When Apollo 11 Successfully Landed And The Images Were Released, ‘The Sun’ Newspaper In Vancouver

I’m glad that Indiana finally has its first national park and that it’s the one mostly known for having sand dunes that eat children.

“I’m not afraid of death, but I’m in no hurry to die. I have so much I want to do first.”

And he did so much. He became an evershining star for humankind to look up to. Rest in peace.

Time And Space

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An example of crown flashes, also called jumping sun dogs. They’re streamers of light above storm clouds that appear to dance and flash, sometimes quite rapidly, looking like search lights or huge light sabers.

They’re almost certainly caused by long ice crystals above the cloud that align themselves with the cloud’s electric field. If you see them from the right angle, they bend (or refract) the sunlight toward you, causing the glow. 

When lightning erupts from the cloud to the ground (or inside the cloud) the electric field changes radically, realigning the ice crystals. When this happens they suddenly bend sunlight in a different direction, causing the glow to shift. (Source)

Hubble just spotted an enormous bubble in space

A series of images taken by Hubble shows a star blowing a massive bubble in space. Nicknamed the “Bubble Nebula,” it spans about 7 light-years across. The star creating the bubble is about 45 times the mass of our sun. Here’s why the bubble is forming.

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the fact elon mask genuinely might ruin the night sky for everyone makes me wanna sharpen my shovel and get to work

dude.