Cache StarHouse

Astronomy. Music. Queerstake.

[apod]

2026 June 8

Comet R3 PanSTARRS Through Time Image Credit & Copyright: Jakub Kuřák & Martin Mašek (FZU of the Czech Academy of Sciences)

Explanation: What happens to a comet as it leaves our inner Solar System? Now, the arrival of a comet into the inner Solar System is typically heralded with great fanfare and high hopes that the comet will become bright and photogenic. But on the way out, the comet’s nucleus is less warmed by the Sun, less gas and dust are expelled, the bright coma around the nucleus shrinks and fades, and the tail length drops off. Many comets will then return to the outer Solar System and only return in hundreds or thousands of years. In contrast, some comets – like Comet C/2025 R3 (PanSTARRS) – receive a gravitational kick from the planets and so will never return. Pictured, Comet R3 PanSTARRs was imaged deeply many nights in early to mid-May near Cerro Paranal in Chile. Later images appear closer to the top and clearly show the shrinking ion tail.

∞ Source: apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap260608.html

[apod]

2026 June 7

Jupiter and Venus from Earth Image Credit & Copyright: Marek Nikodem (PPSAE)

Explanation: It was visible around the world. The sunset conjunction of Jupiter (left) and Venus (right) in 2012 was visible almost no matter where you lived on Earth. Anyone on our planet with a clear western horizon at sunset could see them. That year, a creative photographer traveled away from the town lights of Szubin, Poland to photograph a near closest approach of the two planets. The bright planets were then separated by only three degrees and his daughter struck a humorous pose. A faint red sunset still glowed in the background. Jupiter and Venus are together again this week after sunset, passing within a degree of each other about two days from today.

∞ Source: apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap260607.html

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[stealingpotatoes]

do you ever think about how much of the original trilogy artoo spent silently watching the drama go down with popcorn

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[apod]

2026 June 4

A Planetary Nebula with Cosmic Buckyballs Image Credit: NASA/ESA/CSA/J. Cami (Western University); Image Processing: K. Beecroft Text: Jan Cami (Western University) & Cecilia Chirenti (NASA GSFC, UMCP, CRESST II)

Explanation: What is happening inside this unusual nebula? Planetary nebula Tc 1, captured here in exquisite detail by the James Webb Space Telescope, is the celestial site where buckyballs were first identified in 2010. Buckminsterfullerene — as buckyballs are officially called — is a molecule with 60 carbon atoms (C60) arranged in the shape of a soccer ball. The molecule is named for architect Buckminster Fuller because of its resemblance to the geodesic dome he helped popularize. Webb’s new data reveal where the C60 molecules live in this nebula, and the geometry is striking: they populate a thin spherical shell around the central star, visible here as the bright edge of the nebula’s glowing orange central region. Look closely near the nebula’s heart and a more perplexing feature emerges: a delicate structure shaped uncannily like an upside-down question mark, fitting punctuation for the many questions this nebula still poses.

∞ Source: apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap260604.html

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[apod]

2026 June 10

The Eagle Nebula and Friends Image Credit & Copyright: Emmanuel Delgadillo Text: Keighley Rockcliffe (NASA GSFC, UMBC CSST, CRESST II)

Explanation: What looks as if it is going to swallow the great Pillars of Creation? The Eagle Nebula (M16) is not a bird, a plane, or Superman. M16 is actually a combination of several celestial objects. NGC 6611 is the young star cluster that appears to peak out beneath the Eagle’s “wings�. The ultraviolet light from these stars ionizes the surrounding gas, creating the emission nebula IC 4703. The Stellar Spire is seen reaching towards the Pillars of Creation from the left. Both are structures of cold gas and dust that are optimal for star formation. Some astronomers previously thought the Pillars of Creation had been evaporated away by a supernova. Because M16 is 6,000 light years away, we would not be able to see the Pillars’ destruction for thousands more years. However, there is no conclusive evidence of the theorized supernova, so the Pillars of Creation will likely continue to create stars for millions of years.

∞ Source: apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap260610.html

[windwardstar]

"Death before detransition" as a rallying cry may feel good to repeat.

But ultimately I don't think it's helpful. The people who want you to detransition don't want you to exist. A dead trans person accomplishes their goals just fine.

Our goal is to survive. By any means necessary. Some people that will mean detransitioning for safety. It's soul crushing, but one day you'll have the opportunity to be yourself and you have to be here for it. Some people will have to go or remain stealth, severing any ties with their transness for their own safety. Two closets across the hall from each other each with their own challenges. But there is safety in the closet and you can survive in there despite the challenges.

Your only responsibility is to survive.

There are going to be visible trans people. People who can't or won't detransition for their own reasons. Or who have enough safety that they don't need to. Some who won't survive if they detransition and some who are staying visible so that they can be seen. To remind every we are here.

Fuck death. Your only goal is to survive by any means necessary. Your existence is resistance enough.

[windwardstar]

#we don't need more voices telling trans people to die # we need more voices telling them to live #so consider this me running through the hall telling everyone to live that one day we will get to stand in the sun #but you have to be alive to make it there

It was right those are good tags. I'm putting them in the post.

Existence is resistance. Survive by any means necessary.

[lilies--lament]

i went to do baptisms by myself for the first time and it was a friday morning so i was the only person there. the workers apologized and said they'd try to find a priest to baptize me. i really didn't mind because i was having a nice time sitting in the chapel reading mosiah haha.

but i was kind of thinking, wow! im waiting in uncertainty because i need someone else to come and help me with this. i can't do it on my own, and i am just hoping that someone happens to come in out of the goodness of their heart so i can be baptized. it was a really small scale experience, I'd say at maximum I was waiting 15 minutes or so, but it reminded me that we come in and do work for people who have had to wait to have this opportunity. they couldn't be who they want to be or go where they want to go if i wasnt here to step in. i just think temple work is such a blessing for us as a community; it connects us across the veil in really unique and tangible ways

[goldcrescent]

I also think that the strength gap is at least partially manufactured women would in fact be stronger overall if little girls were encouraged to do physically taxing games and activities and eat their fill while they’re growing vs having to constantly diet and be sedentary indoors (or god forbid do intense cardio while under-eating). The amount of adult women honestly afraid to lift weights bc they think they’ll get bulky as though bulking isn’t a full time job that athletes have to spend all their time on and anyone on earth gets shredded from just using their adult muscles for their intended purpose, girl your bone density 🥀

[demonicputto]

Mii spam again

Aziraphale doing some pride parade ballet while Mike plays guitar. As one does.

Working on his recipe blog.

More of a diner than the Ritz, but it’s the only restaurant in town so it will have to do.

Steve and Jack meet, revealing my apparent personal stereotype of chill, blond drummers.

Although Brian still hasn’t moved into the Them house, the four of them do constantly hang out everywhere. It brings me joy.

He’s fighting a lamp post.

Aziraphale decided to cheer him up with some flirtatious hip swinging.

The Coven girls are getting older and starting to express themselves differently.

Hanging out and listening to their own album.

Talking architecture with his husband? A great day for Atiku.

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[heycallmered]

people will really come into kink spaces and say you can't forcefem women like there wasn't a feature length movie about an elderly gay man forcefemming a woman as part of scheme to thwart an elaborate assassination attempt before the killer even determined their target

[llama2237]

What... What movie is this.

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[heycallmered]

ain't no way in hell this post even breaks 500

[marmoset-marmoset]

i was trying so hard to remember the nonexistent assassination subplot in My Fair Lady

[parkchanwoohoo]

This kid is so fucking good holy shit. I love how into it the audience is, too