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#nibiru the Gods are back
planet painting by - @kerstin-jacobs
http://little-starlight-galaxy.eu
99GF/ Snake #2 (by JohnnyAlexAbbate)
HH67/ Capsule of weakness (by JohnnyAlexAbbate)
For Federico Forlani by Johnny Abbate
Johnny's Grave by Johnny Abbate
Abandoned cemetery in south Italy
HH45/ Tonight, Goodbye by Johnny Abbate
Ali15/ Ice by Johnny Abbate
I am all alone in this infinite void of the universe & everything that appears is just an illusion. It's not all that different from a video game.
20/05/2024, monday 20 may 2024, 05:52 p.m, indore, madhya pradesh, india.
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NGC 7331 Acquired with the Schulman Telescope at the Mount Lemmon
Credit: Adam Block/Mount Lemmon SkyCenter/University of Arizona
Mare Orientale - January 12th, 1996.
"Looking like a target ring bull's-eye, the Mare Orientale is one of the most striking large scale lunar features. Located on the Moon's extreme western edge, this impact basin is unfortunately difficult to see from an earthbound perspective. It is over 3 billion years old, about 600 miles across and was formed by the impact of an asteroid-sized object. The collision caused ripples in the lunar crust, resulting in the three concentric circular features visible in this 1967 photograph made by NASA's Lunar Orbiter 4. Molten lava from the Moon's interior flooded the impact site through the fractured crust, creating a mare. Dark, smooth regions on the Moon are called mare (Latin for sea), because early astronomers thought these areas might be oceans."
Yesterday night a Star was seeing me while I fixed a driver error with Iobit Driver Booster, I have the probe version so I could do it, it's great to see this Sky Events Yay Haha !! ☆ ～('▽^人)😀🌌🌑🌫🌟 #universe #iobitdriverbooster #star #sky #night (at Guayaquil, Ecuador) https://www.instagram.com/p/B6bWbkglIuR/?igshid=1qw5dxg222fgd
Assuming that the ship is canon too 🫶
(I hope the wording makes sense 😭)
For the one millionth time I just finished Radio silence (perfect way to start off pride) and for the millionth time I am crying and for the one millionth time I so badly want the life of Frances and for the one millionth time I have goosebumps.
And every time, I have fallen in love with this story.
it’s all I ever wanted to be
Freakonomics
Freakonomics is a beautiful book that doesn’t do a damn thing. Forget the books or, even better, tv finales that leave you with more questions than answers--this book is all questions.
Now, the book actually answers it’s questions or at least gives as much insight as possible to the questions it raises, but the questions that get you, and where it succeeds, are the questions you come up with after, on your own; looking at the world around you in a different light.
Are there true connections there, or are they just happenstance?
While for the most part, I love books that take you somewhere, this books brings everything to you. Different, and not so different from other books, this book makes you think. But it doesn’t just pose a philosophical quandary--it makes the world an open world of quandaries that you can ponder on your own or issues that it brings up that maybe you need to handle differently.
It’s not a cheat sheet to the world, it’s the coding manual that allows you to create all the cheat sheets in the world. You don’t go to space and meet aliens, you don’t go back in time to find out who murdered Tupac; you get to look at our world, your world and begin to answer your own questions--and are inspired to do so.
Sybill Trelawney
Sybill
This picture describes you the best to me. This doe-eyed, whiny, annoying middle school child (probably another reason her and Lavender connected so well). As a Hermione-type to begin with (and only increasing as I age) it’s not surprising that I found Sybil and her class to be ridiculous, but there are two parts to that. First, not being religious or believing in how when I was born controls that much of my life, the class itself was a bit frou-frou and crap and would be no matter who was teaching it. Secondly, she is the queen of frou-frou. For the most part, she had no real talent or skills but pretended she was this great predictor of everything and just a fraud, and that’s what upset me the most.
The universe is amazing, we can learn so much, but for her, it was all about her and the universe! (and how was she a Ravenclaw? More than Pettigrew I need a recount on that one) it was how she approached the material and how she saw herself that made her most distasteful because she wasn’t even a semi-good seer (that she knew of). She thought she was better than everyone else (much like Gilderoy--another Ravenclaw, definitely a pattern) for things that weren’t even her strengths, she was just of damn full of herself and annoying. But really, I don’t care. All of these things were annoying, she’s annoying but that’s it. She’s nothing more to me, so one lesson to glean, don’t be like her. But of course, the other lesson she also wouldn’t know about it as she didn’t know herself, expect the unexpected.
In a way it’s sad, thou she didn’t need to know and didn’t need to be a Seer, she actually was one, in the most crucial of times. Damn Universe. Somehow, through all that fluff and pompous, she made two predictions that greatly altered the world and never knew this. On one hand, you could say this means that you should believe in yourself, but I’m not saying that, what I am saying is that there are miracles, there is the universe and people can do unexpected and extraordinary things: even if they don’t know it. Crazy
Light Flickering
Light flickering
Reminds me of where I live
It’s annoying
But that’s just how it is
It makes it feel like more of a horror movie
And I know that there are monsters under the bed
I consider it camping
Yet it’s just life
It will carry on even if I can’t see the stars,
Swirling in time
Above my head,
A universe that I cannot touch
My mind
Is a strobe light
And I feel a bit dizzy
It’s a bit too much to take in, again
My heart is light with carbon dioxide
The candle a flickerin within
And I'm scared that
I can smell the smoke of the future
I Am Mother Nature’s Daughter
He may destroy my beauty
As he makes his dirty mark on the world
Which he believes he owns
He may scar me and pave over me
Twist and yank me to make me do what he wants
He can get under my grass dress
But oh
What he does not know
When I fall asleep
In my bed of moss
I can hear spirits whisper in my ear
I dream of warriors dancing around a fire
And it makes Wounded Bird feel protected
Knowing that I belong to mother nature
And that she never quits
She just keeps coming
Though she may be slow
I can see her rock cracking strength
Her ability to sink boats,
And create typhoons, tornados, tidal waves, tragedies and tsunamis
The way she grows and heals
And always takes back the steering wheel
And I ask for the universe to be nice to me
One Way Magic
I live in a world of unfinished poems
Sometimes I lose them
And it hurts
But I suppose there is a beauty in it
In the fact that it was created
Then went missing into the universe
Sometimes I forget that old ways
Can be the best ways
There is beauty in lost things
Beauty in destruction
How things are created
Then just cease to exist
Like a one way magic trick
Now you see it,
Now you don't
And you shall
Never see it
Again
But the universe will move on
And there will be more days
And more things will be created
Journaling
I leave my journal laying open at night, hoping that the words will fly off the page
And drift out the window into the night air
And dance around the moon
I should start dreaming soon
Too many bugs flying around my world
You wouldn’t want forever
People change
And you’ve never seen my rage
I miss your calming
Smooth
Sing-song voice
You left me no choice
But to trust
And live in the exhilarating moment
And taught me that you don’t have to chase
Or try to erase
Moments
Of happiness and sadness
The magic is already there
Sparking in the air
Getting stuck in your crazy hair
That I miss more than you'd ever know
I'm stuck in negative time
While forgetting how to rhyme
Where are my feelings?
Behind my eyes
Sharp
Hidden under the weathered tarp
One day I will finish writing my story
And I’ll let the words swarm you like a tornado of bees
Or a meteor shower
A universe with all the power
Was It Me?
Was it me or was it you?
Did I move closer?
Or did you?
I cannot tell
Since we move as one
Its like you were made for me
We both realize the risk
Just like Adam and Eve
We cannot help ourselves
I may not understand love
But I understand my heart
For some reason I let you slip into my head
I know that this probably wont work out
But I cant stop dreaming
About us being together forever
I can picture our future very vivid
And yet I am too sick to live a normal life
You showed me the secrets of the universe
I went outside and I don’t remember any of it
Except for you
You opened my mind enough to let love in
And take risks
Because love cannot kill
The risk
I almost took
Was not taking one
Gamma-ray Bursts: Black Hole Birth Announcements
Gamma-ray bursts are the brightest, most violent explosions in the universe, but they can be surprisingly tricky to detect. Our eyes can’t see them because they are tuned to just a limited portion of the types of light that exist, but thanks to technology, we can even see the highest-energy form of light in the cosmos — gamma rays.
So how did we discover gamma-ray bursts?
Accidentally!
We didn’t actually develop gamma-ray detectors to peer at the universe — we were keeping an eye on our neighbors! During the Cold War, the United States and the former Soviet Union both signed the Nuclear Test Ban Treaty of 1963 that stated neither nation would test nuclear weapons in space. Just one week later, the US launched the first Vela satellite to ensure the treaty wasn’t being violated. What they saw instead were gamma-ray events happening out in the cosmos!
Things Going Bump in the Cosmos
Each of these gamma-ray events, dubbed “gamma-ray bursts” or GRBs, lasted such a short time that information was very difficult to gather. For decades their origins, locations and causes remained a cosmic mystery, but in recent years we’ve been able to figure out a lot about GRBs. They come in two flavors: short-duration (less than two seconds) and long-duration (two seconds or more). Short and long bursts seem to be caused by different cosmic events, but the end result is thought to be the birth of a black hole.
Short GRBs are created by binary neutron star mergers. Neutron stars are the superdense leftover cores of really massive stars that have gone supernova. When two of them crash together (long after they’ve gone supernova) the collision releases a spectacular amount of energy before producing a black hole. Astronomers suspect something similar may occur in a merger between a neutron star and an already-existing black hole.
Long GRBs account for most of the bursts we see and can be created when an extremely massive star goes supernova and launches jets of material at nearly the speed of light (though not every supernova will produce a GRB). They can last just a few seconds or several minutes, though some extremely long GRBs have been known to last for hours!
A Gamma-Ray Burst a Day Sends Waves of Light Our Way!
Our Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope detects a GRB nearly every day, but there are actually many more happening — we just can’t see them! In a GRB, the gamma rays are shot out in a narrow beam. We have to be lined up just right in order to detect them, because not all bursts are beamed toward us — when we see one it’s because we’re looking right down the barrel of the gamma-ray gun. Scientists estimate that there are at least 50 times more GRBs happening each day than we detect!
So what’s left after a GRB — just a solitary black hole? Since GRBs usually last only a matter of seconds, it’s very difficult to study them in-depth. Fortunately, each one leaves an afterglow that can last for hours or even years in extreme cases. Afterglows are created when the GRB jets run into material surrounding the star. Because that material slows the jets down, we see lower-energy light, like X-rays and radio waves, that can take a while to fade. Afterglows are so important in helping us understand more about GRBs that our Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory was specifically designed to study them!
Last fall, we had the opportunity to learn even more from a gamma-ray burst than usual! From 130 million light-years away, Fermi witnessed a pair of neutron stars collide, creating a spectacular short GRB. What made this burst extra special was the fact that ground-based gravitational wave detectors LIGO and Virgo caught the same event, linking light and gravitational waves to the same source for the first time ever!
For over 10 years now, Fermi has been exploring the gamma-ray universe. Thanks to Fermi, scientists are learning more about the fundamental physics of the cosmos, from dark matter to the nature of space-time and beyond. Discover more about how we’ll be celebrating Fermi’s achievements all year!
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