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Stained glass |  Colored light by Michel Carlué

NGC 6946 - Fireworks Galaxy

Face on spiral galaxies are not only amongst some of the most stunning objects in the night sky, but they reveal so much about galaxies, including our very own.

This galaxy is 25.2 million light years from us, in the constellation of Cepheus & Cygnus. It's 87,000 light years in diameter (100k for the Milky Way), so not too dissimilar.

Like most spiral galaxies it has a inner core of older more yellow/red stars giving a more creamy appearance, while the outer arms are dominated by vast nebula (pink) and large blue stars that come along with active star formation, for a few million years at least.

Unlike the Milky Way, it is classified as a star burst galaxy due to the huge amount of star formation, and why it's alter-ego "Fireworks Galaxy" is fairly apt, it has experienced 10 known supernova since records began.

54 Years Ago: Apollo 11 Crew Walks on the Moon via NASA https://ift.tt/y2FoDE9

I finished all of my psychology plus french exams and assignments! Having some free time feels like the reward~

I am once again asking for recommendations of Greek myth inspired books 📖 So far I loved reading the Maidens and The Song of Achilles, but my favourite has to be Pandora by Susan Stokes! (Absolutely hated The Silence of Girls by Pat Baker, don’t understand why it exists.)

Che Guevara in the former fields of the Villareal Golf Club- Colinas del Villareal, Loma de Bacuranao, Havana, 29 March 1961

© Alberto Korda Estate - Courtesy Cobra Museum via loeildelaphotographie

Colonel Carmen Robles from the Zapatista army. She was an Afromexican hero of the Mexican Revolution. The photograph could be taken in 1910 or 1915.

Chrysocolla On Malachite | Star of the Congo Mine, Lubumbashi, Haut-Katanga, Democratic Republic of the Congo

Head of a partisan from the guard of King Henry III of France, dated 1588.

from The Worcester Art Museum

In the twenty years before Albert Einstein died, he very rarely accepted invitations to speak at universities. In 1946, however, he accepted an invitation to Lincoln University in Pennsylvania which was the first school in America to grant college degrees to African American students. 

During his speech, he spoke about his disgust at racism in America. He said that racism is “a disease of white people” adding that he does “not intent to be quiet about it.” And quiet he was not; throughout his life, he open spoke about racial injustice as well as antisemitism. 

cozy spaces

Louis Armstrong and his wife at Egypt, 1960

The Dumbbell Nebula M27

Another planetary nebula, the Dumbbell nebula lies around 1,300 light years from Earth in the constellation of Vulpecula. It's estimated from it's expansion to have been from the collapse of the white dwarf (centre) around 10,000 years ago.

The average planetary nebula is thought to be visible for around 20,000 years, which is a blink of an eye in terms of the life length of even the shortest lived stars.

the smell of old books

I am once again asking for recommendations of Greek myth inspired books 📖 So far I loved reading the Maidens and The Song of Achilles, but my favourite has to be Pandora by Susan Stokes! (Absolutely hated The Silence of Girls by Pat Baker, don’t understand why it exists.)