international friends: here’s the deal. South African scientists have been tracking the COVID genome and keeping an eye out for mutations. Most places in the world aren’t doing so. When we announce a new variant, it’s not necessarily from South Africa, we just publicised the fact that we detected it here. And yet, because we’re a country in the Global South, it doesn’t matter that our scientists are incredible and are doing the world a service by tracking and reporting these things, because our ordinary citizens are being blacklisted because of it and being prevented from entering other countries and placed on red lists for no reason
From top to bottom:
NGC 6720 ~ Ring Nebula NGC 6543 ~ Cat’s Eye Nebula
NGC 7293 ~ Helix Nebula (also called Eye of God“ and Eye of Sauron“)
IC 418 ~ Spirograph Nebula
MyCn18 ~ Engraved Hourglass Nebula
NGC 6826 or Caldwell 15 ~ the Blinking Planetary
some of my favourite microscope images I’ve taken
please don’t repost without credit
Me doing nothing while my life falls apart
the new composite james webb image is so beautiful ive been staring at it for 10 minutes straight
featuring jupiters rings, amalthea (along with a bunch of other moons), the northern and southern auroras, and the great red spot
EDIT: FAQs answered here
This is a composite of meteor images captured during the Perseid maximum in the morning of the 12th of August 2016. Image credit: Michael Nolle
Pulling apart duct tape causes chemical bonds to break which indirectly gives rise to a faint blue glow in an effect called triboluminescence
Bottle rocket under ice
My eyes just aren’t sure how.
These are called RGB dispersion prisms
you can buy them here…