im breaking gender roles by being the first girl to go to jupiter to get more stupider
My sophomore year English teacher, appalled: "None of you read the news?!"
The news:
Some of these astronauts will walk on the Moon. @nasa @canadianspaceagency @nasaartemis https://www.instagram.com/p/Chw4kX_uHHn/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=
John Anderson’s books are weird because they’re simultaneously:
“This book talks to you! It wants you to have fun while learning advanced aerodynamic theory!”
And:
“The author will face God and walk backwards into hell before using a first-person singular pronoun.”
John Anderson is going to have to do a lot more than occasionally be mildly whimsical if he's going to win me over, ESPECIALLY if he continues to acknowledge slugs as a valid and real unit of measurement.
I see you, John. I see through your ruse.
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Love the way this is worded.
Feel like pure shit just want my species on one ball again
This reminds me of the photo with everyone in existence except one person in it. Hang on
Here it is
That’s not exactly true. Earth gains 40,000 to 50,000 metric tons each year from meteorites. That’s not much compared to the mass of Earth, but it means at least a few atoms in your body came from space during your lifetime.
Eugene Kranz (born 17 August 1933) at his post at NASA’s Mission Control
We make fun of people in fantasy settings who rush to incorporate mysterious unknown black magic into massive projects and then have something go wrong an awful lot considering that we ourselves don’t completely understand how airplane wings work even with our best computer simulations.
(Credit to NASA) Happy birthday Neil!
These zombie game ads on Tumblr are amazing. Watching the busty blonde lady in the red dress fucking deck a guy with one punch and then instantly cultivate a bunch of weed in a basement during a zombie apocalypse? Hell yeah get it girl.
Still not playing the game though.
I wonder if I'll ever make it inside the VAB someday.
Some folks from work got to tour it and go on the roof. They showed me pictures. It looks absolutely insane.
I don't know that I'll ever get the same opportunity, but a girl can hope.
First images from the James Webb Space Telescope:
See the Universe in a New Way with the Webb Space Telescope's First Images
Are you ready to see unprecedented, detailed views of the universe from the James Webb Space Telescope, the largest and most powerful space observatory ever made? Scroll down to see the first full-color images and data from Webb. Unfold the universe with us. ✨
Carina Nebula
This landscape of “mountains” and “valleys” speckled with glittering stars, called the Cosmic Cliffs, is the edge of the star-birthing Carina Nebula. Usually, the early phases of star formation are difficult to capture, but Webb can peer through cosmic dust—thanks to its extreme sensitivity, spatial resolution, and imaging capability. Protostellar jets clearly shoot out from some of these young stars in this new image.
Southern Ring Nebula
The Southern Ring Nebula is a planetary nebula: it’s an expanding cloud of gas and dust surrounding a dying star. In this new image, the nebula’s second, dimmer star is brought into full view, as well as the gas and dust it’s throwing out around it. (The brighter star is in its own stage of stellar evolution and will probably eject its own planetary nebula in the future.) These kinds of details will help us better understand how stars evolve and transform their environments. Finally, you might notice points of light in the background. Those aren’t stars—they’re distant galaxies.
Stephan’s Quintet
Stephan’s Quintet, a visual grouping of five galaxies near each other, was discovered in 1877 and is best known for being prominently featured in the holiday classic, “It’s a Wonderful Life.” This new image brings the galaxy group from the silver screen to your screen in an enormous mosaic that is Webb’s largest image to date. The mosaic covers about one-fifth of the Moon’s diameter; it contains over 150 million pixels and is constructed from almost 1,000 separate image files. Never-before-seen details are on display: sparkling clusters of millions of young stars, fresh star births, sweeping tails of gas, dust and stars, and huge shock waves paint a dramatic picture of galactic interactions.
WASP-96 b
WASP-96 b is a giant, mostly gas planet outside our solar system, discovered in 2014. Webb’s Near-Infrared Imager and Slitless Spectrograph (NIRISS) measured light from the WASP-96 system as the planet moved across the star. The light curve confirmed previous observations, but the transmission spectrum revealed new properties of the planet: an unambiguous signature of water, indications of haze, and evidence of clouds in the atmosphere. This discovery marks a giant leap forward in the quest to find potentially habitable planets beyond Earth.
Webb's First Deep Field
This image of galaxy cluster SMACS 0723, known as Webb’s First Deep Field, looks 4.6 billion years into the past. Looking at infrared wavelengths beyond Hubble’s deepest fields, Webb’s sharp near-infrared view reveals thousands of galaxies—including the faintest objects ever observed in the infrared—in the most detailed view of the early universe to date. We can now see tiny, faint structures we’ve never seen before, like star clusters and diffuse features and soon, we’ll begin to learn more about the galaxies’ masses, ages, histories, and compositions.
These images and data are just the beginning of what the observatory will find. It will study every phase in the history of our Universe, ranging from the first luminous glows after the Big Bang, to the formation of solar systems capable of supporting life on planets like Earth, to the evolution of our own Solar System.
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Credits: NASA, ESA, CSA, and STScI
🚨BREAKING NEWS🚨 From @nasawebb - the list of images for #JWST!!
✨ SMACS 0723: cluster of galaxies 🟤 WASP-96b: exoplanet ✨ Southern Ring Nebula: A bubble-shaped nebula inside the constellation Vela ✨ Carina Nebula: a massive nebula inside the Carina constellation ✨ Stevens Quintet: five galaxies in the Pegasus constellation
LET’S GOOOOOOOO #UnfoldTheUniverse https://www.instagram.com/p/CfwT9Czu4X7/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=
if wired earphones have a million fans i am one of them. if wired earphones have ten fans i am one of then. if wired earphones have one fan i am that fan. so on and so forth i can’t remember the rest of this meme
Happy Father’s Day to all the space dads out there!
If you could choose a song for a hypothetical future Voyager Golden Record successor, what would you pick?
oh my god. you saw the ad and thought WHAT???? im so sorry for the panic, they charged us by the letter!!! no, no, timmy’s thirteen now, we found the baby shoes in an old gift bag in the garage