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Anyone else want to smash their face into this “pillow”? Just us … ok! 😅

Researchers propose that this planetary nebula was created by two stars that sloughed off material over thousands of years in fits and starts. As the pair closely orbited one another, they may have entered a phase of more violent and highly directed mass ejections.

The Hubble Space Telescope first looked at this planetary nebula in 1998. By comparing the old and new Hubble observations, we can literally see how it changed over time.

What’s special about this image is that the Hubble’s unique ultraviolet capabilities helped reveal how much dust obscures the nebula’s central star, as well as the star’s temperature and age.

Credit: NASA, ESA, Joel Kastner (RIT).

ALT TEXT: A nebula with a pink elliptical shell is surrounded by concentric of blue gas, all set on a black star-filled background. A small bright star is in the middle of the nebula. On top of the pink shell are a series of wide, blue, linear structures. Two of them cross, forming a boxy, wide X shape. A third cuts vertically through the center of the X. Superimposed on all of these structures are vein-like filaments of dark red gas, including a thicker red equatorial belt.

but! we! cannot! simply! sit! and! stare! at! our! wounds! forever!

Somewhere out there on a planet very far away is a civilization that has included our sun in a beloved constellation of some animal we couldn't dream up if we tried

i think aliens should stop by, give the answer to an unsolved math problem, not explain it, and then leave

All Souls Library; University of Oxford

“Whatever — the soup is getting cold.”

— Last sentence of a mathematical theorem in Leonardo da Vinci’s notebook, 1518 (x)

the past couple months i've really been faced with the question of "why do you study astrophysics" and. uh

i don't know if I'm passionate about what i do because i know a lot about it, or if i know a lot about what i do because I'm passionate about it

because i definitely did not give two shits about space until maybe the last year of high school. but to be fair i did not give two shits about anything

Jupiter's auroras animation

Images: ESA/Hubble

Northern Lights in Iceland (Harald Viggo Moltke, 1900)