My littlest sister did this for me while I watched football

I especially like her accurate map of Ireland, my pink space suit, and my amazing ability to not die without an air supply

Her use of son instead of sun is just adorable

You don’t need to know who Anthony is. It’s a secret

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Black Hole-Powered Jets Plow Into Galaxy.

This composite image of a galaxy illustrates how the intense gravity of a supermassive black hole can be tapped to generate immense power. The image contains X-ray data from NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory (blue), optical light obtained with the Hubble Space Telescope (gold) and radio waves from the NSF’s Very Large Array (pink).

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Image Credit: NASA

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Does Alien Life Thrive in Venus’ Mysterious Clouds?

Personally, I’ve always thought that Venus gets a lot of bad press. Sure, it’s wrapped in clouds so strongly acidic that they dissolved the first few probes we tried to land there, and it has a surface temperature high enough to melt lead — but just above the cloud decks of Venus, you’ll find some of the most “Earth-like” conditions in our entire solar system.

This has prompted some astrobiologists to wonder if, contrary to popular belief, Venus may actually be a home to life of some kind. Perhaps we’ve been looking in the wrong place, and life on Venus is not on its surface but in its clouds.

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