Bel 🌟

she/her • thewintergallery • hematóloga en potencia y artista a ratitos 💐​🌞​

[Bel 🌟 @thwintergallery]

Little cows in their mushroom hats 🐮🍄🥹💗 #polymerclay #handmade

[vicki ✨ @vickisigh]

good morning~ 💐🍎

[spor @sporadica]

forget the virus, WHO THE HELL is taking antarctic cruises from argentina, sailing the remote south Atlantic, going home to SF for a day, then flying to the remote Pacific and ending up on one of the most remote islands on Earth

that's a damn Lord of the Rings level journey

[Bel 🌟 @thwintergallery]

JAJAJAJA mi guilty pleasure es este hombre, de verdad que no podría inventarse, le amo

[sofía 🦋 @byunlimited]

esta reflexión… el sócrates de nuestra generación

[🌟🌿MOHA🌿🌟 @Reckless_Moss]

💚

[marcy so in love 📘 @nawiosne]

oh i have a post for this occasion ☝️

[Bel 🌟 @thwintergallery]

yo después del bosquexo (rotuladores fueron adquiridos)

[Paloma McClain @palomamcclain]

time to PLAYYYYYYYYY

[Aizee ✦ HOSTING FOR FANSIGN - CHECK PINNED 💫 @AizeeClay]

No but polymer clay and sculpting is truly so fascinating because what do you mean I started with this and ended up with this? Art is amazing, creating is amazing

[Everyday Astronaut @Erdayastronaut]

This photo of Earth is EXTRA spectacular for a good reason... let me explain. Most images you see of Earth from space are the daylight side of the Earth, and it's obviously very bright (see my last image), this means stars are too dim to be seen with that bright exposure setting (low ISO, high shutter and / or stopped down aperture).

BUT this image taken by the Orion crew looks so incredible because you can see the sun is BEHIND the earth, meaning it's night time on the side of the earth facing the crew in this image.

So how do you expose a night time earth from space? Same way you do on Earth! A mixture of opening up the aperture (F4 in this case), cranking the ISO (51,200 here), and using a relatively long exposure (1/4 of a second). We can see the settings used by looking at the exif data from the camera. What this means is our camera is also sensitive enough to see stars in the background of Earth, leading to an extraordinary image!!! GREAT WORK!!! These are the kind of images I've been so excited to see!

[Anish Moonka @anishmoonka]

Christina Koch was a firefighter at the South Pole at -111°F before she ever applied to be an astronaut. That was maybe the fourth most interesting line on her resume. She grew up in North Carolina, got three degrees from NC State, and her first real job was building deep-space instruments at NASA.

Then she left for Antarctica. Spent three and a half years bouncing between the Arctic and Antarctic as a research scientist, including a full winter at the South Pole base. That means going months without sunlight or fresh food, with a crew of about 50 people and no way out until flights resume. While she was down there, she also joined the glacier search-and-rescue team.

After coming back, she went to Johns Hopkins and built instruments for two NASA missions (one of them is still orbiting Jupiter right now). She figured out how to start a tiny vacuum pump that NASA designed for a future Mars rover. Johns Hopkins nominated it for their Invention of the Year in 2009. Then she went back to the field. More time in Antarctica and a stretch up in Greenland. A government research station in northern Alaska, near the top of the world. Then she ran another one in American Samoa, near the equator.

In 2013, NASA selected her from 6,300 applicants. Eight people got in. Her first space mission was supposed to be a normal rotation on the International Space Station, but NASA extended it. She ended up staying 328 straight days and orbiting Earth 5,248 times, covering about 139 million miles (roughly 291 round trips to the Moon). Up there, she ran over 210 experiments, including tests of cancer drugs in zero gravity and 3D printers that can build structures close to human tissue. Six spacewalks, 42 hours floating outside the station. She learned Russian for the training. She flies supersonic jets.

Right now, Koch is on Artemis II, heading for a flyby behind the far side of the Moon. The crew launched on April 1 and is on track to travel about 252,000 miles from Earth, which would break the all-time human distance record of 248,655 miles set by Apollo 13 in 1970. That record has stood for 56 years, and it was set during a disaster that nearly killed the crew. Fred Haise, one of the Apollo 13 astronauts, is 92 now. He told Koch: "I heard you're going to break our record."

Nobody had left Earth's neighborhood since December 1972. Koch and her three crewmates are the first in 53 years, and they are coming home at about 25,000 mph. That is faster than any crewed spacecraft has ever come back through the atmosphere.

[InventorBLADES 🤝🪧👀 @InventorBLADES]

@NASA - Carl Sagan

[Tommy Stella @tommy_stella]

It’s kind of insane that we’re all lucky enough to live on this insignificant blue ball floating in an endless void that can somehow keep us alive indefinitely and yet a huge chunk of people want to ruin it forever in the name of an economic concept that we made up ourselves

[Rubén Blanco @RBlancoMFyC]

El mismo que:
- Ha recibido la solicitud de eutanasia de la paciente.
- Ha tenido dos procesos deliberativos con ella en los que ha valorado, entre otras cosas, que no hay coacciones, que es competente para tomar esa decisión y que se han agotado todas las alternativas. (1/2)

[☆.・༄ Jaegerjaquez 𓂀 @suckmykiedis]

así que sí pueden intervenir para prohibirte que tengas un perro en tu vivienda (privada) pero nadie puede impedir que dos alemanes tengan más de 2.600 apartamentos turísticos en 20 ciudades en españa mientras hay gente que no puede ni acceder a un alquiler o viviendo en la calle

[karthi🇦🇷🇪🇸 @kadaisisoprano]

GENERATIONAL

[Cats That Make You Go Awww @CuteAdorableCat]

Cat followed the Google Earth camera everywhere 😂

[X Force 137 @137Force]

Imagine needing to use the bathroom but you haven't explored enough so you gotta find a crank via puzzle