It turns out, mapping the galaxy is a much more difficult job than anticipated, but using the light from Cepheid variable stars, which are stars that brighten and dim according to their size, we can pretty accurately tell distance. By using these stars, we can build a map of the distribution of stars in our galaxy...
So here's a 3D map of Cepheid variable stars, in our very own Milky Way galaxy, released in a survey done back in February. It reveals that the Milky Way isn't as flat as we thought, but rather a little bit warped or twisted. Although rare, it's far from unheard of to see a spiral galaxy with a wobble to it, and quite apparently our galaxy is among them.
Our galaxy is not flat, which means that a whole lot of art is out of date.
We don't know yet what caused the warping effect, could be a recent interaction or collision with another galaxy or even dark matter. At this point, it's still to early to tell.
7 tactics of pro-democracy #HongKong protesters
💧 be water
protests swarm to shut down one target after another
🌐 open-source protest
on the spot voting via telegram polls
📱 airdrop
after Telegram DDoS, turn to AirDrop and other P2P tools
✌️ sign language
hand signals and literal signs facilitate supply transfers
😢 🙅 neutralize tear gas
smother canisters w/ traffic cones, wet rags
🚶 avoid stampedes
1-2 1-2 chant to retreat safely
💸 crowdfunding
Posted a few of my cryptids to artstation! Here's four of them, there are a few more on the site.
https://www.artstation.com/artwork/2xKVXA
#cryptids #freelance #work #atmosphericbeasts #shoreladdie #beastofbusco #hairyfish #firealpaca
In the 11th century, the Arab polymath Ibn Sina was thinking about the nature of self-awareness. He wondered how much one could separate awareness of the "self" from awareness of one's body; whether one could "form the concept of themselves without having the concept of their body included in it." He proposed a thought experiment called the "floating man" in which a fully formed person with no memory is created out of thin air, floating in the dark without any sensory input whatsoever.