I just hit a huge milestone designing my giant pinball machine in Minecraft: the playfield is all laid out!
I'm calling the game Deep Field, and there's five primary objectives based on hitting different shots representing bands of the electromagnetic spectrum.
IR: rollover switches
Visible light: pop bumpers
UV: captive ball
X-rays: Drop targets
Gamma rays: spinner
Also, a kinetic sling disc to light locks for Pluto Multiball!
New from the Webb Telescope: somebody turned Saturn off but left the rings on all night. (Or: image in infrared via the telescope's NIRCAM instrument, courtesy of Erika at @ExploreCosmos_ over on Twitter.)
Went out to Sterling, Virginia to check on the old AOL Headquarters. It’s all gone except the front sign. Even without the letters it still reads 22000 AOL Way
The Ring Nebula (M57), is more complicated than it appears through a small telescope. The easily visible central ring is about one light-year across, but this remarkable exposure by the James Webb Space Telescope explores this popular nebula with an exposure in infrared light. Strings of gas, like eyelashes around a cosmic eye, become evident around the nebula in this digitally enhanced featured image in assigned colors. These long filaments may be caused by the shadowing of knots of dense gas in the ring from energetic light emitted within. The Ring Nebula is an elongated planetary nebula, a type of gas cloud created when a Sun-like star evolves to throw off its outer atmosphere to become a white dwarf star. The central oval in the Ring Nebula lies about 2,500 light-years away toward the musical constellation Lyra.
Okay. So I have seen the theory that The Almighty took away Crowley’s ability to see the stars and nebulas he created by giving him snake eyes. As an owner of a snake, I can help you understand a bit better!
Crowley has bad vision during the day most likely. However, snakes are extremely sensitive to UV light. Explains Crowley’s sunglasses! His eyes could very easily get damaged and his vision would be even WORSE. (one of the many reasons why he only takes them off indoors)
Don’t Panic. HE STILL WOULD SEE THE STARS. At night? That’s a WHOLE DIFFERENT STORY. Snakes actually see very well at night because of being able to see infrared light. Also, they are able to differentiate heat. So, Crowley, if he does possess dichromatic vision or not, would be able to see his creations.
Infrared can pass through dense regions of gas and dust in space with less scattering and absorption. So, infrared can also reveal objects in the universe that cannot be seen in visible light. So he’d be able to see this:
HUMAN VISION (left) VS INFRARED VISION (right)
I hope this eases some of your panic about Crowley not being able to see stars he created with his snake eyes after The Fall! 😌💫
(How this became the MOST LIKED THING on my Tumblr account is beyond me.)