I Want To Be A Fairytale Ending.

Hayabusa2: Wide-angle navigational images of asteroid Ryugu, taken today as the probe descended temporarily to just 5km from the asteroid’s surface. These were originally posted to the probe’s Twitter feed.

This year’s winners of Nobel Prize for Physics includes a woman! 🎉🎊

Her name is Donna Strickland. Together with Arthur Ashkin, and Gérard Mourou, they are awarded the Nobel Prize “for their groundbreaking inventions in the field of laser physics” which help open up doors for potential research in biomedical physics.

[The announcement comes one day after a senior scientist with Cern, the academic home to a number of Nobel prize winners, was suspended for saying that physics was invented and built by men.

“We need to celebrate women physicists because we’re out there. I’m honored to be one of those women,” Strickland said in a news conference following the announcement in Stockholm.

Speaking about being the third woman to ever win the award, she said she thought there might have been more, adding: “Hopefully in time it will start to move forward at a faster rate.”]

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NGC 3372, Dusty Carina 

Carina nebula [ 564 x 888]

I want to be taking notes. 

(via Hometalk)

Close-up of M27, the Dumbbell Nebula

Credit: NASA/ESA, Hubble

Seeing Titan : Shrouded in a thick atmosphere, Saturn’s largest moon Titan really is hard to see. Small particles suspended in the upper atmosphere cause an almost impenetrable haze, strongly scattering light at visible wavelengths and hiding Titan’s surface features from prying eyes. But Titan’s surface is better imaged at infrared wavelengths where scattering is weaker and atmospheric absorption is reduced. Arrayed around this centered visible light image of Titan are some of the clearest global infrared views of the tantalizing moon so far. In false color, the six panels present a consistent processing of 13 years of infrared image data from the Visual and Infrared Mapping Spectrometer (VIMS) on board the Cassini spacecraft. They offer a stunning comparison with Cassini’s visible light view. via NASA

Every. Damn. Time. 🙄🤦🏻‍♀️

my gym coach: and now, plank

me: hoe don't do it

my brain: planck's constant, 6.63 x 10-34 m2kg/s

me: oh my god

Elliptical Galaxy NGC 4696

read more at APOD/NASA; credit: NASA, ESA, Hubble, A. Fabian