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the main riddle.
why did I sing it?!?
HIER KOMMT DIE SONNE!!
SIE IST DER HELLSTE STERN VON ALLEN!!!
Darkness as a corrupting horror: oh cool
Blinding light as a corrupting horror: OOOOOOGGGGGHOODSHITOOHOOHOOHOOHEHEHE
HAHAHAHAHAHA
Oh my.
You seriously want us to eat that?
06/03/65
Gus and John at Mission Control for the launch of Gemini 4.
November 12, 1963.
John!! He poses!
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Johnny! My love!
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Gus Grissom & John Young.
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Chaffee! Pure cinnamon roll!!
OH MY GAWD
Roger and his sister Donna with two pet rabbits, early 1940s
Stargazing Or Die Trying
This evening, I had a solid observing session. Given all the light pollution, and less than perfect skies, I’m still pretty darn proud of how these turned out.
Mercury (photo 1-2): first photo was taken with iPhone XR using the NightCap app. Second was with the Canon M50. This little planet just happens to be my favorite. The length of a day on Mercury is about 59 Earth days, but a year is only 88 Earth days, making it the worst place for Monday to possibly exist.
M44, the Beehive Cluster (partial): these bees aren’t bees. They don’t make honey, but they are known to host these sweet exoplanets known as Hot Jupiters; massive gas giants that closely orbit their home stars.
M13, the Hercules Cluster: in the 1970’s, we beamed a ‘WYD?’ message towards this massive cluster, from the Arecibo Observatory, with our location and our deets. It’s unknown if M13 ever received our message; if so, it left us on ‘Read’.
Arcturus: located in the constellation Böotes, its official abbreviation is Alpha Boo, which is kind of hilarious. The light emitted from this red giant is about 37 years old, and its the fourth brightest in the night sky.
Every photo with the exception of the first one was taken with Canon M50 camera, using a Celestron 6SE telescope. Edited in PS Express.
John Young, Tom Stafford and Gene Cernan.
Heck yeah.
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Awww John!
It's style babe.
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S
Sarcasm.
John Young on the Lunar Rover.
Johnny!! My love!
NO MORE BAD POST! NO DRAMA! we appreciate John W. Young now
JOHN WATTS YOUNG!!!
JOHN WATTS YOUNG!!!
ON THIS WEBSITE WE ARE ALL APPRECIATE JOHN WATTS YOUNG!!! ! !! !!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Dramatic photo of the STS-1 crew, John Young and Bob Crippen.
Wally Schirra and Deke Slayton in Mercury Control during Gordon Cooper’s Mercury-Atlas 9 mission in May of 1963.
Spaghettification
Otherwise known as Tidal Disruption Events
Stars die in various ways, and at what point you consider death too could be argued. For example, when a star like our sun runs out of hydrogen fuel, we say it no longer is on the main sequence, it begins to collapse but will quickly reach the pressure needed to fuse the helium that had built up over the 10 billion odd years of fusing hydrogen. A 2nd life then occurs, as the now bloated star enters its red giant stage and for another billion years (maybe), fuses the helium. Eventually it runs out, and the collapse begins again, this time however the pressure inside won't kick off any fusion, it will crush down on the core, shed it's outer atmosphere as a planetary nebula and leave behind a white dwarf.
A white dwarf is classified as a degenerate star, it shines, although none are visible with the naked eye from Earth, many can be seen with average telescopes. The brightest of which happens to be Sirius B, which orbits the brightest star in our sky, Sirius A, that has an apparent magnitude of +8.5.
The star Sirius B though has halted fusing, it's a massive ball of Oxygen and Carbon at temperatures at the surface of 25,000'c (compared to 5,500'c on our Sun) and emits a lot of radiation, so in some ways it's still active even if all the processes that made it a living star haven't. The White dwarf will continue to burn but slowly lose it's energy. No white dwarf has yet reached it, but eventually they stop emitting and become a black dwarf, but the time it would take is longer than the universe has currently existed.
Other stars die slightly more dramatically, larger mass stars go supernova when the inevitable collapse occurs, but even they leave behind something, be it a neutron star or for the real large ones, a black hole.
And this brings us back to our tidal disruption events, as many large stars are in binary relationships with other stars, and their collapse into a black hole can have a profound impact on them.
A star that gets too close to a black hole won't just be pulled in, rather, it will slowly be ripped apart long before the remains of that star enter the black hole, causing a mass of radiation to be ejected as it does so.
As the star approaches the gravity of the black hole, the differential between the gravity on one side and the gravity on the other side, tears the star apart, stripping it of matter that then forms spaghetti like stings that are funnelled toward the black hole.
Until recently, all of this was theoretical, but a recent team of astronomers have for the first time detected the spaghetti wrapped around a black hole like a yarn of wool.
Source : https://scitechdaily.com/astronomers-see-first-hint-of-silhouette-of-star-spaghettified-by-black-hole/
This picture is so holy and gentle to me
Oh!! His voice! ✨
Star Trek’s Nichelle Nichols with Apollo 12 moonwalker Alan Bean at NASA’s Johnson Space Center, March 1977.
Astronauts; like you and me, but way cooler
Gosh, why do Frank and Pete look like cinnamon rolls here?
Oh yep, they are cinnamon rolls!!
(4 Dec. 1965) — Fellow astronauts join the Gemini-7 prime crew for breakfast in the Manned Spacecraft Operations Building, Merritt Island, on the day of the Gemini-7 launch. Clockwise around the table, starting lower left, are astronauts James A. Lovell Jr., Gemini-7 prime crew pilot; Walter M. Schirra Jr., Gemini-6 prime crew command pilot; Donald K. Slayton, MSC assistant director for Flight Crew Operations; Virgil I. Grissom, Gemini-6 backup crew command pilot; Charles Conrad Jr., Gemini-5 prime crew pilot; and Frank Borman, Gemini-7 prime crew command pilot. Photo credit: NASA
serotonin is stored in this bit of the apollo 12 mission audio
Views of Earth and Intrepid, Apollo 12, 14 Nov 1969.
My dad burned the moon with a flamethrower.
I'm dyyyyyying
John Young on his love life.
J: “Charlie. Charlie. Charlie. CHARLIE. CHARLIE. CHAAAAAAAAAARRRRRLIEEEEEEEE. CHAAAAAAARRRLIEEEEE.”
C: “WHAT? Cripes!”
J: “There’s some rocks over there. Heh heh heh heh.”
C: “I hate you, John.”
“Oh my word, John. Do you see what she’s wearing?”
“Even among the astronauts, Ed White had always stood out; a strapping six-footer who had barely missed becoming an Olympic hurdler, he was known as one of the finest physical specimens in the Astronaut Office. And perhaps more than any astronaut except John Glenn, White subscribed to their ail-American image. In 1965, after he became the first American to walk in space, White easily wore the mantle of a national hero. There appeared to be no limit to how far he might go.”
Andrew Chaikin, A Man on the Moon
Awww!! Ah have no words!! ✨
Gus 'n' John
Introducing the New Nine, LIFE Magazine, September 28, 1962.
My favorite things about this photo, in no particular order:
Ed White’s expression
Jim and Frank. Just in general. But also that weird bald patch on Frank’s head.
HOLY SHIT LOOK AT PETE. PETE, I LOVE YOUR FACE.
The little blurbs about them on the side are totally distressing: why are they giving out these poor fellas’ heights and weights?
On that same note, why is John so goddamn heavy? He’s the wiriest of the lot of them! My money is on that ridiculously broad upper body. And by “my money is on his upper body,” I mean “I wish my hands were on his upper body.”
I totally did not just say that.
Why was this photo taken from up in a tree? I think Ralph Morse had some serious problems with being on the ground. He’s always photographing things from really curious angles.