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sydnastyf

it’s been a while

since I’ve genuinely cared enough about myself to see where my character will take me in this world. it’s been a really long time since i’ve actually talked to a friend about who i am, what i want from myself, what i want to give to the world. meaningful conversation has been so rare to me lately and today, talking about a lot of things, i just feel really good about my friends and the expectations i’ve set for myself. i’m so stressed about money and school but i feel so positively about who i am as a person that it makes coping so much easier. i love myself and the friends who made me feel like that was possible.

no negative feelings towards the people who haven’t helped me evolve.... i just now know where to keep you...

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Twinkling stars are far more desirable to poets and romantics than to astronomers. Even in the near-pristine seeing conditions over Chile, home to ESO’s fleet of world-class telescopes, turbulence in Earth’s atmosphere causes stars to twinkle, blurring our view of the night sky.

These four laser beams are specially designed to combat this turbulence. The intense orange beams dominating this image originate from the 4 Laser Guide Star Facility, a state-of-the-art component of the Adaptive Optics Facility of ESO’s Very Large Telescope (VLT). Each beam is some 4000 times more powerful than a standard laser pointer! Each creates an artificial guide star by exciting sodium atoms high in the Earth’s upper atmosphere and causing them to glow.

Creating artificial guide stars allows astronomers to measure and correct for atmospheric distortion, by adjusting and calibrating the settings of their observing equipment to be as accurate as possible for that particular area of sky. This gives the VLT a crystal-clear view of the cosmos, so it can capture the wonders of the Universe in stunning detail.

The first image was made using a drone flying over the VLT by the ESO Photographic Ambassador, Gerhard Hüdepohl.

Source: eso.org

Image credit: ESO/G. Hüdepohl, Babak Tafreshi, Mark McCaughrean

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From Hot to Hottest : This sequence of images shows the Sun from its surface to its upper atmosphere all taken at about the same time on Oct. 27, 2017. (via NASA)