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awwww-cute: *trot* *trot* *trot* *trot*
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awesomephilia: i think dogs have elevator music playing in their heads at all times
i think dogs have elevator music playing in their heads at all times
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thespiritofyamato: MOTHERFUCKERS COULDN’T GET ON WONDER WOMEN’S...
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the-cosmic-giggle: love
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spaceplasma: UA Astronomers Take Sharpest Photos Ever of the...
A close-up of the central region of the Orion nebula, taken with the Schulman Telescope at the UA's Mount Lemmon SkyCenter.
Equipped with the newly developed MagAO adaptive optics system, the Magellan Telescope revealed details about the Orion nebula.
UA Astronomers Take Sharpest Photos Ever of the Night Sky
Thanks to new technology developed in part at the UA, astronomers can now view objects in the sky at unprecedented sharpness in visible light. Using a telescope mirror that vibrates a thousand times each second to counteract atmospheric flickering, the team has achieved image resolution capabilities that could see a baseball diamond on the moon.
Astronomers at the University of Arizona, the Arcetri Observatory near Florence, Italy and the Carnegie Observatory have developed a new type of camera that allows scientists to take sharper images of the night sky than ever before. The team has been developing this technology for more than 20 years at observatories in Arizona, most recently at the Large Binocular Telescope, or LBT, and has now deployed the latest version of these cameras in the high desert of Chile at the Magellan 6.5-meter telescope.
The twofold improvement over past efforts rests on the fact that for the first time, a telescope with a large diameter primary mirror is being used for digital photography at its theoretical resolution limit in visible wavelengths – light that the human eye can see.
These images are also at least twice as sharp as what the Hubble Space Telescope can make, because with its 21-foot diameter mirror, the Magellan telescope is much larger than Hubble with its 8-foot mirror. Until now, Hubble always produced the best visible light images, since even large ground-based telescope with complex adaptive optics imaging cameras could only make blurry images in visible light.
Credit: Laird Close and Ya-Lin Wu; NASA, C.R. O’Dell and S.K. Wong/ Adam Block/UA SkyCenter
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poetwithoutadream: i love this fucking quote so fucking much
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nativeandnaive: legendxofxzach: One time during my freshmen year of college I forgot to do a...
One time during my freshmen year of college I forgot to do a history paper that was worth 20% of my grade and the teacher didn’t accept late work, so I waited until the professor handed back the papers and angrily asked where mine was. The teacher felt so bad for losing it he let me re-do the entire paper and gave me an A-
You fucking champ
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automatically: I love you Ellen :’)
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amsterdamnedd: voxify: This must look so weird if you don’t...
This must look so weird if you don’t speak Dutch
Honestly she’s just saying ‘mummy this one this one this one please’
i aM PISSING MYSELF
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phils-mum-and-llama-placentas: bangtidyniall: I HEAR THOSE SLEIGH BELLS JINGLING RING TING...
phils-mum-and-llama-placentas:
I HEAR THOSE SLEIGH BELLS JINGLING
RING TING TINGLING TOOOOOOOOOOOOO
COME ON IT’S LOVELY WEATHER
FOR A SLEIGH RIDE TOGETHER WITH YOUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU
IT’S STARTED
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goldr0ger: lordflacko91: truhovixxx: memeguy-com: This Kid...
This Kid Is Going Places
Me as a father.
^^ same
god damn baby assassin. He’s probably gonna be doing parkour at like 4 and become a marine by 9
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unabating: -angel: “I was born with glass bones and paper...
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daily—celebs: 11/7/14 - Amanda Bynes leaving Nine Zero...
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