Sue Bentz

loves science fiction and fantasy, art and artists, animals and nature

[Black Hole @konstructivizm]

Fifteen billion miles from home, the farthest machine humans have ever built is still doing science on less memory than a blank Word document and a data recorder that is, quite literally, an 8-track tape.

Voyager 1, launched in 1977, is roughly 15.9 billion miles out—closing in on one light-day from Earth—and still reporting from interstellar space with about 69 kilobytes of computer memory total, plus a digital 8-track that has to overwrite old data to make room for anything new. Its signal takes nearly a day to reach us, carried by a transmitter weaker than a hallway bulb.

[Collin Rugg @CollinRugg]

The mother of the 6-year-old who shot his teacher and then told cops, "f*ck you... b*tch," blamed the incident on his ADHD.

During an interview following the shooting, the boy's mother, Deja Taylor, said he had a "disability."

"He has ADHD... he doesn't sit still ever."

In the interview, Turner also appeared to point blame at the teacher for suspending her child, claiming he "accidentally" knocked her phone out of her hand.

The teacher, Abigail Zwerner, suffered a gunshot wound to the hand and chest. She needed multiple surgeries and spent weeks in the hospital.

I'm not a doctor, but I don't think ADHD makes you shoot your teacher.

[Massimo @Rainmaker1973]

Nothing special to see, just some raccoons trying to catch a rainbow.

[Massimo @Rainmaker1973]

Animals never forget those who are kind and loving to them.

[Massimo @Rainmaker1973]

A girl adopted an injured deer and showed how, over time, it turned into just another little dog.

[Nature Clips @NatureClips01]

BROWN BEAR SITS IN TALL GRASS AS THE WIND BLOWS THROUGH HIS FUR

[Black Hole @konstructivizm]

Fifteen billion miles from home, the farthest machine humans have ever built is still doing science on less memory than a blank Word document and a data recorder that is, quite literally, an 8-track tape.

Voyager 1, launched in 1977, is roughly 15.9 billion miles out—closing in on one light-day from Earth—and still reporting from interstellar space with about 69 kilobytes of computer memory total, plus a digital 8-track that has to overwrite old data to make room for anything new. Its signal takes nearly a day to reach us, carried by a transmitter weaker than a hallway bulb.

[Historical Africa @historical_Afr]

The Greeks visited Egypt (Kemet) as students to learn from Africans. Plato studied in Egypt for 13 years. Pythagoras studied philosophy, geometry, and medicine in Egypt for 22 years. Thales was the first Greek philosopher to study in Egypt, remaining for seven years. Hippocrates, who is called the father of medicine, recognized the Egyptian multi-genius Imhotep as the father of medicine. The Pythagorean theorem was used to build pyramids in Egypt 1,000 years before Pythagoras was born. Plato said Egyptian education makes students more alert and humane. Plato told his students to go to Egypt if they wanted to study the minds of great philosophers. Herodotus, the Greek historian, described ancient Egypt as the cradle of civilization. Our ancestors opened the doors of our nation to foreign peoples; these guests were welcomed with respect and honor according to our traditions, but they used our kindness to destroy our nation.

[Black Hole @konstructivizm]

In the Virgo Cluster, about 60 million light-years away, two spiral galaxies are locked in the opening steps of a slow gravitational dance. NGC 4567 and NGC 4568—the Butterfly Galaxies, or Siamese 0Twins—still keep their pinwheel shapes, yet their disks already touch.

William Herschel found both on the same night in 1784. Through a small telescope they look like a soft V, wings of haze joined at the base, which is how they earned the butterfly name. Closer views show the difference: NGC 4567 is nearly face-on, a clean spiral of blue star-forming knots; NGC 4568 is tilted, its dust lanes cutting a warmer, gold-brown band across the pair. Both are unbarred spirals of type SA(rs)bc, and together they shine at about magnitude 10.9.

They are not a chance overlap. Maps of neutral and molecular gas show the interaction has already begun, even though the system is still early. The galaxies’ centers sit roughly 20,000 light-years apart—close enough that their outer disks overlap, and that shared zone is where star formation burns brightest. Gravity is compressing gas there into new clusters, while the inner spirals remain largely intact. The outer stellar disks are already feeling the pull.

Over the next half-billion years the encounter will tighten. The galaxies will swing past each other in shrinking loops, drawing out streamers of stars and gas, until the two disks lose their separate identities and settle into a single elliptical galaxy—something more like their Virgo neighbor Messier 89. Most of the gas will have been spent on stars or blown away by then. The same kind of merger is the expected fate of the Milky Way and Andromeda, only on a longer clock of several billion years.

The pair has also hosted several supernovae, including SN 2020fqv in NGC 4568, a brief flare against a collision that will outlast every human civilization. What looks like wings today is the start of one galaxy becoming another.

[Susan J Hodgetts (Sue) @hodgetts_susan]

#FrescoFriday
Roman fresco depicting a dancing maenad in a silk dress, 1st century CE, from the Casa del Naviglio (House of the Ship) in Pompeii .

~ Naples National Archaeological Museum/
📷 Age Fotostock/Wiki
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[International Space Station @Space_Station]

Crew-12 is heading home, shaped by a mission full of science 🔬

From advancing cancer treatments to refining quantum technologies, Crew-12 supported a range of research that benefits life on Earth and helps prepare humans for future exploration missions. https://t.co/kvGEK1sFJL

[Min Min Wu @MinMinWu6]

Canadian's life .

[Wolf @WolfprwX]

So touching 🥺 Silverback comforts upset albino baby gorilla

[Ari Fleischer @AriFleischer]

This is incredible. It’s so rare today that this stands out like a sore thumb.

But it wasn’t so long ago that people went to Washington to work together to get things done.

John Fetterman is a class act and a patriot. Well done.

[NO CONTEXT HUMANS @HumansNoContext]

Ryker, a German Shepherd, failed his service dog certification after getting distracted by a plush elephant during his focus test.

His owner bought him the toy anyway, and he later went viral carrying it proudly through a train station. 🐶❤️

[Francisco Ribeiro @fraveris]

“It is easier to experience something terrible than to imagine it and wait for it endlessly.”

(Jorge Luis Borges, Alef)

Thierry Lechanteur artwork

[Massimo @Rainmaker1973]

A lonely grey rabbit with a heavy heart finally found a friend when his owner rescued a shy white bunny.

From that day on, he lit up with joy, hugging and caring for her every moment.

Real friendship changes everything.

[Wholesome Side of 𝕏 @itsme_urstruly]

After leaving for work the owner decided to check his home security camera to see what his cat was doing.. 😂