The Black Areas Represent The Remaining Natural Dark Skies In The United States

Space + Academia

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can you hear the music?

NGC 1512 by NASA's James Webb Space Telescope

Lunar Eclipse over the ESO’s VLT, Chile

i feel like the crimew thing shows how much queer discourse dehumanizes people. crimew is an extremely cool & talented person who's like. literally embodying 'be gay do crime' in it's truest form, but the minute that people find out it is a bi lesbian, suddenly thats. all they can think of her as? like no consideration of how it Hacked The Fucking No Fly List, everyone can only focus on her lesbian identity crimes. because none of the people who do this shit can ever see "wrong" queer people as people. they treat identity discourse like it's the biggest issue in the world even to this absolutely absurd level. doesn't matter what they do for queer liberation doesn't matter if they are happy, if you Do Identity Wrong all you are in their eyes are a freak who's personally responsible for lesbophobia or transphobia or w/e. funny how that works

Eclipse

Today there was a partial solar eclipse visible in mid to eastern europe.

In Germany we could see how the moon covers between 20 and 30% of the sun

What that James Webb image really means. Full video here:

To Stand on a Comet

This footage was taken by ESA Rosetta probe on the Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko.

The snow fall is in fact a number of things, firstly the background stars moving as the comet rotates, secondly the zippy streaks are in fact cosmic rays and then there is dust moving about too, so none of it snow !

First crying-roses term of the year lets gooo

⁺⊹ . ｡. :☆ Alderlactea ☆: .｡.⊹ ⁺

Alderlactea [Alder-lac-tia] is an aldernic term for when one has, or wishes to have, a body that is, partially or fully, made of stars, starry or galactic.

Flag ID

[Flag ID: A flag with 7 similarly sized horizontal stripes. From top to bottom, the colours are dark blue, dark purple, dark magenta, muted salmon, gold, light yellow and white. The flag has a golden orange in the centre outlined with muted salmon. End ID.]