My Subtitles Said “WARGH!” But This Scene Made Me Laugh So Much. Also John Surrendering/fighting

NASA Astronomy Picture of the Day 2016 October 23 

Eagle Aurora over Norway 

What’s that in the sky? An aurora. A large coronal mass ejection occurred on our Sun five days before this 2012 image was taken, throwing a cloud of fast moving electrons, protons, and ions toward the Earth. Although most of this cloud passed above the Earth, some of it impacted our Earth’s magnetosphere and resulted in spectacular auroras being seen at high northern latitudes. Featured here is a particularly photogenic auroral corona captured above Grotfjord, Norway. To some, this shimmering green glow of recombining atmospheric oxygen might appear as a large eagle, but feel free to share what it looks like to you. Although now past Solar Maximum, our Sun continues to show occasional activity creating impressive auroras on Earth visible only last week.

It’s important for the alpha’s mate to pass essential life skills on to the pack. It’s probably not as important to inform the alpha about said skills.

Ole Henrik Skjelstad Guardians of the Lake

Hair

I hate that my hair keeps getting in the way of me reading, but I can't change positions. So I have to suck it up and deal with it.

PASS THIS ON.

The first transgender suicide hotline is now up and running in the U.S. You can reach Trans Lifeline at 877-565-8860.

Part 2 of The Monsters They Made Us series is up. Updates will be Monday and Friday one week, and Wednesday the next until the end of the story.

Here’s the orbital period of our solar system’s 8 major planets (how long it takes each to travel around the sun). Their size is to scale and their speed is accurate relative to Earth’s. The repetition of each GIF is proportional to their orbital period. Mercury takes less than 3 months to zoom around Sol, Neptune takes nearly 165 years.