Crazy Blue/Purple Fluorite On Calcite

*me on ellen*

ellen: so i hear u like spyro the dragon

me: yeah i guess u could say i’m a bit of a fan

*everyone in the audience turns to crystal*

me: omg ellen u didn’t

High Intensity Aurora Borealis over Norway

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A new neutron star merger is caught on X-ray camera

Two stellar remnants smashed together in a galaxy more than 6 billion light-years away, forming a single monster magnetic star.

In October 2017, astronomers announced the first detection of gravitational waves from the merger of two neutron stars earlier that year. The event also rung in the era of multi-messenger astronomy, as more than 70 telescopes observed the event’s afterglow in optical light, X-rays, gamma rays, and more. Now, an X-ray signal dubbed XT2 from a galaxy 6.6 billion light-years away has revealed another neutron star merger, which left behind a single, heavier neutron star with an incredibly powerful magnetic field: a magnetar.

Read more ~ astronomy.com

Image: Chandra observations show the flare-up and subsequent dimming of XT2, which matches predictions for the signal from a pair of merging neutron stars and the birth of a magnetar. Credit: X-ray: NASA/CXC/Uni. of Science and Technology of China/Y. Xue et al; Optical: NASA/STScI

Petition to put James Veitch on the pedestal he deserves, next to Brian David Gilbert, John Mulaney and Bo Burnham on the chart of Skinny Twinkish Chaos Elementals who are Doing Their Best.

Planetary Comparison No. 1 Looks like Earth, Venus, Mars, Mercury and the Moon #hubble #space #planet #universe #nasa #astronomy #galaxy #milkyway #spacephotography #astronomyart #astrophotography #photo #night #cosmos #universe #nightsky #FriendofTrodLightly — view on Instagram http://ift.tt/2IwEqyx

They both make magic.

Esse é o Objeto de Hoag, uma galáxia curiosa do tipo anelar: seu núcleo é rodeado por um anel de estrelas, gás e poeira. Sua origem é um mistério, pois galáxias anelares são formadas quando uma galáxia atravessa a outra. Nesse caso não há nenhuma galáxia nas imediações que possa ter feito isso. . This is the Hoag’s Object, a curious galaxy in the the shape of a ring: its nucleus is surrounded by a ring of stars, gas and dust. Its origins remains a mystery, as other ring galaxies are formed when one galaxy passes through another galaxy. In this case, there is no candidate for the bullet galaxy in the vicinity. . Credit: NASA . #nasa #hubble #hubblespacetelescope #telescope #telescopio #astronomia #astronomy #ring #anel #galaxy #galaxia #space #espaço #mistery #misterio #hoag #astrogram #observatoriog1 #bullet #alvo #target

Productive Things That Aren’t Studying

washing the dishes

making your bed

tidying your book/dvd shelf/shelves

cleaning the cupboard/wardrobe

reading

sleeping

writing a blog

planning your month/week/day

replying to messages or asks

responding to emails

sorting through letters/mail

clearing your email inbox

organising stationery

clean your sinks

clean your toilets

pet your pet

sort through old clothes

give to charity

go on a walk

go on a run

clean down any surfaces

work out

meal prep

get rid of empty shampoo bottles from the shower

clean out old food from the cupboard/fridge

empty out your school bag

call your parent

unfriend/unfollow people you no longer interact with

watch a TEDTalk

empty the bins/trash

clean the mirrors in your house

hug your pet

wash some clothes

buy any birthday cards/presents that you need to

reply to any old texts

make a tumblr post on productive things that aren’t studying

Disclaimer: As always, this is a guide on how I like to study maths and how I did well in final exams- but of course doesn’t work for everyone! These are only suggestions. ´･ᴗ･`

Mindset- A lot of people dislike maths and a big reason (from experience) is that people believe that it is too hard/ don’t understand. The great thing with maths that is different to subjective classes like English- if you know all of your concepts and formulae, you WILL do well. Your mind will help you pull through. Maths in honestly not that difficult. Everything that is hard is really just the concepts you know, in a more creative way.

The Mistake Palm card- Any silly errors you make- put down onto a palm card in terms of topic. For example, on my “Sketching graphs” topic, a mistake I make is not marking the point of inflexion. Things like not forgetting to mark your axes, label a point etc. go here.

The Mistake Word document- your mistakes from practice tests, exams at school and questions you don’t know how to solve initially all go on this. Scan/ take a photo and dump it into Word. This is for you to go over a few months later (or before your test) to make sure you know how to do the question! Mine ended up being 20+ for my HSC exam and it definitely helped!

Formulae Palm card- Same as the mistakes palm card, just dump all your formulae and you can carry it around in your pocket to read on the train or wherever you go.

Practice!- Practice papers are the most important thing. Exercises from your textbook are great, but you have to do past papers more so. This is to get familiar with format, tricky questions that could be asked and how fast you can do one.

Study depth, not breadth- Doing question after question from the textbook is not smart studying. A lot of those questions are the same thing but with different numbers so you’re not really giving yourself benefit of different formats. A lot of people saying they “study a lot” when they do this but you have to expose yourself to different kinds of questions. Know when to skip questions if you get the concept and to repeat if you don’t understand.

Timed Conditions- Practice papers under timed conditions are great at home. Aim to do the whole paper in 80-90% of the time to make sure you have time to check in tests! However in Australia, the HSC exam is 3 hours for mathematics when it only takes 1- 1.5 hours to complete- if you’re at home and you finish checking before time is up- just mark it. You’re wasting time by waiting for 3 hours when you could do two more tests in that time.

Don’t Repeat Papers- Don’t repeat papers! Repeat the questions you got wrong. This is because you’ve seen the questions before, and you know what to do. Try to find more practice papers on the internet instead.

I hope this helped anyone who does Mathematics- this probably works best with HSC since I don’t really know how overseas exams work. Thank you!!

Jade

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