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I think Twitter is the only place @ZeroUmbra and I haven't shared this:

2 days after the original due date, our Starlight, our Sonshine, has officially entered the world.

Hello, Adonis 💙

[kovan / kel 🏳️‍⚧️ @Kovanartz]

IT'S CHRISTMAS EVE

[Black Hole @konstructivizm]

Snowlines in protoplanetary disks and molecular clouds mark critical boundaries where temperatures drop low enough for volatile molecules like CO, water, and methanol to freeze onto dust grains—triggering abrupt shifts from gas-phase to ice-surface chemistry.High-resolution ALMA observations reveal these "chemical snowlines" as remarkably sharp transition zones, often spanning just a few AU, where molecular abundances change dramatically.
Artist's illustration of a protoplanetary disk with layered snowlines for major volatiles, showing how freeze-out creates chemically distinct zones.
Classic depiction of the CO snowline around a young star, with icy grains beyond the boundary.
Schematic of chemical layers and freeze-out zones in a disk, highlighting temperature-driven transitions.
ALMA-derived map overlay showing CO emission and continuum, tracing outflow and potential snowline regions in a protostellar system.
Another ALMA continuum and CO intensity map, illustrating structured emission near freeze-out zones.
Conceptual view of vertical and radial chemical layering driven by CO and other snowlines.Tracers like N₂H⁺ (enhanced beyond the CO snowline ~20 K) and DCO⁺ pinpoint these boundaries precisely, as seen in disks like HD 163296 (sharp CO drop >20× at ~80 AU) and outbursting sources like V883 Ori (methanol tracing water snowline shifts). Tiny temperature variations—just a few degrees—dictate whether regions foster gas-phase complexity or ice-mantle reactions, ultimately supplying diverse "raw ingredients" (e.g., water ice for oceans, organics for prebiotic chemistry) to forming planets.These findings, from ALMA programs published in journals like Astronomy & Astrophysics and The Astrophysical Journal, bridge cloud-scale physics to planetary inheritance—showing interstellar space is chemically stratified, setting the stage for habitable worlds long before stars ignite. A profound insight into cosmic chemical evolution!

[Wonder of Science @wonderofscience]

A bubble snail (Bullina lineata) gliding along the seabed.

📽: uw.animals/ig

[Black Hole @konstructivizm]

A closeup look of Betelgeuse a red supergiant 650 light years away from Earth

[eveo @eveoart]

Fried shrimp Comic 🍤 1/2

[bean @SentientLine]

snooze

[(Simp)ly Culture Queen @CultureTeamCapn]

Happy National Boyfriend day to this amazing guy right here~ @CameHere001

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@CameHere001 😤 Til I breathe my last breath

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Gave a NY man a chain and now you really can't tell him shit