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The Ghosts of Gamma Cas ©

Sh2-136, Ghosts of the Cosmos

Over 800 terrestrial exoplanets visualized and arranged according to their equilibrium temperature and size.

chart by u/mVargic

Image of Saturn and some of its moons, captured by the James Webb Space Telescope’s NIRCam instrument on June 25, 2023.

Credits: NASA

M42, Great Orion

Inneston, South Australia, Australia | blntpencil

Rainer Maria Rilke, from Where Silence Reigns: Selected Prose; "An Experience,"

[...] while compartmentalization and replication are important, they are aspects of what life is and does, but they do not address the why of life. The why of life is metabolism. By completing the circuit of life, biology harnesses energy from its environment. Technically speaking, this means that biology actually helps the universe cool faster; it increases the entropy of the universe. This is why the universe needs life.

Alien Oceans by Kevin Peter Hand

Astronomical photographs, Harvard College Observatory, Cambridge, 1890-1920

an actual true color photograph showing Saturn, its rings, and one of its moons taken by the Cassini space probe orbiting 23.8k miles away, October 11, 2005