Galaxies And The South Celestial Pole : The South Celestial Pole Is Easy To Spot In Star Trail Images

Galaxies and the South Celestial Pole : The South Celestial Pole is easy to spot in star trail images of the southern sky. The extension of Earth’s axis of rotation to the south, it’s at the center of all the southern star trail arcs. In this starry panorama streching about 60 degrees across deep southern skies the South Celestial Pole is somewhere near the middle though, flanked by bright galaxies and southern celestial gems. Across the top of the frame are the stars and nebulae along the plane of our own Milky Way Galaxy. Gamma Crucis, a yellowish giant star heads the Southern Cross near top center, with the dark expanse of the Coalsack nebula tucked under the cross arm on the left. Eta Carinae and the reddish glow of the Great Carina Nebula shine along the galactic plane near the right edge. At the bottom are the Large and Small Magellanic clouds, external galaxies in their own right and satellites of the mighty Milky Way. A line from Gamma Crucis through the blue star at the bottom of the southern cross, Alpha Crucis, points toward the South Celestial Pole, but where exactly is it? Just look for south pole star Sigma Octantis. Analog to Polaris the north pole star, Sigma Octantis is little over one degree fom the the South Celestial pole. via NASA

Bird games!!

So a few weeks ago I got back into gaming™ (aka I played the goose game and am trying to force people to play the duck game with me) so I decided to make a master post of bird themed games!

Duck Game - It’s the 80s, you’re a duck, you must fight other ducks (kinda like smash brothers but with ducks)

Untitled Goose Game - You’re a terrible goose and you hate humans

Wingspan - competitive bird conservation (and you’re probably gonna end up learning something like a fool)

Pigeon simulator - if pigeons were evil

The Falconeer - You’re on a bird and you attack people (critique; you’re not the bird)

Feather - Like the one above but you don’t kill people (a shame, I know)

SkateBird - UNRELEASED, you’re a bird on a skateboard, a skatebird!

Falcon Age - You and your very strange falcon save a country or something

A short hike - you’re some dope anthro bird going on a short hike

Pathless - You and your pet eagle that you have for some reason kill people I think

There’s probably more! Add them if you know them!

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One of my coworkers was telling me that they had seen these really cute trilobite plushies at another gift shop and recommended them to the store manager at our museum, which lead to us scrolling through the manufacturer's website together on shift today and SHRIEKING with laughter at the exact same moment when we simultaneously noticed that they sell a giant $100 eurypterid body pillow

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Sabiá-laranjeira/Rufous-bellied Thrush

Turdus rufiventris

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We just caught our second ever real life image of a black hole and this one is in our own galactic neighborhood and the internet isn't memeing it into oblivion or even talking about it. Tragic, truly. Sad, even.

They're in love y'know. Not that you care

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The Ghoul of IC 2118 : Inspired by the halloween season, this telescopic portrait captures a cosmic cloud with a scary visage. The interstellar scene lies within the dusty expanse of reflection nebula IC 2118 in the constellation Orion. IC 2118 is about 800 light-years from your neighborhood, close to bright bluish star Rigel at the foot of Orion. Often identified as the Witch Head nebula for its appearance in a wider field of view it now rises before the witching hour though. With spiky stars for eyes, the ghoulish apparition identified here seems to extend an arm toward Orion’s hot supergiant star. The source of illumination for IC 2118, Rigel is just beyond this frame at the upper left. via NASA

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