carina

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AUTUMN (秋)

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New James Webb Pictures!

New James Webb Pictures of Neptune!

This is the first time we’ve gotten a picture of Neptune’s rings - we’ve known they’re there for a while, and now we have pictures!

And here’s the visible moons labeled! (neptune has more moons than that)

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The Comet and the Fireball : This picture was supposed to feature a comet. Specifically, a series of images of the brightest comet of 2021 were being captured: Comet Leonard. But the universe had other plans. Within a fraction of a second, a meteor so bright it could be called a fireball streaked through just below the comet. And the meteor’s flash was even more green than the comet’s coma. The cause of the meteor’s green was likely magnesium evaporating from the meteor’s pebble-sized core, while the cause of the comet’s green was likely diatomic carbon recently ejected from the comet’s city-sized nucleus. The images were taken 10 days ago over the Sacramento River and Mt. Lassen in California, USA. The fireball was on the leading edge of this year’s Geminid Meteor Shower – which peaked a few days later. Comet Leonard is now fading after reaching naked-eye visibility last week – but now is moving into southern skies. via NASA

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Misty Autumn walks in the gold-dusted pines.

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North Vietnam rural village. Credit to Nguyễn Ngọc Thắng.

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Nuestra Señora de los Dolores, Pedro Américo Giclee (1883)

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Churchyard Square and the ancient gothic graveyard at Rye, East Sussex. The surrounding cottages are fifteenth century (my photos @ryecheri IG)

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“Flower Hall“ by | Kim Go

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Side Altar of the Sacred Heart

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Anna Bondaruk a Szeptunka from the village of Rutka prays at her home. Bondaruk claims to have a personal connection with Mary and sees villagers throughout the day for healing.

Location: Podlasie Province, Poland

Photographer: Diana Markosian

In remote northeastern Poland there lives a group of elderly Orthodox devotees who are said to possess special powers. They can heal the sick, cast out demons — even still a foe’s heart. Living at a mystical crossroad of Christian faith and folkloric superstition, they consider themselves members of the church, though the church does not. They are called “Whisperers or Szeptun in Polish.

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Christ with the Sick Around Him, Receiving Little Children, Rembrandt Harmensz. van Rijn, 17th century, Minneapolis Institute of Art: Prints and Drawings

Modern Size: 10 15/16 x 15 5/16 in. (27.8 x 38.9 cm) (plate) Medium: Etching and drypoint and engraving

https://collections.artsmia.org/art/57591/

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The Gotha Missal: Fol. 56v, Text, Master of the Boqueteaux, c. 1375, Cleveland Museum of Art: Medieval Art

This elegant Latin manuscript is known today as The Gotha Missal after its eighteenth-century owners, the German Dukes of Gotha. The volume was originally copied and illuminated in Paris around 1375 – a commission of the Valois king, Charles V “the Wise” (1364-1380), one of the great bibliophiles of the fifteenth century and brother of Dukes Philip the Bold of Burgundy and Jean de Berry. Manuscript missals were not intended for the lay user, but rather for the use of the celebrant at Mass. The present volume was therefore meant to be used by the king’s private chaplain and was probably housed in Charles’s private chapel, possibly in his principle residence, the Palace of the Louvre (demolished in the sixteenth century). The main decorative body of the missal consists of two full-page miniatures comprising the Canon of the Mass and twenty-three small miniatures. The style and high quality of the decoration points to its inclusion withing a select group of manuscripts accepted today as from the hand of Jean Bondol. Bondol was active at the court of Charles V from 1368 until 1381 where he headed the court workshop and also served as the king’s valet de chambre. The blind-tooled leather binding dates to the fifteenth century. Size: Codex: 27.1 x 19.5 cm (10 11/16 x 7 11/16 in.) Medium: ink, tempera, and gold on vellum; blind-tooled leather binding

https://clevelandart.org/art/1962.287.56.b