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ii think there should be more about the space part of The Vast. itd be so fun

vast avatar who works at the UKSA and has made crazy discoveries about space that realistically Shouldn't be possible with current technology

Maybe a worker occasionally disappears for a little while and comes back Absolutely Terrified For Their Life and for some reason everyones pretty sure it's the avatar's fault but they've made the craziest discoveries and it'd be a huge loss to fire them so nobody says anything

This is the largest photomosaic ever assembled from Hubble Space Telescope image data. It is a panoramic view of our neighboring spiral Andromeda Galaxy. It consists of 600 overlapping frames assembled from observations made from July 2010 to December 2022. A cropped version of the mosaic, which is shown above, partially covers Andromeda's core and inner spiral arms. Also known as M31, the Andromeda Galaxy is 2.5 million light-years away, making it the closest large spiral galaxy to our own. Hubble's comprehensive, detailed data set extending across the Andromeda Galaxy will allow astronomers to make an unprecedented exploration of the mysteries of spiral galaxy structure and evolution.

Image Credit & Copyright: NASA, ESA, Hubble Mission, B. F. Williams (Univ Washington), Z. Chen (Univ Washington), L. C. Johnson (Northwestern), Processing; Joseph DePasquale (STScI), Hubble Space Telescope

Carl Sagan, Cosmos

Hilariously funny that they let the guy known for wandering off without warning to look at birds was allowed to do this

Lovers

if she didn’t want me causing shenanigans she wouldn’t have left her computer on!! see y’all later when this blog gets spirally!! >:}

hey lyra, we need you for a ritual attempt!!

ah, stars. alright. terrible timing though... right before April Fools day. I was hoping to do something as a prank.

i'll be gone for a few days. Make sure my partner doesn't get up to any shenanigans, alright everyone?

And now, for a Water Rating Special Feature:

The Lost Sea, Tennessee

About 20,000 years ago, a giant Pleistocene jaguar ventured into a small opening in the mountain foothills, but soon found that this cave was far bigger than it bargained for. It lost its way in the dark, winding passageways, wandering for several days before eventually falling to its death in a narrow crevice, leaving behind its bones and perfectly preserved paw prints for us to find thousands of years later.

This was the first, but not the only, record of those who ventured into Craighead Caverns. Pottery, weapons and jewelry from the Cherokee people have been found in rooms up to a mile from the entrance, dating back at least a thousand years. Later, the caverns were used as a refrigerator for storing food in the summer, as a mine, a mushroom farm, and even as a dance hall. All throughout its history, there were legends of a great underground lake somewhere inside the vast caves, but no one knew where.

This changed in 1905, when a 13-year old boy was exploring the cave. Three hundred feet below the surface, he crawled through a narrow tunnel, and found himself standing in an enormous, half-submerged chasm. It was so large, in fact, that his light illuminated nothing but water. He began to throw balls of mud in an attempt to find the walls of the cavern, but he only heard splashing in response.

We now know that this lake is about four and a half acres, making it the largest underground lake in North America and the second largest in the world. But that’s only on the surface.

Diving explorations have revealed that this lake is seemingly bottomless. Beneath the ethereal water lies a series of caverns so deep that no end has been found. Divers have mapped about 1,500 feet in depth in just one of the main passageways. One diver, descending into a previously unknown chamber with a sonar device, hugged the wall and took readings all around him. There was nothing but more water in every direction.

At present, there are no further plans to continue exploration, due to the hazardous conditions in the depths of the sea. It seems, then, that the true scope of this lake may forever remain a mystery. Perhaps it is best that we leave alone this strange, bottomless abyss far beneath the ancient Appalachian mountains, to remain as dark and unknown as it was when that jaguar took its first ill-fated steps inside.

NGC 6744, Great Spiral