#sharpless 249

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feel free to keep scrolling, i'm sorry

months ago [almost half a year] when i started cutting, i did my best to hide it from my family. because i knew they would turn it into some suffering i've inflicted on them. a few weeks ago, my mother said [with annoyance, while telling me to do her work], "are you mentally insane? when will you stop cutting?" i didn't know what to say [like do you think your child who was diagnosed with clinical depression years ago, who didn't get treatment because you don't believe in depression, who hasn't left the house in a year, doesn't interact with anyone, doesn't eat properly, doesn't shower or change clothes regularly, avoids you as much as possible, cries every other night, is mentally stable?] i know i'm venting but just a while ago, she said again [accusingly] "why are you torturing us? what was our sin? that we gave you importance? even after all the loss you caused us, we haven't said anything to you [they have. many many times]" i didn't reply because there was no point. there is nothing i could have said that i haven't already, tens of times. even when i'm screaming and falling apart [have been falling apart for as long as i can remember], i have no right to my pain. it all belongs to them. anyway, here are some beautiful photographs to get lost into:

© Katelyn Beecroft

© Matt Anderson Photography/Getty Images

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© SinghaphanAllB/Getty Images

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Sharpless 249 (left) and the Jellyfish Nebula (right)

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Sharpless 249 and the Jellyfish Nebula

Normally faint and elusive, the Jellyfish Nebula is caught in this alluring telescopic field of view. The entire scene is a two panel mosaic constructed using narrowband image data, with emission from sulfur, hydrogen and oxygen atoms shown in red, green and blue hues. It's anchored right and left by two bright stars, Mu and Eta Geminorum, at the foot of the celestial twin. The Jellyfish Nebula itself is right of center, the brighter arcing ridge of emission with dangling tentacles. In fact, the cosmic jellyfish is part of bubble-shaped supernova remnant IC 443, the expanding debris cloud from a massive star that exploded. Light from the explosion first reached planet Earth over 30,000 years ago. Like its cousin in astrophysical waters the Crab Nebula supernova remnant, the Jellyfish Nebula is known to harbor a neutron star, the remnant of the collapsed stellar core.  An emission nebula cataloged as Sharpless 249 fills the field at the upper left. The Jellyfish Nebula is about 5,000 light-years away. At that distance, this image would be about 300 light-years across. Credit: Data - Steve Milne & Barry Wilson, Processing - Steve Milne

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Sharpless 249 and the Jellyfish Nebula

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(NASA)  Sharpless 249 and the Jellyfish Nebula Image

Credit & Copyright: Eric Coles

Normally faint and elusive, the Jellyfish Nebula is caught in this alluring telescopic mosaic. The scene is anchored below by bright star Eta Geminorum, at the foot of the celestial twin, while the Jellyfish Nebula is the brighter arcing ridge of emission with tentacles dangling below and left of center. In fact, the cosmic jellyfish is part of bubble-shaped supernova remnant IC 443, the expanding debris cloud from a massive star that exploded. Light from the explosion first reached planet Earth over 30,000 years ago. Like its cousin in astrophysical waters the Crab Nebula supernova remnant, the Jellyfish Nebula is known to harbor a neutron star, the remnant of the collapsed stellar core. An emission nebula cataloged as Sharpless 249 fills the field at the upper right. The Jellyfish Nebula is about 5,000 light-years away. At that distance, this narrowband composite image presented in the Hubble Palette would be about 300 light-years across.

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Sharpless 249 (left) and the Jellyfish Nebula (right)

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Sharpless 249 and the Jellyfish Nebula 

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Sharpless 249 and the Jellyfish Nebula Image Credit & Copyright: Eric Coles