“Deep Into That Darkness Peering, Long I Stood There Wondering, Fearing, Doubting, Dreaming Dreams

It’s funny how it’s so hard to love myself but so easy to love others. I hate the reflection in the mirror, but love those who force me to hate it. The Irony.

thegirl-withscars  (via wnq-writers)

At #SDCC2016, @itsfullofstars stopped by a Boeing booth dedicated to celebrating future #Mars exploration, and received this cool piece of swag: a brochure about the SLS that’s also a papercraft model. We got the contact info of one of the people running the booth, and are planning to reach out for an interview soon.

The Bright Side of Emotions: An Interview With Kayla Varley

Growing up in a small town in the middle of California, Kayla Varley knew she wanted to see more of the world and explore it through her photography. Ever since she was a child photography was a creative escape to a whole different world. A world where moments are being captured forever. In this interview she talks about her decision to move to Los Angeles and how that influenced her work and the ability to grow as photographer.

Photos © Kayla Varley

You don’t walk away if you love someone. You help the person.

Hillary Clinton (via wordsnquotes)

There's an unidentified object in a strange orbit past Neptune, and no one can explain it

The outer Solar System just got even weirder.

Scientists have discovered a mysterious object located on the outskirts of the Solar System, and while we don’t know much about it yet, what we do know doesn’t make a whole lot of sense.

Nicknamed Niku, it appears to be a trans-Neptunian object, which means it’s a minor planet that exists past Neptune. But that’s where things start to get a little strange.

While there are lots of minor planets that we know about – ie. objects smaller than planets that aren’t comets – and scientists are finding more all the time, Niku doesn’t behave like the rest of them.

For starters, Niku orbits the Sun on a plane that’s tilted 110 degrees to the plane of the Solar System – the flat orbital disk in which the planets move around the Sun. It’s currently above the plane and rising higher, but it will eventually start lowering as it orbits back around.

Weirder still, while nearly all the objects in our Solar System orbit the Sun in the same direction – called the prograde direction – Niku bucks the trend, with aretrograde (or backwards) orbit of the Sun.

It’s not the first time a trans-Neptunian object has been discovered with a retrograde orbit, but when you combine it with Niku’s orbital tilt, it becomes clear that there’s something very unusual about this minor planet.

“It suggests that there’s more going on in the outer Solar System than we’re fully aware of,” astrophysicist Matthew Holman from the Harvard-Smithsonian Centre for Astrophysics explained to Shannon Hall at New Scientist.

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December. It’s the time for lovers and lonely hearts. It’s a month that can go both ways..when the snow on the ground can remind you of the cold that wells in your heart or the warmth that will soon embrace you in your lovers arms. It’s an ending, when you finally pick up the pieces of your broken heart and close the chapter to start a new one.

j0ethejellybean, writing prompt #72, write about December  (via wnq-writers)

Jardín Botánico Lancetilla, Tela, Atlántida.

#amelié

Ma passion est de voyager et voir le monde

Covert Art of the Week: “DOCTOR STRANGE” #7 (2015) by Chris Bachalo & Tim Townsend!