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'I rather believe that time is a companion who goes with us on the journey and reminds us to cherish every moment because they'll never come again.' Capt Picard

[AsiaF🇵🇱🇺🇦 @Asiaastro]

Podlasie we wrześniu 2022❤️

#Podlasie
#milkyway
#StormHour
#Astrophoto

[Physics In History @PhysInHistory]

Albert Einstein's letter to Marie Curie, 1911:

Prague, 23 November 1911
Highly esteemed Mrs. Curie

Do not laugh at me for writing you without having anything sensible to say.
But I am so enraged by the base manner in which the public is presently daring to concern itself with you that I absolutely must give vent to this feeling. However, I am convinced that you consistently despise this rabble, whether it obsequiously lavishes respect on you or whether it attempts to satiate its lust for sensationalism!

I am impelled to tell you how much I have come to admire your intellect, your drive, and your honesty, and that I consider myself lucky to have made your personal acquaintance in Brussels. Anyone who does not number among these reptiles is certainly happy, now as before, that we have such personages among us as you, and Langevinil too, real people with whom one feels privileged to be in contact. If the rabble continues to occupy itself with you, then simply don't read that hogwash, but rather leave it to the reptile for whom it has been fabricated.
With most amicable regards to you, Langevin, and Perrin, yours very truly,
A. Einstein

P.S. I have determined the statistical law of motion of the diatomic molecule in Planck's radiation field by means of a comical witticism, naturally under the constraint that the structure's motion follows the laws of standard mechanics.
My hope that this law is valid in reality is very small, though.

[Black Hole @konstructivizm]

☀️☀️ The Sun compared to the stars Vega, Arcturus, and Rigel.

Vega (α Lyrae) is a blue star located in the constellation Lyra.

Arcturus (α Boötis) is the brightest star in the Northern Hemisphere's sky. It is an orange giant with a luminosity 110 times that of the Sun.

Rigel (Beta Orionis) is the brightest star in the constellation Orion and the seventh-brightest star in the night sky.

[Black Hole @konstructivizm]

The Oort Cloud: Our Solar System’s Invisible Frontier
Far beyond the planets, at the outermost edge of the Sun’s domain, lies a realm so vast and remote that it challenges the imagination: the Oort Cloud.This enormous spherical shell of icy comets and frozen debris forms the true boundary of our solar system. While Neptune orbits at about 30 AU and Pluto at roughly 40 AU, the Oort Cloud begins thousands of astronomical units from the Sun and may extend out to 100,000 AU or farther. (One AU — the average Earth-Sun distance — is roughly 150 million kilometers.)To grasp this scale: light, traveling at 300,000 km per second, takes just eight minutes to cross one AU. Yet it requires weeks to reach the inner edge of the Oort Cloud and more than a full year to arrive at its outermost fringes — over one light-year away.Human technology barely scratches this frontier. Voyager 1, our most distant spacecraft, would still need roughly 300 years just to reach the inner Oort Cloud and another 30,000 years to cross https://t.co/R6T3FjqLxb, the Sun’s gravitational grip grows incredibly weak. Icy bodies drift in a loosely bound swarm, easily nudged by the gravity of passing stars or the subtle tides of the Milky Way itself. Occasionally, one of these frozen wanderers is disturbed from its ancient orbit and sent plunging inward — becoming the long-period comets that streak dramatically across our night skies millions of years later.The Oort Cloud isn’t just far away; it represents a conceptual edge. Our solar system doesn’t end neatly at the planets or even at the Kuiper Belt — it fades gradually into interstellar space across a volume so immense that it underscores both our isolation and our subtle connection to the rest of the galaxy.A vast, invisible reservoir of ice and history, silently guarding the outer limits of the Sun’s realm — the Oort Cloud reminds us just how breathtakingly large our cosmic backyard truly is.

[Massimo @Rainmaker1973]

People who say math is painful

[Lech Poznań ⭐️ @LechPoznan]

⭐️

[BlueBriefing🎬🍿 @Uzonna7]

The absolute best way to end the Star Trek OG film series!! Spock’s “Go to Hell” comment and Kirk quoting Peter Pan? Chef’s kiss!!

🎬🎥 Star Trek VI. 🔥❤️😱

[Mike Constantine @Moonpans]

On this day 1972 - Apollo 16 Lunar Rover Onboard Footage HD

Longer version in comments

This spectacular footage was filmed by Charlie Duke on board the Apollo 16 Lunar Rover using the 16mm DAC Film Camera. It shows the drive piloted by John Young from Station 11 to Station 13.

The footage has been upscaled, interpolated to 60FPS and synchronised to mission audio by Moonpans

Original footage source : Apollo Flight Journal

[Mike Constantine @Moonpans]

Apollo 15 Lunar Rover Footage Upscaled and Interpolated to 60 FPS

Incredible upscaled footage from onboard the Apollo 15 Lunar Rover captured by Jim Irwin using the 16mm DAC camera. This footage has been upscaled and Interpolated to 60 FPS and synchronised to the mission audio by Moonpans

Original footage source: Apollo Flight Journal

Full video in comments

[🌸🎵 Beautiful Melody 🎶💖 @Ducnghia16]

𝟑𝟗 𝐲𝐞𝐚𝐫𝐬 𝐥𝐚𝐭𝐞𝐫: 𝐀 𝐥𝐨𝐨𝐤 𝐛𝐚𝐜𝐤 𝐚𝐭 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐜𝐚𝐬𝐭 𝐨𝐟 𝐒𝐭𝐚𝐫 𝐓𝐫𝐞𝐤: 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐍𝐞𝐱𝐭 𝐆𝐞𝐧𝐞𝐫𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧.
The greatest Star Trek crew to ever do it. 🚀✨
They’ll always have a permanent spot in my heart.

[Night Sky Today @NightSkyToday]

Angel Wings Auroras spotted last night over Lapland, Finland 🇫🇮

A once-in-a-lifetime display where the northern lights unfolded in perfect symmetry, forming what looked like enormous glowing angel wings above the frozen forest.

The rare mix of pink, red, and green auroras only appears during intense solar activity, turning the Arctic sky into something that feels divine.

A moment so surreal it hardly looks real — yet it’s 100% nature.

[Massimo @Rainmaker1973]

The interior of the celestial bodies cut in half, seen by AI

[Captain James T. Kirk @CaptKirkJamesT]

#𝕊𝕥𝕒𝕣𝕋𝕣𝕖𝕜

The holidays bring people from all quadrants together.

[Massimo @Rainmaker1973]

4 billion years of human evolution unfold in minutes

[🎞️ thebrainmaze]

[Massimo @Rainmaker1973]

Dynamic Digital Radiography (DDR) allows you to observe movement like never before. This novel low-dose X-ray imaging technique enables visualization of anatomy in motion

[source, read more: https://t.co/4lk8BvLL8j]
https://t.co/M4NLHmyo1y

[The Nobel Prize @NobelPrize]

#OnThisDay in 1903, Marie Skłodowska Curie defended her doctoral thesis on radioactive substances at Université de la Sorbonne in Paris – becoming the first woman in France to receive a doctoral degree in physics.

[Massimo @Rainmaker1973]

This is how far human radio broadcasts have reached into the galaxy

[source, read more: https://t.co/ShYySiDsC7]

[Massimo @Rainmaker1973]

First, those horizontal lines are actually straight.

Then, the 'café wall' illusion is one of the oldest known. Learn why the lines are parallel and why you see them slanted: https://t.co/fob7BY6bj6

[source of this modified version, by Victoria Skye: https://t.co/GD2XlFdtu8]

[Donald Tusk @donaldtusk]

Było nas dziś 500 000🇵🇱
Dziękuję!

[Mateusz Lech @MattLech23]

Nie chce mi się przy piątku siedzieć w ruskim necie. Wybaczcie. Robię pauzę. Ale mam dla was ciekawe wideo z cyklu "Opowiedz nam o Polsce oczami obcokrajowca".

Bez tego korzucha pleśni i jadu- wojenki między plemionami.

Polecam 😉
Miłego popołudnia.

[Marcin Łukawski @marcin_lukawski]

Się nie dziwię 😜