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“When you meet someone who tries their hardest to stick by you regardless of how difficult you are, keep them. Keep them at all costs because finding someone who cares enough to look past your flaws isn’t something that happens every day.” — Midnight Thoughts (I got lucky with you)(via butchbyproduct)
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Sharpest View of the Andromeda Galaxy, Ever.
The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has captured the sharpest and biggest image ever taken of the Andromeda galaxy — a whopping 69,536 x 22,230 pixels. The enormous image is the biggest Hubble image ever released and shows over 100 million stars and thousands of star clusters embedded in a section of the galaxy’s pancake-shaped disc stretching across over 40,000 light-years.Use the ZOOM TOOL to view in full detail.
(WARNING: May cause existential crisis)
So here’s a thing. All the bigger dots…the stars that stand out as being much larger than the dots you see in the lower-most image are in fact not in Andromeda. Those are stars in the Milky Way that are between us and Andromeda. There are a lot of them, which makes sense because Andromeda actually takes up a fairly big hunk of our sky (it’s just too dim to see much of with the naked eye.)
The Milky Way and Andromeda are comparably dense.
People often wonder why we don’t have an accurate count of how many stars there are in the Milky Way..this is why. SO MANY! SO MANY STARS! It looks like static…like sand under a microscope, but every one of those dots is a sun…and the majority of them have planets…and that’s just one other galaxy of an estimated hundred billion in the observable universe.
This picture is just another reason why I’m SO FREAKING EXCITED about Crash Course Astronomy.
If you would like to ask me questions about this image…I’ll be answering a few in the next hour or so.
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Hey, this post may contain adult content, so we’ve hidden it from public view.
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Whether a thought is spoken or not it is a real thing and has powers of reality.
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2015 Queer Press Grant Prism Comics is now accepting submissions for this year’s Queer Press Grant. The Queer Press Grant is specifically awarded to independent queer comic book creators. The grant was established by Prism Comics in 2003 to assist in the publication, and promotion of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender comics.
Comic books, comic strips, webcomics, and graphic novel projects are all eligible. Entries are judged first and foremost by artistic merit, followed by concerns such as financial need, proposal presentation, and the project’s contribution to the LGBT community.
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Winter fairy tail Kiev Ukraine by Valerii9116
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For What’s it’s Worth
These images combine photography and computer generated elements in an effort to visualise the output of a mine. The CGI objects represent a scale model of the materials removed from the mine, a solid mass occupying a scene which shows the ground from which it was extracted. By doing so, the intention is to create a kind of visualisation of the merits and shortfalls of mining in South Africa, an industry that has shaped the history and economy of the country so radically.(via staceythinx)