I Don’t Really Give A Shit About This Tumblr Being Removed From The App Store Thing But Above All I

Neptune has 13 moons.

Palazzo Reale, Naples, Italy

Massimo Listri Photography

“No good story started with someone eating a salad”. Make a good story about a guy eating a salad.

same tbh.

Deux Arabesques, L.66, No.1 : Premiere Arabesque In E Major - Andantino Con Moto 

By Composer Claude Debussy

Performed By Pianist Francis-Joel Thiollier

I’ve been a busy witch today✨

Science fact time! Neutron stars.

Is “starquake” not the coolest word?

Grimoire - more zodiac signs (should I post the whole series of zodiac notes I’ve done) 🌧

'Space Butterfly' Is Home to Hundreds of Baby Stars

What looks like a red butterfly in space is in reality a nursery for hundreds of baby stars, revealed in this infrared image from our Spitzer Space Telescope. Officially named Westerhout 40 (W40), the butterfly is a nebula — a giant cloud of gas and dust in space where new stars may form. The butterfly’s two “wings” are giant bubbles of hot, interstellar gas blowing from the hottest, most massive stars in this region.

Besides being beautiful, W40 exemplifies how the formation of stars results in the destruction of the very clouds that helped create them. Inside giant clouds of gas and dust in space, the force of gravity pulls material together into dense clumps. Sometimes these clumps reach a critical density that allows stars to form at their cores. Radiation and winds coming from the most massive stars in those clouds — combined with the material spewed into space when those stars eventually explode — sometimes form bubbles like those in W40. But these processes also disperse the gas and dust, breaking up dense clumps and reducing or halting new star formation.

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ASTRO FACT: Jupiter is well known for being the fastest spinning planet in our solar system. Many wonder why this speedy spinning occurs. Inside the gas planet lives its guardian, the Speedo-Torpedo whaleshark. This majestic being is about 1/8th the size of the actual planet and is able to swim inside of it. To keep adventurers away from its treasure, the whaleshark swims in a circular pattern around the outer border at incredible speeds to keep it spinning on its axis so quickly. This also causes the storms which make it increasingly difficult for anyone to get to the center.