Computers Are Very Simple You See We Take The Hearts Of Dead Stars And We Flatten Them Into Crystal Chips

By Samantha Cavet

winter grace by Patricia Fargnoli

my main goal in life is to be wrong about quantum physics in ways that make me sound smarter than the other people inevitably wrong people around me

so i was looking up the System Source Computer Musuem and apparently they have a VIRTUAL TOUR !!! and when I say I spent a good deal of time freaking out and sending screenshots of this thing to my friends . my goodness

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.

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answers are in the form [name], the study of (description)

sorry if i missed one. unless it's astr*logy then i dont care

Northern Lights in Iceland (Harald Viggo Moltke, 1900)