The Rosette And OO-1 Nebulae © Astrofalls

I‘m still figuring out how the anonymous notes work.

I am unsure whether we are acquainted, but I appreciate your kindness “🦌“ person.

Desigur, sunt darnic să te ajut. Zvonurile pot fi doar zvonuri, dar cel mai bine este să ai grijă. Sunt din România, da, dar sunt un spirit liber si îmi place sa bântui prin diverse țări, fără să stau mai mult într-un anumit loc. Rar se găsesc de-ai noștri pe-aici într-adevăr. Pe lângă subiect, vreau să îți zic că Adam este o persoană foarte mișto și că sunt de părere că te-ai înțelege tare bine cu el. Ca de obicei, mult noroc

-🦌

[Ooc: your translator is working just fine, don't worry!! I translate my messages cause I'm prone to using slang or wording things in a way that a translator wouldn't exactly understand or would misinterpret. Translation: Of course, I wish to help you. Rumours can be just rumours, but it's best to be careful. I am from Romania, yes, but I'm a free spirit, and I like haunting around different countries without staying too much in one place. You rarely find our kind around here, indeed. By the way, I wanna tell you that Adam is a really cool person and I think that you would get along splendidly. As always, good luck]

E tare fain să întâlnesc un alt român! Și chiar înțeleg dorința de a vedea lumea, chiar dacă uneori Statele Unite sunt de-a dreptul nașpa. Nu găsești mâncare românească decentă pe aici. Mai stai în Europa?

Da, Adam pare super fain până acum. Și frumos, dar o să vedem ce o să fie. Nu cred că se gândește la mine așa, mai ales că abia ne-am cunoscut. Mersi din nou pentru tot.

This you?

That’s not me. It’s an alien plushie.

Are you genuinely curious, or is this just a joke?

Earth just temporarily captured a small asteroid (2024 PT5) that orbited us for a couple of months. It’s not a permanent moon, though. The only real moon we have is still the one we always see.

Still, it’s interesting to think about how objects from space can come so close, even if just for a short time. The asteroid is back on its regular path now.

It’s rare for something like this to happen. I wonder how many other near-Earth objects we haven’t noticed yet!

Total Solar Eclipse l April 2024 l U.S. & Canada

Cr. Deran Hall l Rami Ammoun(236) l GabeWasylko l REUTERS l KendallRust l Joshua Intini l Alfredo Juárez l KuzcoKhanda

hi adam! i hope you’re well :) i just got a late diagnosis of autism (i’m 23!) and i was wondering if you had any advice for self care and such after a diagnosis? i’m totally comfortable with who i am and how my brain works, it’s still just lots to process !!

Hello. First of all, congratulations on your diagnosis. I assume that might seem like an odd thing to say, but I mean it sincerely—understanding yourself better is always a good thing, even if it takes time to process.

I know it did for me.

I was diagnosed early in childhood, so I can’t speak to the exact experience of learning this about yourself as an adult. But I do understand what it’s like to examine yourself through a new lens and to realize that the way you interact with the world—things you may have once thought were simply personal quirks or unexplained difficulties—actually has a name. It can be both validating and overwhelming.

You say you’re comfortable with who you are, which is already more than many people can say. But if I had any advice, it would be this: be patient with yourself. It’s easy to look back on past experiences and wonder how differently things could have gone had you known then what you know now. But you were always you, diagnosis or not. That hasn’t changed—only your understanding has. The most important thing is using that understanding to advocate for yourself, to make your life easier where possible rather than forcing yourself into spaces or habits that were never designed for you in the first place.

Practically speaking, self-care depends on what you need. If sensory issues are something you struggle with, don’t ignore them—accommodate them in whatever ways you can. If you experience burnout, learn to recognize the signs before it happens and give yourself time to recover. If you mask heavily in social situations, make sure you also allow yourself environments where you don’t have to. The world doesn’t always adapt to us, so we have to be intentional about carving out spaces where we can exist comfortably as ourselves.

Most of all, remember that there is no ‘correct’ way to process something like this. No rush, no expectation—just time. I hope that time is kind to you.

My father once told me that understanding yourself is like learning a language—you’ll always be discovering new words, new meanings, new ways to express things you never quite knew how to before. I think he was right.

Thor's Helmet taken by Chris DeCosta and Martin Pugh on February 28 2019

NGC 2359, also referred to as Thor's Helmet, is an emission nebula in the constellation Canis Major. At the heart of this nebula is a Wolf-Rayet star WR7, which is in this phase briefly before a supernova occurs.

The bubble appearance of this nebula is due to the strong stellar winds coming from WR7. These winds contribute to forming a complex structure, with a huge mass of ionized material. The high energy radiation coming from the star ionizes hydrogen to produce red light and doubly ionizes oxygen to produce blue light.

The gas absorbs and then reemits this light, leading to the name of "emission nebula".

People have said that before. I still don’t see it. Does it bother you Dr. Lecter?

It's very weird, having a patient with the same face as my Will.

Supermassive Star Eta Carinae ©

I cannot keep going like this. I will drive over to Beth and her family.

This is the same anon that asked about nebulous.io,

Errr well i didn’t exactly like much about it because most of my memories playing it as a child is that i was blackmailed by my older sibling into doing so, but i did like the spacy names and skins, though back then as a kid i did infact not know that andromeda was a galaxy and to me it was just that one annoying bot with a funky name that kept eating me

I didn’t really understand that Andromeda was a galaxy at the time either.

As a child, I just thought it was an interesting name. I was more focused on avoiding that bot, actually. I got frustrated after a while.

Looking back, I realize there were a lot of things I didn’t know about, but I think I’ve gotten better at understanding those things now.