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MY OWN THOUGHTS by Helena Minginowicz (Polish, b. 1984)
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Macro photographs of butterfly and moth wings
Yuri Gagarin, the hobbyist photographer, at home with his wife.
Yuri Gagarin being identified only as an amateur photographer and not literally the first human in space has me on the floor
This is a good reminder that there is a lot of texture and complexity to people; every human contains lots of aspects that would be completely unrelated if not for the fact that the same person experiences them. It’s easy to forget this, and compress the people you meet into a caricature; even celebrities usually end up being famous for one thing alone. But even something as glorious as the first space travel by a living human does not fully encompass a life.
This, too, is Yuri.
He can't keep getting away with this 😮💨😮💨😮💨😮💨
If people don't stop suggesting this stuff he's going to accidentally become a wizard
Mission Specialist Christina Koch and Commander Reid Wiseman look back at the planet they set off from in pursuit of taking one giant leap forward towards the Moon.
Luna and Solis Sickles by Omega Artworks
Fungi from soil samples
Smart woman next to an unbelievable achievement is a picture niche that will never get old
Then you’re gonna love this photo of Annie Jump Canon.
Working at Harvard in the late 1800’s and early 1900’s as a “Computer”, Annie Jump Cannon cataloged stars using their spectra from photographic plates, in an effort to understand the mysteries and peculiarities of stellar spectra.
This was hard, detailed, nuanced work. By 1889, three years into her work, she had classified over 1,000 stars. By 1913, she could classify 200 stars an hour. She could classify three stars a minute, just by sight. Using a magnifying glass, she could classify stars down to 9th magnitude, 16 times fainter than the human eye can see. And she did this all with exceptional accuracy.
Over the course of her career, she personally classified more than 350,000 stars, accounting for a mind-boggling 98% of all contemporary stellar spectra classifications, a feat that wouldn’t be bested until the 1990’s with automated digital sky surveys.
Cannon used these classifications to develop the Harvard spectral classification system (O–B–A–F–G–K–M), organizing stars by surface temperature and physical properties.
It is hard to overstate just how foundational her work was to modern astronomy and astrophysics. Her classifications have enabled more than a century of breakthroughs in stellar structure and evolution, including the understanding of how stars change over time and how temperature, luminosity, and composition are related. The system underpins the Hertzsprung–Russell (HR) diagram, one of the most important tools in astrophysics, and remains embedded in modern research, from stellar population studies to galaxy evolution.
The immense scale of her work was itself a massive contribution to astronomy. For comparison, before Cannon, star catalogs contained between 600 and 4,000 stars. Her work single-handedly proved that large-scale stellar classification was both feasible and scientifically valuable. She helped establish systematic star catalogs as a core method of modern astronomy and laid the groundwork for astrophysical research on stellar structure, evolution, and populations that continues today.
Let’s turn from space research to microbiology!
This is microbiologist Elizabeth Lee Hazen (left) and chemist Rachel Brown (right), who, in 1950, discovered nystatin, the first known antifungal and still a first-line treatment for certain fungal diseases such as candida overgrowth (thrush, vaginal yeast infections, and more). It’s comparable to the antibiotic penicillin in importance.
Hanzen provided the biological know how. Her logic was, if a fungus (penicillin) was an effective anti-bacterial agent, might some bacteria have anti-fungal properties? Turns out she had the right idea! Brown provided the chemical know-how, isolating antifungal agents produced by bacteria that Hanzen sourced. They struck gold with the bacteria Streptomyces noursei, named after the owner of the farm where Hanzen found it.