The random astronomical blog... with donuts and comedy for good measure.

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    Apparently you can’t have problems if you’re not a starving African child.

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    Source: ohioisonfiire

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    dickochet:

    Have you ever regretted a decision you made so much that you think about it all the time and you imagine all of the different ways the situation could have turned out if you didn’t mess up so bad

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    the-science-llama:

    Galaxy Coast
    — Bill Shupp // Flickr

    Taken near Bixby Bridge north of Big Sur, CA, this is a 12 shot vertical panorama taken around 4 am this past Monday, when the Milky Way was pretty high in the sky. The glow near the horizon is a lighthouse just around the bend.

    All shots are 20 seconds, except the bottom one, which is 3 minutes

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    Source: Flickr / shupp

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    if someone ever falls in love with me i will literally die of shock

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  6.   understandingtheuniverse: Your Age On Other Worlds This is a cool website that lets you calculate your age had you lived on any of the other planets in the Solar System. It not only gives your age in days and years but also tells you when you can celebrate your next birthday if, say, you lived on Mars. 

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    understandingtheuniverse:

    Your Age On Other Worlds

    This is a cool website that lets you calculate your age had you lived on any of the other planets in the Solar System. It not only gives your age in days and years but also tells you when you can celebrate your next birthday if, say, you lived on Mars. 

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    Source: understandingtheuniverse

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    jesuschristvevo:

    i want to blow up my school but i dont want to get in trouble u feel me

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    natural light display in the sky particularly in the high latitude regions, caused by the collision of energetic charged particles with atoms in the high altitude atmosphere.

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    Source: huffingtonpost.ca

  9.   gelametwra: choose your favourite reaction

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    gelametwra:

    choose your favourite reaction

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    the-science-llama:

    If Earth Had Rings

    First off, they would be really pretty to look at. They would also dominate the sky in both night and day at exactly the same place as they would never rise nor set. And at night you would see the Earth’s shadow swing across the rings, like in the 4th photo here.

    However, life would be very different on Earth if this were the case. Nocturnal animals would have a hard time being nocturnal, as the light reflecting from the rings would illuminate the night.

    Because we are closer to the Sun than Saturn is, the rings would be more rocky than ice, making them less bright but still pretty bright. In fact, you would see far less stars at night (living anywhere other than the equator or the arctic circle) because of the light pollution and not to mention ruin most meteor showers because of that.

    During the day the rings would block sunlight in certain regions of the planet creating wild weather cycles and effecting plant life as well. So basically, they would be definitely pretty to look at but they would also make a whole lot of things screwy.

    Illustrations by Ron Miller // io9
    — Click the photos for captions

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    Source: the-science-llama