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G-DRAGON - ‘무제(無題) (Untitled, 2014)’

#i'm #?????????#gd #bigbang #audio #icb i'm seeing him tODAY???

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La Luna ✨🌖

#moon #nature #photography

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thetruerarkher replied to your post : thetruerarkher replied to...

I’m nice 99.999% if the time!

Σ░(꒪ ﾛ ꒪ )))) you are????

#thetruerarkher #ilu dw #we're known each other for like 10+ years by now it's only natural we're mean

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thetruerarkher replied to your post : hypnoplasmids: *draws a character facing ¾ right...

“Draws” one word in and a lie already

smh being salty at me even on this most special of days

#thetruerarkher #sobs i'll draw again soon i swear i miss it a lot

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*draws a character facing ¾ right on a blank white background* oh thank god. i’m good at art again

#M E THO

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#guys #GUYS.#today i turn a quarter of a century old how wild is that #can u believe we made it this far??#me either but i'm glad we did bc i'm eating my weight in chinese food today to celebrate

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Sleepy Eeveelutions!

#!!#pokémon

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#holy shit #hong kong #photography #architecture #fave

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little watercolour with metallic spores

#this is sO PRETTY #art

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Being bitter and negative is boring and I dont want to do it anymore

#me @ me #note to self #note to everyone

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even if no one sees your art or photos, don’t stop creating them.

#same with writing or any other medium

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me judging big blockbuster movies: ugh again with these tired romance cliches? come on, aren’t we above this? this is gonna suck

me reading fanfic: *opens the 700th coffee shop au with unintentional bed sharing i’ve ever read* damn this is gonna be So Good

#about me #tbh

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Five Famous Pulsars from the Past 50 Years

Early astronomers faced an obstacle: their technology. These great minds only had access to telescopes that revealed celestial bodies shining in visible light. Later, with the development of new detectors, scientists opened their eyes to other types of light like radio waves and X-rays. They realized cosmic objects look very different when viewed in these additional wavelengths. Pulsars — rapidly spinning stellar corpses that appear to pulse at us — are a perfect example.

The first pulsar was observed 50 years ago on August 6, 1967, using radio waves, but since then we have studied them in nearly all wavelengths of light, including X-rays and gamma rays.

Typical Pulsar

Most pulsars form when a star — between 8 and 20 times the mass of our sun — runs out of fuel and its core collapses into a super dense and compact object: a neutron star.

These neutron stars are about the size of a city and can rotate slowly or quite quickly, spinning anywhere from once every few hours to hundreds of times per second. As they whirl, they emit beams of light that appear to blink at us from space.

First Pulsar

One day five decades ago, a graduate student at the University of Cambridge, England, named Jocelyn Bell was poring over the data from her radio telescope - 120 meters of paper recordings.

Image Credit: Sumit Sijher

She noticed some unusual markings, which she called “scruff,” indicating a mysterious object (simulated above) that flashed without fail every 1.33730 seconds. This was the very first pulsar discovered, known today as PSR B1919+21.

Best Known Pulsar

Before long, we realized pulsars were far more complicated than first meets the eye — they produce many kinds of light, not only radio waves. Take our galaxy’s Crab Nebula, just 6,500 light years away and somewhat of a local celebrity. It formed after a supernova explosion, which crushed the parent star’s core into a neutron star.

The resulting pulsar, nestled inside the nebula that resulted from the supernova explosion, is among the most well-studied objects in our cosmos. It’s pictured above in X-ray light, but it shines across almost the entire electromagnetic spectrum, from radio waves to gamma rays.

Brightest Gamma-ray Pulsar

Speaking of gamma rays, in 2015 our Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope discovered the first pulsar beyond our own galaxy capable of producing such high-energy emissions.

Located in the Tarantula Nebula 163,000 light-years away, PSR J0540-6919 gleams nearly 20 times brighter in gamma-rays than the pulsar embedded in the Crab Nebula.

Dual Personality Pulsar

No two pulsars are exactly alike, and in 2013 an especially fast-spinning one had an identity crisis. A fleet of orbiting X-ray telescopes, including our Swift and Chandra observatories, caught IGR J18245-2452 as it alternated between generating X-rays and radio waves.

Scientists suspect these radical changes could be due to the rise and fall of gas streaming onto the pulsar from its companion star.

Transformer Pulsar

This just goes to show that pulsars are easily influenced by their surroundings. That same year, our Fermi Gamma Ray Space Telescope uncovered another pulsar, PSR J1023+0038, in the act of a major transformation — also under the influence of its nearby companion star.

The radio beacon disappeared and the pulsar brightened fivefold in gamma rays, as if someone had flipped a switch to increase the energy of the system.

NICER Mission

Our Neutron star Interior Composition Explorer (NICER) mission, launched this past June, will study pulsars like those above using X-ray measurements.