Latest Posts by azurilmare - Page 7
at night, desperate to sleep
thinking about that fucking elevator scene
they would never have to be alone again
STAR WARS: THE LAST JEDI Dir. Rian Johnson, 2017.
Glittering Frisbee Galaxy: This image from Hubble’s shows a section of a spiral galaxy located about 50 million light-years from Earth. We tend to think of spiral galaxies as massive and roughly circular celestial bodies, so this glittering oval does not immediately appear to fit the visual bill. What’s going on? Imagine a spiral galaxy as a circular frisbee spinning gently in space. When we see it face on, our observations reveal a spectacular amount of detail and structure. However, the galaxy frisbee is very nearly edge-on with respect to Earth, giving it an appearance that is more oval than circular. The spiral arms, which curve out from the galaxy’s dense core, can just about be seen. Although spiral galaxies might appear static with their picturesque shapes frozen in space, this is very far from the truth. The stars in these dramatic spiral configurations are constantly moving as they orbit around the galaxy’s core, with those on the inside making the orbit faster than those sitting further out. This makes the formation and continued existence of a spiral galaxy’s arms something of a cosmic puzzle, because the arms wrapped around the spinning core should become wound tighter and tighter as time goes on - but this is not what we see. This is known as the winding problem. Image credit: ESA/Hubble & NASA For more information on this image, visit: https://go.nasa.gov/2niODGL
Whatever causes night in our souls may leave stars. Cimourdain was full of virtues and truth, but they shine out of a dark background.
Victor Hugo, Ninety-Tree
#universe #galaxy #stars #nasa
When galaxies collide — a common event in the universe — a fresh burst of star formation typically takes place as gas clouds mash together. At this point, the galaxy has a blue hue, but the color does not mean it is cold: it is a result of the intense heat of newly formed blue–white stars. Those stars do not last long, and after a few billion years the reddish hues of aging, smaller stars dominate an elliptical galaxy’s spectrum.
Our Hubble Space Telescope (@NASAHubble) caught sight of a soft, diffuse-looking galaxy, perhaps the aftermath of a long-ago galactic collision when two spiral galaxies, each perhaps much like the Milky Way, swirled together for millions of years.
In such mergers, the original galaxies are often stretched and pulled apart as they wrap around a common center of gravity. After a few back-and-forths, this starry tempest settles down into a new, round object. The now subdued celestial body is technically known as an elliptical galaxy.
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Credit: ESA/Hubble & NASA
Everybody ready to say goodbye to our solar system? To our galaxy.
Maybe it means something more - something we can't yet understand. Maybe it's some evidence, some artefact of a higher dimension that we can't consciously perceive. I'm drawn across the universe to someone I haven't seen in a decade, who I know is probably dead. Love is the one thing we're capable of perceiving that transcends dimensions of time and space. Maybe we should trust that, even if we can't understand it.
Interestellar, 2014
Faun Girl
Take her by the safest road. A ship lays anchored in the Grey Havens. It waits to carry her across the Sea… The last journey of Arwen Undómiel.
nin o chithaeglir lasto beth daer rimmo nin bruinen dan in ulaer
In 1909, renowned English artist Arthur Rackham illustrated W. L. Courtney’s translation of Undine. The results are breathtaking, if unsurprising: Rackham was a master of his craft. The book contains 15 full color plates, and I’ve picked a few of my favorite to showcase here.
ilvermorny houses aesthetic
It is sometimes said of the Ilvermorny houses that they represent the whole witch or wizard: the mind is represented by Horned Serpent; the body, Wampus; the heart, Pukwudgie and the soul, Thunderbird. Others say that Horned Serpent favours scholars, Wampus, warriors, Pukwudgie, healers and Thunderbird, adventurers.
All of you, thank you so much for existing <3
Y'all ever see an edit so good that your brain can’t comprehend the fact that most editors in this fandom are not professionals, they’re students or people who work in regular jobs but in their freetime spent so much time on learning how to use photoshop and debeloped these aestethic ideas just because they enjoy it and this should be rewarded so much in my eyes
you have no idea how much i miss drawing
Daphne transforming into a Laurel Tree
Apollo and Daphne, 1620s, Gian Lorenzo Bernini
Daphne, 1921, Arthur Rackham
Atonement (2007), dir. Joe Wright
Natural accessories (details)
1. Expectation, Rosa Schweininger 2. Perdita, Frederik Sandys 3. Young fair haired lady, Sophie Anderson 4. Allégorie de la Victoire, Jules Lefebvre 5. Santa Caterina Incoronata, Bartolomeo 6. Ophelia, Ernest Hébert
You would’ve been happy at Highgarden. But women in our position must make the best of our circumstances.
Colour wheel by the Austrian entomologist Ignaz Schiffermüller, featured in his treatise on colour Versuch eines Farbensystems (1772)
The Angel of the Birds, 1910
Franz Dvorak
The Sleeper and the Spindle
Neil Gaiman
Illustrated by Chris Riddell