we-are-astronomer - Tumblr blog

[we-are-astronomer]

WAKE THE FUCK UP LOSERS, NASA DROPPED A SYSTEM AGNOSTIC TTRPG ADVENTURE AND IT'S DOPE

[we-are-astronomer]

Halley's Comet, May 13, 1910. Populare Astronomie. 1922.

Internet Archive

[we-are-astronomer]

The asteroid belt. This wonderful universe. 1920.

Internet Archive

[we-are-astronomer]

Flaming Star Nebula by David Joyce

[we-are-astronomer]

This color image, produced from a distance of about 16 million kilometers, shows several complex and puzzling atmospheric features. Credit: NASA/JPL

[we-are-astronomer]

Earth's orbit around the Sun. New physiography for beginners. 1927.

Internet Archive

[we-are-astronomer]

The solar system. Comets and meteors. 1873. Frontispiece.

Internet Archive

[we-are-astronomer]

With NASA announcing their streaming service NASA+ and also announcing it’s going to be free and also ad free, I’d just like to appreciate the lengths they go to make scientific knowledge and exploration as available as they possibly can.

[we-are-astronomer]

[we-are-astronomer]

Everyone go and make sure you do this as soon as fucking possible. Scary times are upon us.

its official: tumblr is selling our data to Midjourney

we'd been hearing rumors about this for a bit but now its open and out there. some details from this article

it goes without saying, but if @staff goes through with this its going to be an utter shitshow and im all but certain the website will not survive it.

[we-are-astronomer]

3 decorated desserts.... this is doable. Accepted.

Just gotta get decorating stuff.

⚜️ Quests of the New Year ⚜️

If like me, you find New Year's resolutions to be a tedium, in place of a New Year Resolution, you may now ask that a Quest be bestowed upon you, for you to complete ere the arrival of the next year (so, in 2023, before 2024).

You may set parameters to exclude or include certain requests ("I want my Quest to be focused on my Art and Writing"), and the Quest must be something achievable within a realistic context ("Become a billionaire" is not feasible), nor can it be something malicious or harmful ("Hurt so-and-so"). Set your parameters in your tags, so people accepting the request may grant you a proper Quest.

Other than this, there is no limit upon your Quest. It may be something small, or great. It may be a physical feat, or an artistic and academic accomplishment. It may be a personal goal, or something for other people.

You can undertake only One (1) Quest at a time, to make it more realistic and achievable. After all: the Quest is a matter of grave import to any errant knight!

The rules for accepting a Quest, and of issuing:

This is a matter of reblogging: you may reblog and assign to the person you reblogged from, their Quest. If you have multiple reblogs, you may declare which you wish to accept, but preference should be given to the first issued response, for a knight is not idle!

Have fun, everyone! ⚔️🛡️⚜️

[we-are-astronomer]

HELIOPOTENT 

[adjective] 

possessing the power of the sun; solar power. 

Etymology: from Greek hēlios, “sun” + from Latin potens, “powerful, strong, potent”, present participle of posse, ‎“to be able”, from potis, “able, powerful, originally a lord, master”.

[Julie Dillon - Sun Shepherdess]

[we-are-astronomer]

starboba

it doesn’t fit through the straw though.

[we-are-astronomer]

⚜️ Quests of the New Year ⚜️

If like me, you find New Year's resolutions to be a tedium, in place of a New Year Resolution, you may now ask that a Quest be bestowed upon you, for you to complete ere the arrival of the next year (so, in 2023, before 2024).

You may set parameters to exclude or include certain requests ("I want my Quest to be focused on my Art and Writing"), and the Quest must be something achievable within a realistic context ("Become a billionaire" is not feasible), nor can it be something malicious or harmful ("Hurt so-and-so"). Set your parameters in your tags, so people accepting the request may grant you a proper Quest.

Other than this, there is no limit upon your Quest. It may be something small, or great. It may be a physical feat, or an artistic and academic accomplishment. It may be a personal goal, or something for other people.

You can undertake only One (1) Quest at a time, to make it more realistic and achievable. After all: the Quest is a matter of grave import to any errant knight!

The rules for accepting a Quest, and of issuing:

This is a matter of reblogging: you may reblog and assign to the person you reblogged from, their Quest. If you have multiple reblogs, you may declare which you wish to accept, but preference should be given to the first issued response, for a knight is not idle!

Have fun, everyone! ⚔️🛡️⚜️

[we-are-astronomer]

With NASA announcing their streaming service NASA+ and also announcing it’s going to be free and also ad free, I’d just like to appreciate the lengths they go to make scientific knowledge and exploration as available as they possibly can.

[we-are-astronomer]

Pumpkin space latte, anyone? ☕

Hubble captured this festive array of stars, Terzan 12, found in the Milky Way about 15,000 light-years from Earth. The stars in this cluster are bound together by gravity in a sphere-like shape and are shrouded in gas and dust. As the starlight travels through that gas and dust to Earth, blue light scatters, leaving the redder wavelengths to come through.

Download the full-resolution image here.

Make sure to follow us on Tumblr for your regular dose of space!

[we-are-astronomer]

With October just around the corner, NASA has released its latest Galaxy of Horrors posters. Presented in the style of vintage horror movie advertisements. As fun and creative as all three posters are, they're based on real phenomena. 🎃

Can you hear this exoplanet screaming?

As HD 80606 b approaches its star from an extreme, elliptical orbit, it suffers star-grazing torture that causes howling, supersonic winds and shockwave storms across the planet. Its torturous journey boils its atmosphere to a hellish 2,000 degrees Fahrenheit every 111 days, roasting both its light and dark sides. HD 80606b will never escape this scorching nightmare.

This bone-chilling force will leave you shivering alone in terror!

An unseen power is prowling throughout the cosmos, driving the universe to expand at a quickening rate. This relentless pressure, called dark energy, is nothing like dark matter, that mysterious material only revealed by its gravitational pull. Dark energy offers a bigger fright: pushing galaxies farther apart over trillions of years, leaving the universe to an inescapable, freezing death in the pitch black expanse of outer space.​

Cygnus X-1 Presents:

It’s Dinner Time and You’re The Meal!

Lurking in our galaxy, approximately 6,000 light-years from Earth, is a monster named CygnusX-1. This black hole, which has about 14.8 times the mass of our Sun, will stretch and squeeze anything it captures in its immense gravity. Cygnus X-1 is waiting, snacking on its neighboring star. Don’t get too close, or you’ll become its next meal!

This chillingly haunted galaxy mysteriously stopped making stars only a few billion years after the Big Bang! It became a cosmic cemetery, illuminated by the red glow of decaying stars. Dare to enter, and you might encounter the frightening corpses of exoplanets or the final death throes of once-mighty stars.

Something strange and mysterious creeps throughout the cosmos. Scientists call it dark matter. It is scattered in an intricate web that forms the skeleton of our universe. Dark matter is invisible, only revealing its presence by pushing and pulling on objects we can see. NASA’s Roman Space Telescope will investigate its secrets. What will be revealed?

In the depths of the universe, the cores of two collapsed stars violently merge to release a burst of the deadliest and most powerful form of light, known as gamma rays. These beams of doom are unleashed upon their unfortunate surroundings, shining a million trillion times brighter than the Sun for up to 30 terrifying seconds. No spaceship will shield you from the blinding destruction of the gamma ray ghouls!

These doomed worlds were among the first and creepiest to be discovered as they orbit an undead star known as a pulsar. Pulsar planets like Poltergeist and its neighboring worlds, Phobetor and Draugr, are consumed with constant radiation from the star’s core. Nothing but the undead can subsist in this most inhospitable corner of the galaxy.

This far-off blue planet may look like a friendly haven – but don’t be deceived! Weather here is deadly. The planet’s cobalt blue color comes from a hazy, blow-torched atmosphere containing clouds laced with glass. Howling winds send the storming glass sideways at 5,400 mph (2km/s), whipping all in a sickening spiral. It’s death by a million cuts on this slasher planet!