.you Uh

A visual explanation of why stars fall on Earth. Details of The Augsburg Book of Miracles, an illuminated manuscript made in Augsburg in Germany in the 16th century, anonymous author-ess.

.please stop assuming i’m straight

throws my hat into the ring

.yeah

isn't it kinda spaceist that all the mods are human

.you guys are just being heterophobic now

Hubble: .im straight

.god that makes me sound old. might just, yknow, shake a cane at them kids on my good green freshly mowed lawn, get off my fuckin lawn you fucking hoodlums

.im really tired.

Milan Kundera, The Unbearable Lightness of Being (trans. Michael Henry Heim)

[Text ID: “Well? “Nothing yet. I’ve been waiting.” “For what?” She made no response. She could not tell him that she had been waiting for him.”]

❤️🧡💛 Color the Cosmos 💚💙💜

📣 Attention, space explorers! Our Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope presents: two new coloring pages! Unleash your creativity to bring these celestial scenes to life.

Nancy Grace Roman, NASA’s first chief astronomer, smiles out at us from our first coloring page. She’s considered the mother of our Hubble Space Telescope because she helped everyone understand why it was important to have observatories in space – not just on the ground. If it weren’t for her, Hubble may have never become a reality.

The Roman Space Telescope is named after her to honor the legacy she left behind when she died in 2018. Thanks to Nancy Grace Roman, we’ve taken countless pictures of space from orbiting telescopes and learned so much more about the universe than we could have possibly known otherwise!

The second coloring page illustrates some of the exciting science topics the Roman Space Telescope will explore. Set to launch in the mid-2020s, the mission will view the universe in infrared light, which is like using heat vision. We’ll be able to peer through clouds of dust and see things that are much farther away.

We anticipate all kinds of discoveries from the edge of our solar system to the farthest reaches of space. This coloring page highlights a few of the things the Roman Space Telescope will help us learn more about. The mission will find thousands of planets beyond our solar system and hundreds of millions of galaxies. It will also help us unravel the mysteries of dark matter and dark energy, represented by the gray web-like pattern in the background. With so much exciting new data, who knows what else we may learn?

Download the coloring pages here!

Learn more about the Roman Space Telescope at: https://roman.gsfc.nasa.gov/

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