Minerva Mcgonagall Took Four Stunning Spells To The Chest And Was Still Ready To Kick Some Ass Like Could

cute date idea: we sit by the river and watch the sky. you talk about the universe and I can’t help but grin at the fact your eyes shine brighter than the sun rising in the background. you are my universe. i want to love you forever.

Net Neutrality

Net neutrality. I'm sure you've heard those powerful words before, but you may not know what they mean. Basically, net neutrality ensures that you have equal access to the internet, and that your service provider cannot make one site slower, or block a site all together. Without net neutrality, you'll be seeing a lot more loading signs and a lot less of what you want. Click the link below for more information, and to write a comment to the FCC about why net neutrality needs to stay! https://www.savetheinternet.com/net-neutrality-what-you-need-know-now

Ron: I like your pants.

Hermione: Thanks. They were 50% off.

Ron: I'd like them 100% off.

Hermione: The store can't just sell free stuff.

Ron: That's not what I-

Hermione: That's a terrible way to run a business, Ronald.

Let Us See Jupiter Through Your Eyes

Our Juno spacecraft will fly over Jupiter’s Great Red Spot on July 10 at 10:06 p.m. EDT. This will be humanity’s first up-close and personal view of the gas giant’s iconic 10,000-mile-wide storm, which has been monitored since 1830 and possibly existing for more than 350 years.

The data collection of the Great Red Spot is part of Juno’s sixth science flyby over Jupiter’s mysterious cloud tops. Perijove (the point at which an orbit comes closest to Jupiter’s center) will be July 10 at 9:55 p.m. EDT. 

At the time of perijove, Juno will be about 2,200 miles above the planet’s cloud tops. Eleven minutes and 33 seconds later…Juno will have covered another 24,713 miles and will be directly above the coiling crimson cloud tops of the Great Red Spot. The spacecraft will pass about 5,600 miles above its clouds. 

When will we see images from this flyby?

During the flyby, all eight of the spacecraft’s instruments will be turned on, as well as its imager, JunoCam. Because the spacecraft will be collecting data with its Microwave Radiometer (MWR), which measures radio waves from Jupiter’s deep atmosphere, we cannot downlink information during the pass. The MWR can tell us how much water there is and how material is moving far below the cloud tops.

During the pass, all data will be stored on-board…with a downlink planned afterwards. Once the downlink begins, engineering data from the spacecraft’s instruments will come to Earth first, followed by images from JunoCam.

The unprocessed, raw images will be located HERE, on approximately July 14. Follow @NASAJuno on Twitter for updates.

Did you know you can download and process these raw images?

We invite the public to act as a virtual imaging team…participating in key steps of the process, from identifying features of interest to sharing the finished images online. After JunoCam data arrives on Earth, members of the public can process the images to create color pictures. The public also helps determine which points on the planet will be photographed. Learn more about voting on JunoCam’s next target HERE.

JunoCam has four filters: red, green, blue and near-infrared. We get red, green and blue strips on one spacecraft rotation (the spacecraft rotation rate is 2 revolutions per minute) and the near-infrared strips on the second rotation. To get the final image product, the strips must be stitched together and the colors lined up.

Anything from cropping to color enhancing to collaging is fair game. Be creative!

Submit your images to Juno_outreach@jpl.nasa.gov to be featured on the Mission Juno website!

Check out some of these citizen-scientist processed images from previous Juno orbits: 

Credit: Sean Doran (More)

Credit: Amelia Carolina (More)

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Credit: Jason Major (More)

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if you ever feel left out just remember that you weren’t the fifth gryffindor guy in the marauders’ dormitory

I respect your choice, even if it breaks my heart. I will never run after you or beg you to do something you don’t want to. Because that’s how much I love you. To choose your happiness over mine. I won’t be selfish with you. Forced love is not true love.

F.F. // While I’m moving on.. #2 (via myunpredictableuniverse)

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