#Cosmos Creation

[the-wolf-and-moon]

Pillars of Creation

[noisyexpertobject]

A Curious Case for Cats

Are you a dog person or a cat person? No need to choose. Join me as I lay out the virtues of pet caregiving, topped off by a video dedicated to my former cat, Emily Dickinson, who inspired some precious life lessons that I still nurture today.

During my mid-30s, I shared seven years of my life taking care of, and all-around adoring, a jet black cat called Emily Dickinson. My smart, funny, and ravishingly beautiful fur companion taught me how to navigate the divide between mind and heart, past and present, helping me reconcile the knots of thoughts and emotions that arise when discovering oneself reflected anew through the eyes of…

[yocalio]

"We grieve those we have lost by continuing their fight." - Mariko

[ratgingi]

big ol dandy worl dump. happy hollowed ween

[rthwrms]

"First-- Nothing. Just still Deepwaters, & quiet, & darkness. Then, suddenly, a great bird breaks Height and drowns in Depth, becoming nutrients, for in her stomach held is a single seed: Oris, the Roots of what is to become the very essence of our world."

-- excerpt from the Orisian Cosmic Hymn, trans. Et. Longmaul (354PR)

& thus begins the Creation Myth of Yuwen, paired with two metaphorical "maps" of before and during this event, as depicted in a series of drawings by Pre-Rending Galmerean artist Winkle Featherspit, which was initially penned to paper in 232NE as a part of a devotional to the major divinity Mirae.

Few complete reconstructions of these maps still exist today, leaving one to wonder what other great works of Yuwenic history have been lost to the waters of time?

[tricksymewtini]

WOOHOO LPSF IS HEREEE

higher quality vers. under the cut >_<

[cosmicexplorersblog]

Pillars of creation

The Pillars of Creation were first made famous when NASA's Hubble Space Telescope captured an image of them in 1995. These pillars appear like rock formations – three towers of gas and dust which are more permeable than they look. The Pillars of Creation are part of the Eagle Nebula, also known as Messier 16.Some 7,000 light-years from Earth are gigantic cosmic columns of dust and gas. Because new stars are coalescing there, the formation is known as the Pillars of Creation

[livingforstars]

From Eagle's EGGs A Star Is Born - January 19th, 1997.

"Perhaps one of the most famous astronomical images reveals newborn stars upon pillars of gas and dust - uncovered as researchers used the Hubble Space Telescope to explore the Eagle Nebula in 1995. This stunning picture provides a first-hand glimpse of star birth as evaporating gaseous globules (EGGs) are captured emerging from pillars of molecular hydrogen gas and dust. These pillars, dubbed "elephant trunks," are light-years in length and are so dense that interior gas gravitationally contracts to form stars. At each pillars' end, the intense radiation of bright young stars causes low density gas to boil away, leaving stellar nurseries of dense EGGs exposed."

[the-captain-and-his-suga]

A Glimpse Into Stellar Birth

The Pillars of Creation in the Eagle Nebula taken by the Hubble Space Telescope in 1995.

The Pillars of Creation is one of the most famous images captured by the Hubble Space Telescope. It shows towering columns of gas and dust within the Eagle Nebula (also known as M16), located about 6,500 light-years away from Earth in the constellation Serpens.

The Pillars of Creation were formed from dense clouds of gas and dust. These clouds are the raw material for new stars. Intense radiation and stellar winds from nearby young, hot stars compress the gas, causing it to collapse and form new stars. As these stars shine brightly, their powerful radiation erodes and shapes the surrounding gas, creating the iconic column-like structures. This process of star birth and destruction continues to shape the pillars. Though we observe them as they were 6,500 years ago, the structures may have already changed or been destroyed by now.

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FUN FACTS:

The name "Pillars of Creation" was given because the columns seem to resemble fingers reaching out, suggesting the "creation" of stars in these regions.

The Pillars are just a small part of the much larger Eagle Nebula, which spans about 4,000 light-years across.

The dark regions in the pillars are dense clumps of gas and dust where new stars are being born. These regions are difficult to see in visible light but are revealed in infrared wavelengths.

[cosmoisartist]

omg wait here's dabi... :)

[the-wolf-and-moon]

Pillars of Creation

[chauokun]

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[yocalio]

"Mariko-san?"At once fingers reached up in the darkness and touched his lips, cautioning silence. He nodded, understanding the awful risk they were taking. - Shōgun by James Clavell

[adrianl4u]

Visible vs Infrared These are the "Pillars of Creation" seen by Hubble, in visible light (on the left) and in infrared light by the James Webb Space Telescope, on the right!

[inspirehorizon]

A radiant whirl beneath the vast sky's curl

[noosphe-re]

... they [cosmic forces] move in masses, waves, currents constantly constituting and reconstituting beings and objects, movements and happenings, entering into them, passing through them, forming themselves in them, throwing themselves out from them on other beings and objects. Each natural individual is a receptacle of these cosmic forces and a dynamo for their propagation; there passes from each to each a constant stream of mental and vital energies, and these run too in cosmic waves and currents no less than the forces of physical Nature. All this action is veiled from our surface mind's direct sense and knowledge, but it is known and felt by the inner being, though only through a direct contact; when the being enters into the cosmic consciousness, it is still more widely, inclusively, intimately aware of this play of cosmic forces.

Sri Aurobindo, The Hidden Forces of Life, compiled by A.S. Dalal