Thursday, October 12.
Wee guy got vaporised
We're afraid we've some bad news. There's no easy way of saying this, so we'll give it to you straight: wee guy has been vaporised. He was 69 (nice)
It is hard, we know. But it be like that sometimes. Life is all about comings and goings, meetings and partings, and the occasional vaporisation. Come pay your respects to wee guy, and enjoy other #street photographs on Tumblr today.
And tell us, prey: do you care?
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Pinned Intro
Mireyah K. Wolfe (she/they/he) is a writer and photographer living in the swamps of Central Florida.
They are a pierced, tattooed, disabled queer of Irish-Boricua heritage with a deep and abiding love of pigeons, much to the dismay of her dog and two cats.
She is a member of the One Big Uwunion, and no, you cannot stop him from calling it that.
I am a disabled and otherwise unemployed queer with very limited income and too many bills, so I can always use more support! If you'd like to help me support myself via my creative endeavors, the options to do so are the following:
You can find my photography prints (landscapes + wildlife) HERE and my writing & art exploits over HERE.
Socials, wishlists, and support options can all be found HERE.
And if you wanna skip to direct donations:
PayPal | (link)
Venmo | (dovesndecay)
Cashapp | ($dovesndecay)
Or even the tip function via this post, if you feel comfortable using that.
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Space is a Dusty Place!
Butterfly Nebula
When you look at pictures of space, do you know what you’re actually seeing? A lot of the time the answer is dust!
HII region seen by Chandra X-ray Observatory
Clouds of dust drift through our galaxy. Telescopes can take pictures of these clouds when stars light them up. Who knew dust could be so beautiful? But it’s more than just pretty – we can learn a lot from it, too!
Stars like our Sun are born in dust clouds. Over time, leftover dust clumps together to help form planets. That makes it a little less dusty.
At certain times of the year, a band of sun-reflecting dust from the inner Solar System appears prominently just after sunset -- or just before sunrise -- and is called zodiacal light.
Credit: Ruslan Merzlyakov/astrorms
But later, objects like comets and asteroids can create new dust by breaking up into tiny rocks. In our solar system, these rocky grains are called zodiacal dust. That’s because it’s mostly visible near the constellations of the zodiac. We can see the hazy glow it creates just after sunset or shortly before dawn sometimes, like in the picture above.
Around other stars, it’s called exozodiacal dust. Try saying that five times fast! It makes it hazy there too, so it can be hard to see distant planets.
Our Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope will be really good at seeing how much of this dust is swirling around nearby stars. That will help future telescopes know the best places to look to find planets like Earth!
Roman will also see more distant objects. It will peer inside dust clouds where new stars are bursting into life. That will help our James Webb Space Telescope know where to look to find baby planets. Webb can zoom in for a more detailed look at these young worlds by seeing how they filter their host star’s light.
Roman will see huge patches of the sky – much bigger than our Hubble and Webb telescopes can see. These missions will team up to explore all kinds of cosmic mysteries!
Learn more about the exciting science Roman will investigate on Twitter and Facebook.
Make sure to follow us on Tumblr for your regular dose of space!
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