we need to gatekeep space better like no space ISNT for any idiot with a billion dollars it’s for SCIENCE PEOPLE ONLY i am so sick of these goddamn RANDOS going to space. the only people i want in SPACE are NASA and the NASA EQUIVALENTS of OTHER COUNTRIES
king i think it is not fucking sufficient at all. wolftopia or bust
Also Wolftopia is gorgeous by the way
Wolftopia is nearly the size of Saturn and orbits two stars that closely orbit each other!
poetry from ny times
aubrey plaza setting up a computer in a starbucks 2008
Photographer Gunarto Song captured a remarkable photo of a meteor falling “into” a volcano ( Mount Merapi, the most active volcano in Indonesia), and the resulting shot looks like there’s a green beam of light shooting up from the crater. (SOURCE)
to the moon, and back.
Astrophotographer, in Idaho, captures falling meteor fireball.
Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport covers more than 27 square miles (70 sq. km) in Texas — an area larger than the island of Manhattan. It handled 39.3 million travelers in 2020, down from more than 75 million the previous year because of COVID-19. Still, this volume made DFW the fourth-busiest airport in the world that year by passenger traffic.
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Solar System series by Jian Guo. 2016.
Jian Guo is an architect, illustrator and designer who lives and works in Shanghai. He describes his own work as “stained glass-style” art, and enjoys creating fanart - his most popular to date is that of the Lord of the Rings series.
When the Solar System series was first proposed, there was some debate as to whether or not to include Pluto, as it was no longer considered a planet in the traditional sense. However, the series was deemed an homage to the past, Pluto retaining its place by virtue of its established position in classical astronomy.
All images courtesy of the artist.
Southern Pleiades.
Credit: Rafael Compassi
Saturn during sunrise.
*sits down*
dont you think its weird. dont you think its weird that the space race last time was two of the biggest powers in the world. and now its a handful of rich men. dont you think its weird they can afford that. dont you think its bad that rich men can afford the same things as the government.
dont you think its weird that while the world is suffering and poverty is everywhere, where there's wars and climate change and human pain and homelessness. the same month I've watched people die on the news from unbearable heat and unprecedented flooding. that a rich handful of men are going to space, causing more carbon emissions. dont you think its weird that instead of putting their vast amount of money to use for good they're using it to find a way off the planet theyre destroying.
dont you think its really fucking weird.
A Black Hole is an extraordinarily massive, improbably dense knot of spacetime that makes a living swallowing or slinging away any morsel of energy that strays too close to its dark, twisted core. Anyone fortunate (or unfortunate) enough to directly observe one of these beasts in the wild would immediately notice the way its colossal gravitational field warps all of the light from the stars and galaxies behind it, a phenomenon known as gravitational lensing.
Thanks to the power of supercomputers, a curious observer no longer has to venture into outer space to see such a sight. A team of astronomers has released their first simulated images of the lensing effects of not just one, but two black holes, trapped in orbit by each other’s gravity and ultimately doomed to merge as one.
I love your blog and your space asks but please pray tell what's the moon boom that jumpingjacktrash mentioned?
have you ever looked up into the night sky and wondered, why the moon is?
well, you're not alone! scientists and learnéd scholars across the ages have been baffled by our celestial neighbor.
WHY, is our Moon so proportionally fucking huge? (it's more than a quarter the size of the Earth! that's COMPLETELY FUCKING INSANE AND BLOWS EVERY OTHER MOON IN OUR SOLAR SYSTEM OUT OF THE METAPHORICAL WATER)
WHY, is the Moon made up of much of the same materials as the Earth?
and WHY, is Earth's magnetic field so massively overpowered that it can shield the surface from interstellar and solar radiation, allowing life to develop and paving the way for you to even ask these questions in the first place? (that one might not sound related, but I promise you it is so just bear with me)
well, it all comes down to the Theia Impact Hypothesis, or, OPERATION MOON BOOM.
here, we focus on the third planet from the sun, which is, surprisingly, NOT Earth.
not yet.
no, this unnamed rocky world is slightly smaller than Venus, and is formed of mostly-molten rock that's still settling into itself as our nascent solar system sorts itself out.
ENTER STAGE LEFT, THEIA.
Theia is a rocky planetoid about the size of Mars, on a wild and unstable orbit around the Sun that regularly brings it within spitting distance of our unnamed third rock! and today, it will get A Bit Too Close.
the two planets slam into each other with wild disregard for road safety, disintegrating their outer layers into a massive debris field that will take hundreds of millions of years to settle and fusing their planetary cores together into a single rough oblong of molten iron! BAM! WHAPPO!
but settle the debris does, as gravity takes a gentle but firm hold of this huge mess and gradually reshapes it into two familiar faces...
ENTER STAGE RIGHT: EARTH AND MOON.
that's right, you're standing on top of the alchemically-fused corpses of, not one, but TWO planets right now! our newly-reborn Earth and its singular orbiting satellite are formed from the same debris field and share a lot of similar material. and because the Moon was Made, and not a domesticated planetoid that wandered too close and got trapped in the orbit of a larger body, it's just ludicrously HUGE compared to its partner.
and getting back to that magnetic field thing, the whole reason Earth Can Have Big Field Pls is because Theia dumped so much extra iron into the Core that it generates a MUCH more powerful field than our neighboring planets, even the ones that are just slightly smaller than Earth!
the only reason that life can exist at all is because Theia took one for the team and reshaped the solar system.
so the next time you look up into the celestial dome and spot our closest neighbor, raise a salute to Theia, gone but not forgotten.
