#supergiants

[colorpicked-pride-flags-jwst]

Pansexual flag colorpicked from galaxy NGC 604, a hotbed of massive, young stars

[bekkomi]

‧͙⁺˚*･༓☾　𝔐𝔬𝔱𝔥𝔢𝔯 𝔬𝔣 𝔱𝔥𝔢 𝔑𝔦𝔤𝔥𝔱 𝔞𝔫𝔡 𝔪𝔬𝔯𝔢　☽༓･*˚⁺‧͙

[sandeater101]

More daily dose of Dionysus the drunken dumbass, featuring zag about to snap!

[tprika]

[startswithabang]

The Scientific Story Of How Each Element Was Made

“Neutron star mergers create the greatest heavy element abundances of all, including gold, mercury, and platinum. Meanwhile, cosmic rays blast nuclei apart, creating the Universe's lithium, beryllium, and boron. Finally, the heaviest, unstable elements are made in terrestrial laboratories. The result is the rich, diverse Universe we inhabit today.”

When the Big Bang first occurred, the Universe was filled with all the various particles and antiparticles making up the Standard Model, and perhaps still others yet to be discovered. But missing from the list were protons, neutrons, or any of the atomic nuclei key to the life-giving elements in our Universe today. Yet the Universe expanded, cooled, antimatter annihilated away, and the first elements began to take shape. After billions of years of cosmic evolution, we arrived at a Universe recognizable today: full of stars, planets, and the full complement of elements populating the periodic table. More than 100 elements are known today, 91 of which are found to occur naturally on Earth. Some were formed in the Big Bang, others were formed in stars, still others were formed in violent cosmic cataclysms or collisions. Yet every one has an origin whose story is now known, giving rise to all we interact with today.

Come get the full story behind how all the elements were made in some fantastic pictures, visuals, and no more than 200 words on this edition of Mostly Mute Monday!

[some-sort-of-humanoid-lifeform]

I really love Hades 2 and the original. But H1 did have a magic to it for me that Hades 2 is lacking but I’m not talking about story I found both beautiful and engaging in different ways.

No, when I first played Hades 1, I sucked at it and I sucked HARD. And that made my struggle map on to Zagreus’ in a way that didn’t happen in Hades 2 because I brought to my first Hades 2 play-through the experience and skill from Hades 1. It was just a matter of readjusting to an updated combat system and new move sets, instead of learning from scratch. So Melinoe felt instantly more competent to me compared to Zagreus because *I* was more competent.

And, narratively, that makes some sense since she’s spent her life training for this mission and Zag was basically just: “Fuck you, dad” one day spontaneously after having had enough but still. As Melinoe doubts her skill and expresses uncertainty… I wonder if those moments would have hit harder for me if I hadn’t played the first game first, if I were struggling myself to the same degree that I struggled when I learned Hades 1?

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I FINALLY BEAT HADES YALL