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Interstellar dust of the Horsehead Nebula as revealed by the Hubble Space Telescope and KUEYEN telescope. Credit: NASA/ESA/Hubble, ESO
This is an artist’s concept of the fastest rotating star found to date. The massive, bright young star, called VFTS 102 rotates at about two million kilometres per hour. Centrifugal force from this dizzying spin rate has flattened the star into an oblate shape, and spun off a disk of hot plasma, seen edge on in this view from a hypothetical planet. The star may have “spun up” by accreting material from a binary companion star. The rapidly evolving companion later exploded as a supernova. The whirling star lies 160 000 light-years away in the Large Magellanic cloud, a satellite galaxy of the Milky Way.
Credit: NASA/ESA and G. Bacon (STScI)
video stills april 2020
07/04/20
500,000 Suns by Paul Blake
Jupiter (filtered) by Judith Schmidt.
Spacesick - adj. a feeling of intense longing felt towards space; being homesick for outer space
example: I kept looking up at the night sky, feeling spacesick and wanting to be one with the stars.
Saturn and Neptune by Voyager II
types of people: celestial bodies
stars: bright-eyed, lonely, smiling to hide the pain, dreamer, falling in love with music, overworking, makes others happy
comets: cold, secretly wants to hold hands, killer gaze, has trouble expressing their emotions, loves unconditionally
moons: soft, a little clingy, heart of gold, gives the best hugs, says sorry too often, pinky promises, gets excited easily
meteors: quiet, fleeting but beautiful smiles, a little insecure, has a way with words, friends are like family, selfless
asteroids: stubborn, loud, protective of their loved ones, doesn’t care, street smart, will fight you, probably wears rings
nebulae: soul of an artist, messy hair, loves children, vibrant, laughs loudly, sensitive, every color is their favorite color
URANUS IN AQUARIUS
we are golden stars above silver seas
we hear echoes from another galaxy
(artist of top & bottom painting: tincanforest)
Detroit Free Press, Michigan, August 31, 1934
The Atlanta Constitution, Georgia, June 25, 1932
↳ in the profound darkness of certain nights i have seen the sky streaked with so many trailing sparks that it seemed to me a great gale must be blowing through the outer heavens (antoine de saint-exupery)
(insp.)
Astronomy vignettes. Learning about our world. 1932.
Neighboring planets, painted by Don Dixon, 1978.
the truth is out there
An total solar eclipse, 1905, observed from Palma, Balearic Islands, Spain, illustrated by Major Baden-Powell.
Saturn as seen from its moon Enceladus, illustrated by Chesley Bonestell, 1972.
Apollo art by Erich Fuchs, Robert McCall, Davis Meltzer, and Alan Bean.
The future in space, painted by Ron Miller.
1973 NASA art by Rick Guidice visualizes the idea of a Pioneer probe using Jupiter’s gravity to slingshot itself toward the outer planets and beyond.
Volcanism on Titan, moon of Saturn, illustrated by Kenneth Fagg for IF, July 1953.