My Fantasy for Insanity

Small town girl with big city dreams, i believe in fairy tales and true love, treating people with kindness, drawing, painting, art, science, music, singing, playing piano and ukulele.

[theofficialastronomy101]

NGC Nebula

[nasa]

This cosmic spiral is coming out of its shell!

What you’re looking at here is Apep, a trio of stars with distinct shells of dust swirling around them. This image was taken by our James Webb Space Telescope, and is the crispest view we have of the star system to date.

Named for the Egyptian god of chaos, the stars in this system are anything but peaceful and tranquil. Two of the three stars are part of a rare class of massive, evolved, luminous stars. That pair creates the shells as they orbit each other, flinging out dust at up to 2,000 miles per second. The third star is a massive supergiant with a much wider orbit, and the shock of its solar wind slices holes in these shells.

Before now, scientists had only been able to see one shell around Apep, despite hypothesizing the presence of more. But with the help of Webb’s keen eye, we have confirmed that Apep is layered like a cosmic onion, with four distinct shells now visible.

Learn more about Apep and see an animated visualization of the shells here.

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[weepingwidar]

Rebecca Storm (Canadian, 1987) - Perfect Strangers (2025)

[jameswebb-discoveries]

James Webb just dropped what might be the single most beautiful image of 2025: Herbig-Haro 49/50 glowing like a cosmic lava lamp while a perfect spiral galaxy casually photobombs the tip?! It looks like the universe hand-painted a masterpiece and said “here, hold my stardust.” This baby star is literally spitting out supersonic jets that slam into gas clouds and light them up in fiery orange waves… and Webb caught every ripple, every shockwave, every secret. I’ve stared at this for 20 minutes straight and I’m still ascending. Zoom in on the full-res + all the mind-blowing science here → https://www.jameswebbdiscovery.com/discoveries/james-webb-telescope-captures-herbig-haro-4950-in-stunning-detail And if this just awakened something primal in you and now you NEED to see nebulae and galaxies with your own eyes… I got you. Take this 60-second quiz and find the telescope that was literally made for you: https://www.telescopeadvisor.com/telescope-finder-tool.php (seriously, some of you are sleeping on how insane amateur astrophotography is in 2025) reblog to drag your entire dash into the void with me ♡

[animentality]

[beedallo]

Monkey fuck

[cervine-arctophile]

Yoshitoshi Kanemaki Memento Mori Paint on Camphor wood H215×W48×D97 2013

[nobrashfestivity]

Edvard Munch, The Women and the Skeleton, 1896

[jackbroadway]

“How was your dinner party?” 🥃📦

[dispatchesfromtheclasswar]

[nobrashfestivity]

Louise Bourgeois

I Have Been to Hell and Back

Fabric

[resqectable]

“People grow when they are loved well. If you want to help others heal, love them without an agenda.”

— Mike McHargue

[resqectable]

“Tell me and I forget. Teach me and I remember. Involve me and I learn.”

— Benjamin Franklin

[financeprincess]

Sorry to break it to you but you literally have to face your fears and slaughter them. Otherwise you will live a small life that you do not want. You literally have to view your biggest fears and attack them head on. You have to fall into the abyss to find your way out. The easy path does not exist. There is no get out of jail free card. You have to allow yourself to die a spiritual death over and over again in order to reinvent yourself into the person you are actually supposed to be. And you have to be painfully honest with yourself and the people around you. It’s horrible but it’s truly the only way.

[the-wolf-and-moon]

NGC 2024, Flame Nebula

[world-beauty]

The Helix Nebula from CFHT

Credits: CFHT, Coelum, MegaCam, J.-C. Cuillandre, CFHT, G. A. Anselmi, Coelum

[the-wolf-and-moon]

M16, Eagle