Stickoflicorice - Rip Opportunity 2004-2019

Look! A cosmic block party 🥳 In this Hubble image, you’ll find 50 spiral and dwarf galaxies hanging out in our cosmic neighborhood. The main focal point of stars is actually a dwarf galaxy. Dwarf galaxies often show a hazy structure, an ill-defined shape and an appearance somewhat akin to a swarm or cloud of stars — and UGC 685 is no exception to this. These data were gathered under Hubble’s Legacy ExtraGalactic UV Survey (LEGUS) program, the sharpest and most comprehensive ultraviolet survey of star-forming galaxies in the nearby universe. Image Credit: ESA/Hubble & NASA; the LEGUS team, B. Tully, D. Calzetti

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Methane ice dunes found on Pluto

The findings come after images from NASA’s New Horizon mission have been analysed from travelling the system for nearly a decade. As well as having a diameter of only 2,377km and surface temperatures of -230C; Pluto’s atmosphere was thought to be too thin for the formation of features similar to those found in deserts on earth. The dunes formed next to a major mountain range of water ice 5km high where wind is generated as air flows downhill. It can get as high as 10m/s which is enough to carry the tiny particles. Scientists can’t see everything from the images but they were able to discern the dunes are 0.4-1km apart and the methane crystals 200-300 micrometers in diameter (roughly a grain of sand).

The grains of methane (and maybe nitrogen) are thought to be produced through a process known as sublimation. This is where a solid transitions directly to a gas skipping the liquid phase. This essentially transports it into the atmosphere where the tiny crystals form then the Pluto’s winds move them around the dwarf planet.

Nurture nature.

embroidered a rena-themed patch for fun 👽

who knows who said this

(art by me tho)

some people theorize that aliens are not from another planet but rather they are inter dimensional beings, not from outer space 🕳🌌😱🍃🛸

Oh, Merciful Poseidon, Have Pity On This Mechanical Mariner

KRAZY KREATURES FROM OUTER SPACE. Monster cards from the 1970s. (Via Monsterbrains.)