Celestial kin

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[yuumei-art]

It's Friday the 13th! Time to celebrate the unlucky voids in all their glory~ Here is a collection of Space Cat that I've painted over the years. What shenanigans will he get up to next?

[heylsgowt]

[mollybeenoel]

Source: poeticalphotos

[lucidloving]

D. Alan Holmes, Enlightenment // Signet Amenti // @cryptonature // Alan Wilsom Watts // Evan M. Cohen, "Oceans" // Nikita Gill // @pauladoodles // Julian Gough, "Minecraft End Poem" // Sleeping At Last—Saturn

[landsccape]

[petrichara]

‘Love is the one thing that we’re capable of perceiving that transcends dimensions of time and space.’

“Eulogy from a Physicist” by Aaron Freeman, with quotes from Interstellar by Christopher Nolan, and images from NASA, Interstellar, Getty, Petrichara, and Reuters.

1- NASA: GOODS-South.

2- NASA: NGC 1850.

3- NASA: Iberian Peninsula.

4- Christopher Nolan: Interstellar.

5- NASA: From the Earth to the Moon.

6- Hannah La Folette Ryan: Subway Hands.

7- Adams Evans: Heart Nebula.

8- NASA: Exploring the Antennae.

9- NASA: Crescent Moon from the International Space Station.

10- Petrichara.

11- Getty Images.

12- NASA: SMACS 0723.

13- Reuters

[abluerowan]

So the James Webb telescope just took a picture of a galaxy that is 29 million light years away.

If that wasn't cool enough NASA decided to peel away all the cosmic dust in order to see the bones of the Galaxy itself.

AND IT'S BREATHTAKING

[remnantglow]

this is so cool are u guys seeing this!!!!!

[whateeveeer]

Please retire the "we are made of stardust" phrase I am so tired of it

[bluwubewwy]

Stars are made of flesh

[whateeveeer]

I change my mind bring back the original phrase

[headspace-hotel]

If I remember correctly, elements heavier than iron are only created when a star dies.

This is interesting because 1) it places a lower bound on when life can evolve, and when life is most likely to evolve, assuming any of a number of certain chemical compositions are necessary and 2) it means that a significant portion of the matter around us was forged by the death of a star.

Stars, when they die, can create new elements and I think that's cool as fuck.

[headspace-hotel]

I looked it up, actually it's like this:

Helium and Hydrogen were created by the Big Bang.

Elements from Helium up to Iron are created by stars through nuclear fusion during their lifetimes (In a process called Stellar Nucleosynthesis)

And elements heavier than iron cannot be created except by Supernova Nucleosynthesis, by the collapse and death of a star, and elements from silicon through iron still are mainly created by Supernova Nucleosynthesis, since stars big enough to create them by fusion in life are pretty rare

The stardust makes you alive! It's neat.

[artisticlicense-personal]

“We are made of star corpses”

[foone]

It's not even star corpses. The corpses hang onto all their elements or turn into a black hole.

We're made of the explosions, all the bits that get blown off in a supernova.

We're the bloodstains of stars.

[the-wolf-and-moon]

Within Wolf’s Cave

[spacewonder19]

Closest star cluster to the Sun: The Hyades

[hellolovelyscientist]

Is Firefox OK?

Mozilla’s privacy-heavy browser is flatlining. What it does next is crucial for the future of the web.

[weirdlylyricalnotes]

Despite some of its misses, Firefox still matters. Mozilla is pushing companies to be more private, and its key product is different at its core. The browser market is dominated by Google’s Chromium codebase and its underlying browser engine, Blink, the component that turns code into visual web pages. Microsoft’s Edge Browser, Brave, Vivaldi, and Opera all use adapted versions of Chromium. Apple makes developers use its WebKit browser engine on iOS. Other than that, Firefox’s Gecko browser engine is the only alternative in existence.

“This market needs variety,” Willemsen says. If Firefox diminishes further, there’ll be less competition for Chrome. “We need that difference for open internet standards, for the sake of preventing monopolies,” Willemsen says. Others agree. Everyone we spoke with for this story—inside and outside of Mozilla—says having Firefox flourish makes the web a better place. The trick is figuring out how to get there.

[swholli]

Download and start using Firefox if you don’t already, I made the switch back to Firefox after not using it for years and being a chrome person until 2020 and have never regretted it

[unsureprincess]

Link to download Firefox. Link to article detailing how to import bookmarks/other data (including saved passwords!) from any browser (this article also includes a link specifically for more details about importing from IE/Edge or Chrome). Link to article detailing specifically how to switch from Chrome to Firefox making it incredibly easy for you!!

It’s absolutely worth it and can be done in just a few minutes and you can get set back up just how you were on your former browser.

[tiggymalvern]

Firefox is the only major browser designed for users, not for marketing, advertisers and profit. Support the good guys of the web!

[akindplace]

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[the-wolf-and-moon]

Veil Nebula

[neozlicembe]

[theoptia]

Sophokles, from Elektra; translated by Anne Carson in An Oresteia

Text ID: Do I not live? Badly, I know, but I live.

[edwardsaidpdf]

gentle earth // retroluvv // andrea gibson, I sing the body electric; especially when my power is out