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warandpeas · 9 months

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#alien #aliens #comic #comic strip #comics #Comicstrip #earth #elizabeth pich #funny #hold it #jonathan kunz #light years #pee #planet earth #Rest Stop #ufo #war and peas #webcomic

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todays-xkcd · 2 months

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When Pope Gregory XIII briefly shortened the light-year in 1582, it led to navigational chaos and the loss of several Papal starships.

Light Leap Years [Explained]

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[Cueball is sitting at his laptop and leaning to the back of his office chair, while having his other hand on the laptop. He is looking at Ponytail standing behind him. The text from the laptop screen is shown above it, indicated with a zigzag line.] Cueball: It took until February, but I finally got all the distances updated! Ponytail: I really wish we didn't have to do this.

[Laptop screen:] Proxima Centauri Distance: [in red, crossed out] 4.2493 ly [in green] 4.2377 ly

[Caption below the panel:] Astronomers hate leap years because they make light-years 0.27% longer.

#xkcd #xkcd 2897 #light leap years #webcomics #astronomy #leap years #time #light years

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bigrobotbee · 9 months

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How to see dinosaurs:

1.) Travel 66 million light years away from Earth.

2.) Look at Earth through a telescope.

3.) Dinosaurs.

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thefirststarr · 8 months

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These cosmic clouds can be found 1,300 light-years away in the constellation of Cepheus and is called the Iris Nebula (NGC 7023). This deep telescopic image shows off the Iris Nebula's range of colors and symmetries embedded in surrounding fields of interstellar dust. Within the Iris itself, dusty nebular material surrounds a hot, young star. The dominant color of the reflection nebula is blue, which is because of dust grains reflecting starlight. Central filaments of the reflection nebula glow with a faint reddish photoluminescence as some dust grains convert the star's invisible ultraviolet radiation to visible red light. Infrared observations indicate that this nebula contains complex carbon molecules known as PAHs. People tend to say that this nebula reminds them of a flower, so it’s dusty blue ‘petals’ span about six light-years.

Image Credit & Copyright: Lorand Fenyes

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i-should-be-so-lucky · 9 months

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Kylie Minogue during the On A Night Like This Tour , 2001

#kylie minogue #the one and only kylie #kylie #2000s #photography #2001 #Y2K #Y2Kylie #On a night like this tour #light Years

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ton-618-ton-618 · 7 days

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2024 April 19

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The Great Carina Nebula

Image Credit & Copyright: Demison Lopes

Explanation: A jewel of the southern sky, the Great Carina Nebula is more modestly known as NGC 3372. One of our Galaxy's largest star forming regions, it spans over 300 light-years. Like the smaller, more northerly Great Orion Nebula, the Carina Nebula is easily visible to the unaided eye. But at a distance of 7,500 light-years it lies some 5 times farther away. This stunning telescopic view reveals remarkable details of the region's glowing filaments of interstellar gas and obscuring cosmic dust clouds. The Carina Nebula is home to young, extremely massive stars, including the still enigmatic variable Eta Carinae, a star with well over 100 times the mass of the Sun. Eta Carinae is the bright star above the central dark notch in this field and left of the dusty Keyhole Nebula (NGC 3324).

#astronaut #astronomers #not astrology #star #stars #art #astronomy #outer space #space #NGC #NEBULA #NASA #CARINA nebula #light years #sun

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music-catalogue · 4 months

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#please stay #kylie minogue #light years #music tumblr #pop music #music recommendation #musicblr #musicislife #good music #music #spotify #music blog #music lovers #Spotify

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planetaryalphabet · 5 months

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Check out the video at the link to travel nearly 180 million light year to see the Taffy Galaxies…

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#taffy galaxies #light years #Astro.voyagers #Instagram

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euphorictruths · 1 year

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M81 (Bode's Galaxy) & M82 (Starburst Galaxy)

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thepoetsdiedatthislake · 8 months

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James: I don't care how many lightyears it will take, I will wait for you to love me.

Regulus: You measure distances with lightyears.

James: You're one to know about distance, aren't you?

Regulus: .....

Regulus: shut your mouth, pretty boy.

James: * screaming and jumping around* HE CALLED ME PRETTY BITCHES! YEAH YOU HEARD THAT RIGHT HATERS! HATERS GONNA HATE TAYLOR SWIFT SLWAYS RIGHT SHAKE IT OFF PERIOD.

Regulus: what the actual fu-

#marauders era #marauders headcanon #regulus black #james potter #jegulus #starchaser #sunseeker #commitment #Issues #distance #light years

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whatareyoureallyafraidof · 2 years

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The Pillars of Creation - 6,500+ light years from Earth. Taken by the James Webb Space Telescope.

#The Pillars of Creation #Pillars of Creation #James Webb Space Telescope #JWST #space #science #NASA #telescope #exploration #explore #Earth #light year #light years #creation

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myhughniverse · 5 days

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Kylie Minogue - via social media - "Take us to the pop stars on the moon …🌙"

#Kylie Minogue #Light Years #Las Vegas #The One and Only Kylie

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thefirststarr · 4 months

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SPACEMAS DAY 22 ✨🪐🌎☄️☀️🌕

This floating ring is a galaxy, or at least part of one. This is the photogenic Sombrero Galaxy, one of the largest galaxies in the nearby Virgo Cluster of Galaxies. Typically, there’s a dark band of dust that obscures the mid-section of the Sombrero Galaxy in optical light. But in infrared light, it actually glows brightly. The featured image, digitally sharpened, shows this infrared glow. It was recorded by the orbiting Spitzer Space Telescope and then superposed in false-color on an existing image taken by NASA's Hubble Space Telescope in visible light. The Sombrero Galaxy, also known as M104, spans about 50,000 light years across and lies 28 million light years away. M104 can be seen with a small telescope in the direction of the constellation Virgo.

Image Credit & Copyright: R. Kennicutt (Steward Obs.) et al., SSC, JPL, Caltech, NASA