#space time

[dailydavejading]

D142

[thoughtportal]

general relativity for babies

[spacejamsdj]

[dirksawesomesprites]

trying to master the homestuck style

i wanted to draw beach davejade so figured id try to make a panel from scratch TuT

+ the timelapse because im rlly proud of this :33

i might make this into a series of trying to perfectly recreate homestucks style idk

[mindblowingscience]

Neutron star 'mountains' would cause ripples in space-time

Collapsed dead stars, known as neutron stars, are a trillion times denser than lead, and their surface features are largely unknown. Nuclear

Collapsed dead stars, known as neutron stars, are a trillion times denser than lead, and their surface features are largely unknown. Nuclear theorists have explored mountain building mechanisms active on the moons and planets in our solar system. Some of these mechanisms suggest that neutron stars are likely to have mountains. Neutron star "mountains" would be much more massive than any on Earth—so massive that gravity just from these mountains could produce small oscillations, or ripples, in the fabric of space and time. Mountains, or non-axisymmetric deformations of rotating neutron stars, efficiently radiate gravitational waves. In a study published in the journal Physical Review D, nuclear theorists at Indiana University consider analogies between neutron star mountains and surface features of solar system bodies.

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[noosphe-re]

The space that this male fiddler crab (a chiral object) lives in, a Möbius strip, is non-orientable. Note that the fiddler crab flips to being its own mirror image with every complete circulation (Non-orientable wormhole)

[interstellarwear]

Lost in the glitter of a cosmic jewelry box.

This is Terzan 1, a globular cluster located about 22,000 light-years away in the constellation Scorpius. Captured by the Hubble Space Telescope, this dense swarm of stars is one of the closest clusters to the Milky Way’s busy center.

While some of these stars look like tiny sparks, they are actually ancient suns held together by their own gravity. Talk about a powerhouse neighborhood!