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Spring 🌼🌱

#spring #ducks #zoo #sony a7iv #flowers #trees #san diego #sundew #drosera #pato

Spring flowers

#flowers #flower #spring #sony a7iv #Earth Day #griffith park #los angeles

Every once in a while I return to this site and sneak around only liking posts. Thanks to those of you that are always here with new posts no matter when I tune back in. It's a weird comfort.

#im self conscious about liking posts but im sure it goes unnoticed

The southernmost moonrise on June 21st (after sunset) and moonset on June 22nd (at sunrise) from Griffith Observatory.

The Major Lunar Standstill only happens every 18.6 years, but it lasts for a couple of years. The complex, periodic tilting of the moon's orbit causes the most extreme rise and set locations of the moon to exceed that of the extreme solstice sunrises and sunsets. That means the moon rises farther south than the winter solstice sun, and more north than the summer solstice sun every month.

If that's confusing and you want to know more, let me know. If not, I'll just leave these cool pictures. 😎

#moon #astronomy #archaeoastronomy #moonrise #moonset #los angeles #sky #luna #lunar #observations #observatory

Assortment of sunset photos from one of my favorite places.

#astronomy #observatory #sunsets #sunset #observing #los angeles #Sun

seamlessoo

Cabalgata

Help.

I just spent the last few hours feeling like an idiot because I couldn’t figure out how to add two waves with a known phase lead. I had a real episode. There were tears and I thought maybe I’m just dumb and not cut out for physics because I kept getting the wrong answer no matter how many times I put it into my calculator. I checked my method over and over and couldn’t figure out why it was wrong. Hours. I just needed to change my calculator into radian mode instead of degree. I wasted so much time that I probably won’t be sleeping tonight. I shouldn’t be taking two physics classes at once.

#physics #school #stress

apod

2017 February 27

Four Quasar Images Surround a Galaxy Lens Image Credit: ESA/Hubble, NASA, Sherry Suyu et al.

Explanation: An odd thing about the group of lights near the center is that four of them are the same distant quasar. This is because the foreground galaxy – in the center of the quasar images and the featured image – is acting like a choppy gravitational lens. A perhaps even odder thing is that by watching these background quasars flicker, you can estimate the expansion rate of the universe. That is because the flicker timing increases as the expansion rate increases. But to some astronomers, the oddest thing of all is that these multiply imaged quasars indicate a universe that is expanding a bit faster than has been estimated by different methods that apply to the early universe. And that is because … well, no one is sure why. Reasons might include an unexpected distribution of dark matter, some unexpected effect of gravity, or something completely different. Perhaps future observations and analyses of this and similarly lensed quasar images will remove these oddities.

∞ Source: apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap170227.html

tharapguy

awaken,my love

me: oh yea it's been years I'm over it

also me: *was actually irreparably changed to the point that my personality and the way I interact with others and my insecurities are, even today, a direct result of what happened*

#haha