Latest Posts by nyxs-knight - Page 7
Artistic conception of the auroras os Saturn and Earth (jupiter’s image is real - ultraviolet) Instagram: wonders_of_the_cosmos
Prom 2k14 with my girlfriend 😘 the best moment of the night was when a lesbian caterer came up to us and said “Seeing you two made my night. 10 years ago people like us wouldn’t be allowed to go together. Thank you” A memory that will last forever 💕
NGC 972
Just under 50 million light years from Earth, this spiral galaxy in the constellation of Aries appears as if it’s on fire, and in many respects, it is, with star birth.
The huge amount of gas and dust that is creating this starburst may have come from a recent merger with a gas rich dwarf galaxy, which would also explain the lack of definition of spiral arms.
It’s been hard for me to be in my body lately. It keeps feeling like I don’t know what I’m capable of, which makes me feel strange and alien and displaced.
Today my love told me to do some flexing, and she took these photos. She told me that she wanted me to see myself the way she sees me. I’ve never felt so loved and cared for and understood in my whole life.
This is what the Earth looks like from the surface of our red neighbour, Mars!
Happy Earth day everyone 🌎🌍🌏 Hope you’re all staying safe!!
Image Credit: NASA’s Curiosity Mars Rover
These two galaxies are very far away, 12 million light-years distant toward the northern constellation of the Great Bear. On the left, with grand spiral arms and bright yellow core is M81. It’s a spiral galaxy measuring in at about 100,000 light-years across. On the right marked by red gas and dust clouds, is M82, an irregular galaxy.
The pair have been locked in gravitational combat for a billion years. During each close encounter, gravity from each galaxy has insanely affected the other. Their last go-round lasted about 100 million years and likely raised density waves rippling around M81, resulting in the richness of it’s spiral arms. M82 was left with violent star forming regions and colliding gas clouds so energetic the galaxy actually glows in X-rays.
In the next few billion years, their continuing gravitational encounters will finally result in a merger, and only a single galaxy will remain. Image Credit & Copyright: Dietmar Hager, Torsten Grossmann
P.S. I hope everyone is staying safe in quarantine 💛
This unusual planetary nebula, NGC 7027, is one of the smallest, brightest, and most unusually shaped planetary nebulas known. Given its expansion rate, NGC 7027 first started expanding, as visible from Earth, about 600 years ago. For much of its history, the planetary nebula has been expelling shells, as seen in blue in the featured image.
In modern times, though, for reasons unknown, it began ejecting gas and dust (seen in red) in specific directions that created a new pattern that seems to have four corners. What lies at the nebula's center is unknown, with one hypothesis holding it to be a close binary star system where one star sheds gas onto an erratic disk orbiting the other star. NGC 7027, about 3,000 light years away, was first discovered in 1878 and can be seen with a standard backyard telescope toward the constellation of the Swan (Cygnus).
Image Credit: NASA, ESA, Joel Kastner (RIT) et al.; Processing: Alyssa Pagan (STScI)
*heavy metal guitars wailing* Find this illustration in my shop as an art print, sticker, tees, and more! Visit the shop link in my main profile.
A woman isn’t a doll by Julia Tsvetkova
real women have body hair – and it’s normal real women have periods – and it’s normal real women have body fat – and it’s normal real women have imperfect skin – and it’s normal real women have wrinkles and grey hair – and it’s normal real women have muscles – and it’s normal
On 20 November 2019 Russian activist, artist and feminist Julia Tsvetkova was arrested and put on house arrest two days later, charged with “production and dissemination of pornographic materials”. She was also accused of spreading “homosexual propaganda” to minors, and was later fined.
On 9 June, prosecutors confirmed that Tsvetkova was still due to stand trial, provoking real life protests and online outrage. Tsvetkova would be forced to answer for several cartoonish drawings of naked women with captions that read “Real women have body fat – and it’s normal” or “Real women have wrinkles and grey hair – and it’s normal”.
If convicted, Julia faces prison terms up to 6 years.
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I think this is the most beautiful representation of a woman’s reproductive system, that I have ever seen till date!
(By Jennifer O’Toole: @cellsdividing )
Her official website: https://www.cellsdividing.com/
White Dwarf’s shrink when they gain more mass
Many white dwarf stars have companion stars. What was once a binary pair of stars, one star exhausts its fuel and after being a red giant, sheds its outer shell and collapses into a white dwarf. Often the companion star is far enough away to not be a problem, but from time to time, they are close enough for an exchange of material, particularly if the partner star bloats to become a red giant. The white dwarf begins to snack on the material from the partner star.
Now, you’d imagine the white dwarf would then grow in size, but rather, it shrinks !
It’s not the size that denotes the amount of material, it’s the mass, and as the mass increases, so does the gravitational effect, and the matter is then crushed further down.
As the gravitational pull increases, it is possible that the now dead star can gain enough pressure at the centre to re-ignite fusion of carbon and oxygen, and it turns out that the mass required to do this, sits very close to the limit where neutron stars are formed. So suddenly a huge portion of the carbon and oxygen begins to fuse, and causes a huge explosion of energy. so much so, that most supernova explosions will output more energy in that one event, than our sun will in it’s entire 10 billion years of main sequence life.
Crazy Idea:
All females should be able to safely exist shirtless when the situation is necessary or comfortable. We should be able to do this without being sexualized.
I have nothing but the utmost love and respect for my sisters who have had mastectomies, but I am side-eyeing the hell out of the many, many women I see lately talking about getting top surgery just so that they can be shirtless outside.
Listen up, friends. We should fight for a new world, instead. We should fight for spaces where the female body can embrace as much freedom as the male body is regularly allowed to have without gross sexualization. We have the right to bare chests. Liberating yourself from the mindset of “not being able to be shirtless” because you have breasts might just be the best thing you ever do for yourself. Your breasts don’t hold you back from this experience - society’s expectation for what those breasts mean is what holds you back. It’s not physical, it’s cultural, and every Woman deserves to be able to to be bare chested without being in danger.
⛅️ Tips For Letting Go of Performative Feminity ⛅️
learn about your external body. look up the functions of leg and armpit hair, and pores, and brows. You're less likely to want to strip away these aspects if you know their purpose.
Also look at the potential harm that high heels, bleach, etc. can cause to your skin, hair, psychology, and general health
donate, recycle or throw out potentially harmful products such as razors, wax strips, cosmetics, heels etc. I would recommend getting rid of one thing at a time, and easing yourself out of it
find pictures or videos of woman without any cosmetic treatment or at all. Notice the ways in which they are beautiful and important without regulating their appearance
practice remaining mindful whilst self grooming. If some part of your practice is exhausting to you, or you don't know why you do it, or it's solely for other people and not plesant, give yourself permission to discard it
say something kind and supportive to yourself in the morning when you look in the mirror, before you've gotten ready.
learn to embrace change- from fluctuations in your skin to the tangling of your hair to the arrival of your period- you are an organic being, and are not supposed to always look exactly one way
What the hell are Comets, Meteroids, and Asteroids?
SEE BELOW TO FIND OUT
COMET
Made of ice, rock and dust.
They originate outside our solar system
HUGE. like miles wide. Big boys.
They orbit the sun.
They have that tail thingy.
METEOROID
Small. Like could be a grain of sand
Rocky or metal
They originate from comets or asteroids aka they are the bits that fall off
They orbit the sun
Can fall to earth but then they are called a meteor (if they vaporize in the atmosphere) or a meteorite (if they hit earth)
ASTEROID
Also made of rock or metal
Are larger than a meteoroid and historically if an object is larger than 10 meters across, they are called an asteroid
Also orbit the sun because the sun is so damn popular but they are generally between Mars and Jupiter
Binding Damage
I bound my breasts almost full time for around 2 years before I had my mastectomy. As a result, my lung capacity is reduced and the muscles around my ribcage are still much less strong than they were before I began binding, even though it has been over a year now since I have worn a binder or even a bra. I even bound ‘safely’ using an Underworks compression vest in the correct size, never with ace bandages or any other methods. I still can’t take a full, deep breath like I used to.
Does anyone have any tricks to regaining lung capacity and strengthening the rib/chest/abdominal muscles after binding? I’m not sure how to increase lung capacity itself or how to exercise the particular muscles that have been effected but I’d like to regain some strength if possible.
For me, being bare chested means freedom. Running around shirtless is a big “fuck you” to all the misogyny I internalized as a young girl related to the acceptable ways for the female body to exist. This body is the only one I’m ever going to have, so I’m doing my best to unlearn all of the patriarchal bullshit placed on it just because I’m female. I don’t need to remove my breasts to have the right to exist bare chested - society needs to get over the idea that these breasts exist to be sexualized. Fuck em all, do you. You don’t need any permission ✌🏻️
Do you want to know what is scary? The fact that, in all of the observable universe, there is a single place where there is NOTHING. Literally NO. THING. And it looks like this. Say hello to “Bootes Void.” 250 million light years of literal nothingness. THIS is horror.
Set goals and chase them down. Love and challenge your body. Be relentless and gentle. Stay Determined!!
My Female Fortress Built brick by brick with consistency and intention
This evening I assembled a piece of really cheap, shitty furniture with nothing but my equally cheap and shitty leatherman. I took this time to take my shirt off and complete a task while I was fully in my body and focused. As I crouched over to fasten screws into the piece, I was very conscious of how my stomach had rolls when I bent over, and how my hips bulged out a bit from my pants when I leaned. I usually feel pretty grossed out by how my body looks and behaves in these situations, how characteristically feminine and soft is appears, but I made myself sit with it this time. I wanted to reach for my shirt to cover my body up but I didn’t. For three hours, I bent over, drove screws into metal, and watched as my (soft, lumpy) body completed the task. I grew more and more content with the body performing the work as the project came together. When I was finished I felt so confident and pleased with the new addition to my apartment that I hung out with my shirt off for the rest of the night.
This is an example of an approach to a dysphoric moment that, rather than hiding or disguising my body, highlights my body’s existing capabilities and its inherent good. This method does nothing to create the illusion that my body is somehow different than what it really is. Essentially, this strategy is the opposite of that utilized through binders/packers/etc., devices that attempt to alter the appearance of the body, and thus the experience of being in that body, to relieve dysphoria. I distracted myself from my discomfort with a task that required a lot of concentration (those instructions were also shit, lol), and I became more familiar with how my body looked and felt over the course of a few hours. The familiarity somewhat desensitized me from the feelings of revulsion I typically feel toward my body.