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Southern moonscape

Full Moon rises behind a Soyuz rocket

Space history

It’s a hobby of mine to listen to and watch archives from the Apollo era.

There’s many places where you can just browse transcripts and video archives, but I’d recommend https://apolloinrealtime.org/11/ and https://apollo17.org.

Watching some of the videos from that time is eerie, because these people are so distant and isolated on this dark surface, illuminated by an inclined sun.

The Shuttle Atlantis seen in silhouette during solar transit, May 12, 2009. Image by NASA/Thierry Legault.

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Apollo 16 Lunar Rover Grand Prix

Ever wanted to drive on the moon?

Video

Ver sacrum - 1899 - via University of Heidelberg

Animated gif for a class that I procrastinated on for like a month! It’s Sally Ride, who I had a mild obsession with in like elementary school

The Long Gas Tail of Spiral Galaxy D100 : Why is there long red streak attached to this galaxy? The streak is made mostly of glowing hydrogen that has been systematically stripped away as the galaxy moved through the ambient hot gas in a cluster of galaxies. Specifically, the galaxy is spiral galaxy D100, and cluster is the Coma Cluster of galaxies. The red path connects to the center of D100 because the outer gas, gravitationally held less strongly, has already been stripped away by ram pressure. The extended gas tail is about 200,000 light-years long, contains about 400,000 times the mass of our Sun, and stars are forming within it. Galaxy D99, visible to D100’s lower left, appears red because it glows primarily from the light of old red stars – young blue stars can no longer form because D99 has been stripped of its star-forming gas. The featured false-color picture is a digitally enhanced composite of images from Earth-orbiting Hubble and the ground-based Subaru telescope. Studying remarkable systems like this bolsters our understanding of how galaxies evolve in clusters. via NASA

crew dragon mated to falcon 9!

Social instincts are a biological extension to this underlying love that we experience and as a side effect it is useful for our survival. I can think of a few cases where asexually reproducing animals show love for each other. Remember also that love comes in many kinds and not just romantic/sexual.

Listen to me when I say that love isn’t something that we invented. It’s observable, powerful. It has to mean something.

INTERSTELLAR (2014) dir. Christopher Nolan