but the end's already here.

[robotpoppa]

it hurts

[spacettf]

NGC3576 (right) and NGC3603 (left) by Astroshed on Flickr.

[astronomicalwonders]

Comet Lovejoy - Seen from the International Space Station

Comet Lovejoy, formally designated C/2011 W3 (Lovejoy), is a long-period comet and Kreutz Sungrazer. It was discovered in November 2011 by Australian amateur astronomer Terry Lovejoy. The comet’s perihelion (point of of closest distance to the sun) took it through the Sun’s corona on 16 December 2011, after which it emerged intact, though greatly impacted by the event

Credit: NASA/Astronaught Dan Burbank

[9prodlums]

Polygons measuring spoon

[weareallstarstuff]

Orion Nebula

[ohstarstuff]

N44C is the designation for a fascinating region of ionized hydrogen gas surrounding an association of young stars in the Large Magellanic Cloud, a nearby, small companion galaxy to the Milky Way visible from the Southern Hemisphere. It stretches over an expanse of space that would take 125 years to cross if you were traveling at light-speed.

N44C is peculiar because the star mainly responsible for illuminating the nebula is unusually hot. The most massive stars, ranging from 10-50 times more massive than the Sun, have maximum temperatures of 30,000 to 50,000 degrees Kelvin. The star illuminating N44C appears to be significantly hotter, with a temperature of about 75,000 degrees Kelvin!

Ideas proposed to explain this unusually high temperature include the possibility of a neutron star or black hole that intermittently produces X-rays but is now “switched off.”

Credit: NASA and the Hubble Heritage Team (STScI/AURA) Acknowledgment: D. Garnett (University of Arizona)

[yyehji]

NightValeRadio

[blondeisawesome]

A wave viewed from underwater

[spacettf]

哈伯色版本的北美及鵜鶘星雲 / NGC7000/IC5070/IC5067 in HST Palette by tak530 on Flickr.

[bushidocaps]

[scienceisbeauty]

Composite image (X-ray & optical) of the Rosette nebula, located about 5,000 light years from Earth. More shocking that the one I posted here two years ago.

Source: Rosette Nebula: The Heart of a Rose (Chandra X-ray Center)

[scienceisbeauty]

Smith Chart visual representation of interaction between resistive and reactive components.

(Via Wikimedia Commons)

[astronomicalwonders]

An Infrared view of the Orion Nebula

"This wide-field view of the Orion Nebula (Messier 42), lying about 1350 light-years from Earth, was taken with the VISTA infrared survey telescope at ESO’s Paranal Observatory in Chile.The new telescope’s huge field of view allows the whole nebula and its surroundings to be imaged in a single picture and its infrared vision also means that it can peer deep into the normally hidden dusty regions and reveal the curious antics of the very active young stars buried there."

Credit: VISTA/ESO

[underthesymmetree]

Fibonacci you crazy bastard….

As seen in the solar system (by no ridiculous coincidence), Earth orbits the Sun 8 times in the same period that Venus orbits the Sun 13 times! Drawing a line between Earth & Venus every week results in a spectacular FIVE side symmetry!!

Lets bring up those Fibonacci numbers again: 1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13, 21, 34..

So if we imagine planets with Fibonacci orbits, do they create Fibonacci symmetries?!

You bet!! Depicted here is a:

2 sided symmetry (5 orbits x 3 orbits)

3 sided symmetry (8 orbits x 5 orbits)

5 sided symmetry (13 orbits x 8 orbits) - like Earth & Venus

8 sided symmetry (21 orbits x 13 orbits)

I wonder if relationships like this exist somewhere in the universe….

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[robotlyra]

NOT EVEN JESUS COULD CURE MY BONER FOR ROBOTS

[expressions-of-nature]

Mystical Light of the Underwater World by: Michael Rehbein