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nineteenfiftysix · 1 month

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transient stellar - matm (rkodr, 2001)

#transient stellar #rkodr #shoegaze #drum 'n' bass #blissbeat #wavertone

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extant-exhaustion · 3 months

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Can I ask your top 10 fav fics ever (from any fandom, if you don't mind)?

Also, just curious, is there a story behind your name "extant-exhaustion "?

Well, first of all, thank you so much for your patience! I know it took me seven weeks to reply to this Ask! I agonized over my list (also, the holidays happened, which kept me busy). But I finally narrowed it down, so here we go, in no particular order:

My Top 10 Favorite Fanfics

died in my dreams by MTrash Haikyuu!! | T+ | 10k | Ushijima/Tendou | futuristic/cyberpunk AU, opposites attract, reluctant work partners to friends to lovers | fantastic characterization, really cool conceptually, a story about trauma and healing and finding your person

Come and get lost with us by boxofwonder Haikyuu!! | M | 150k | Hinata/Kageyama, Daichi/Sugawara | action/adventure, Medieval AU(?) | unlike anything I've ever read before or since; a really masterful integration of an enormous cast and a plot that unravels with absolutely zero fluff or filler

A Second Chance To Say by KazimaKuwabara/@kazimakuwabara Yu Yu Hakusho | M | 92k | Yusuke/Kuwabara, Youko Kurama/Kuronue | action/adventure, hurt/comfort | ft. Kuronue's eternal sass and unwavering friendship, the slow burn of reincarnated already-in-love KuwaMeshi (because Kuwabara doesn't remember it), somewhat menacing levels of intrigue, and Hiei finally winning MVP of emotions on Team Urameshi

Don't Blink or You'll Miss It (Lift Up Your Head) by umisabaku/@umisabaku Kuroko no Basuke | M | 81k | Kagami/Kuroko, Kasamatsu/Kise, Midorima/Takao, Himuro/Murasakibara, Aomine/Momoi | super powers | This story and its accompanying series are so cool and so unique. The characterization is amazing and the worldbuilding is stellar.

neither fish, flesh, nor foam by twoif interactive on Twine Kuroko no Basuke | Kagami/Kuroko | angst, Little Mermaid–esque, interactive storytelling | incredible, but also devastating; a story about how sometimes our doubts can destroy not only ourselves but the good things we build; one of the coolest things I've ever interacted with as a story, a true tour de force

Transient Shadow, True Light by seafoamist/@seafoamist Kuroko no Basuke | M | 322k, WIP | Kagami/Kuroko | angst, hurt/comfort, time travel, historical (Edo Period) | If you talk to me about this story, I will go absolutely feral, because it is my current obsession and the only WIP that is on this list. I'm straight-up insane about its quality and depth. I can't even put this story into words. It knocks the wind out of me.

And lastly, my URL doesn't actually have a story behind it! It's basically just my life, haha. “Extant” is an adjective meaning “ongoing/still in existence” and “exhaustion” is pretty obvious. Essentially, I like alliteration and thought it sounded better than "tired 100% of the time."

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mindblowingscience · 5 months

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In a spectacular discovery, scientists have detected aurora-like emission in the atmosphere of the Sun. At an altitude of some 40,000 kilometers (25,000 miles) above a burgeoning sunspot growing in the solar photosphere, a team of astronomers led by Sijie Yu of the New Jersey Institute of Technology recorded a never-before-seen type of long-lasting radio emission. The Sun emits all kinds of radiation as it goes about its business, but this, the team says, resembled nothing so much as an aurora. "We've detected a peculiar type of long-lasting polarized radio bursts emanating from a sunspot, persisting for over a week," Yu says. "This is quite unlike the typical, transient solar radio bursts typically lasting minutes or hours. It's an exciting discovery that has the potential to alter our comprehension of stellar magnetic processes."

#Science #the sun #solar activity #astronomy #physics #space

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livingforstars · 4 months

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The X-ray Timing Explorer - January 3rd, 1996.

"Launched December 30th, 1995 on a Delta rocket, the X-ray Timing Explorer (XTE) watched the sky for rapid changes in X-rays. XTE carried three separate X-ray telescopes. The Proportional Counter Array (PCA) and the High Energy X-ray Timing Experiment (HEXTE) provided the best timing information in the widest X-ray energy range that was available at the time. It was planned that they would observe stellar systems that contain black holes, neutron stars, and white dwarfs, as well as study the X-ray properties of the centers of active galaxies. XTE's All Sky Monitor (ASM) scanned the sky every 90 minutes to find new X-ray transients and track the variability of old ones. XTE had a planned life time of two years."

#nasa #space #cosmos #universe #astronomy #astrophysics #astrophotography #space exploration #x rays

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spacetimewithstuartgary · 1 year

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Hubble finds hungry black hole twisting captured star into donut shape Black holes are gatherers, not hunters. They lie in wait until a hapless star wanders by. When the star gets close enough, the black hole's gravitational grasp violently rips it apart and sloppily devours its gasses while belching out intense radiation. Astronomers using NASA's Hubble Space Telescope have recorded a star's final moments in detail as it gets gobbled up by a black hole. These are termed "tidal disruption events." But the wording belies the complex, raw violence of a black hole encounter. There is a balance between the black hole's gravity pulling in star stuff, and radiation blowing material out. In other words, black holes are messy eaters. Astronomers are using Hubble to find out the details of what happens when a wayward star plunges into the gravitational abyss. Hubble can't photograph the AT2022dsb tidal event's mayhem up close, since the munched-up star is nearly 300 million light-years away at the core of the galaxy ESO 583-G004. But astronomers used Hubble's powerful ultraviolet sensitivity to study the light from the shredded star, which include hydrogen, carbon, and more. The spectroscopy provides forensic clues to the black hole homicide. About 100 tidal disruption events around black holes have been detected by astronomers using various telescopes. NASA recently reported that several of its high-energy space observatories spotted another black hole tidal disruption event on March 1, 2021, and it happened in another galaxy. Unlike Hubble observations, data was collected in X-ray light from an extremely hot corona around the black hole that formed after the star was already torn apart. "However, there are still very few tidal events that are observed in ultraviolet light given the observing time. This is really unfortunate because there's a lot of information that you can get from the ultraviolet spectra," said Emily Engelthaler of the Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian (CfA) in Cambridge, Massachusetts. "We're excited because we can get these details about what the debris is doing. The tidal event can tell us a lot about a black hole." Changes in the doomed star's condition are taking place on the order of days or months. For any given galaxy with a quiescent supermassive black hole at the center, it's estimated that the stellar shredding happens only a few times in every 100,000 years. This AT2022dsb stellar snacking event was first caught on March 1, 2022 by the All-Sky Automated Survey for Supernovae (ASAS-SN or "Assassin"), a network of ground-based telescopes that surveys the extragalactic sky roughly once a week for violent, variable, and transient events that are shaping our universe. This energetic collision was close enough to Earth and bright enough for the Hubble astronomers to do ultraviolet spectroscopy over a longer than normal period of time. "Typically, these events are hard to observe. You get maybe a few observations at the beginning of the disruption when it's really bright. Our program is different in that it is designed to look at a few tidal events over a year to see what happens," said Peter Maksym of the CfA. "We saw this early enough that we could observe it at these very intense black hole accretion stages. We saw the accretion rate drop as it turned to a trickle over time." The Hubble spectroscopic data are interpreted as coming from a very bright, hot, donut-shaped area of gas that was once the star. This area, known as a torus, is the size of the solar system and is swirling around a black hole in the middle. "We're looking somewhere on the edge of that donut. We're seeing a stellar wind from the black hole sweeping over the surface that's being projected towards us at speeds of 20 million miles per hour (three percent the speed of light)," said Maksym. "We really are still getting our heads around the event. You shred the star and then it's got this material that's making its way into the black hole. And so you've got models where you think you know what is going on, and then you've got what you actually see. This is an exciting place for scientists to be: right at the interface of the known and the unknown." The results were reported at the 241st meeting of the American Astronomical Society in Seattle, Washington. The Hubble Space Telescope is a project of international cooperation between NASA and ESA. NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, manages the telescope. The Space Telescope Science Institute (STScI) in Baltimore, Maryland, conducts Hubble and Webb science operations. STScI is operated for NASA by the Association of Universities for Research in Astronomy, in Washington, D.C. IMAGE....This sequence of artist's illustrations shows how a black hole can devour a bypassing star. 1. A normal star passes near a supermassive black hole in the center of a galaxy. 2. The star's outer gasses are pulled into the black hole's gravitational field. 3. The star is shredded as tidal forces pull it apart. 4. The stellar remnants are pulled into a donut-shaped ring around the black hole, and will eventually fall into the black hole, unleashing a tremendous amount of light and high-energy radiation. CREDIT NASA, ESA, Leah Hustak (STScI)

#space #science #Astronomy #physics #news #stellar evolution #Black Hole #nasa

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auburniivenus · 5 months

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eyes shift from their melancholy grey to a soft blue as they turn towards the auburn , normally shied visage painted with something a bit more akin to a brilliance. nature itself was something that appease every edge of the painters mind , as its glory in color and vast reactive atmosphere left the imaginative state of Hwei at full pique. for nature showed colors even he could never bring forth with such a mind as his. the edges of twin flesh curl upward in slight , her suggestion filling his chest with a warmth that he could never put into words for her.

❛ the idea sounds grand. ❜ soft spoken he was , there was a teetering excitement dancing along the end of his sentence. gentle is his hand to reach forward , thin fingers light in their curl around her wrist to pull her along. each step , slow in approach yet graceful in its own way , to lead towards the pelting of water that fell so beautifully from the sky. a halt in steps and gaze turns upward , peering upon the grey-blue sky. there , he felt more alive , as soft rumbles elated the space and rain slid down youthful appearance. that smile from before , growing ever more. ❛ go on. dance. i will watch. ❜ @empyreous

KILLING LONELINESS. A magnificently sublime and utterly resplendent afternoon unfurled, bedecked in the opulent hues of an enraptured cosmos. The ascendant narrative, normally adorned in the gilded filigree of sunbeams, relinquished its sovereign jurisdiction to a symphony of liquid melancholy, wherein raindrops, akin to effulgent celestial serenaders, descended from the immortal vault, delicately pirouetting with a serpentine grace, nourishing the terrestrial expanse in a chorus of sapphire grandeur. “A-Anou…” She felt her exquisite frame being pulled by him. His enthusiasm at her suggestion bewildered her.

The celestial cantata echoed with staccato percussion upon the translucent parasol of existence. Rivulets, akin to transient veins of liquid argent, inscribed sinuous arabesques upon the cobblestone boulevards, a convoluted testament to the dance of dreams forsworn. Beyond the aquatic prism of rain-streaked windows, the world metamorphosed into an ephemeral opus, a pandemonium of luminous hues intermingling in a frenetic fugue of vibrant decadence. Each raindrop, a fleeting crystalline sphere, refracted the dimming luminescence into a hallucinogenic scherzo, casting an incantatory spell of bewitchment upon the quotidian. “Won’t you dance with me?” Orihime felt the petite, strong droplets kiss her persona as they ventured outside, sensing God's baptism.

The fragrance of rain, an olfactory sonnet of unparalleled opulence, wafted through the aether, saturating the senses in the earthy embrace of grandiose resurgence. Amid this aqueous ballet, emotions surged forth in a passionate concerto of ineffable nostalgia. The heart, a forgotten reliquary in the attic of reminiscence, vibrated with the rhythmical reverie of raindrops, each resonance a maelstrom of moments elapsed, drenched in the intoxicating masterpiece of impermanent ECSTASY.

———— And so, as the rain continued its languorous descent, she started moving, pirouetted, and ascended in the torrential downpour, sublime, feeling an epiphany of pleasure and liberation. Raindrops shimmered like diamonds on her porcelain dermis, and her locks blazed like a scorching INFERNO, a radiant sign. Azure hairpins flickered in the grandeur, as if they were conscious and frolicking with her in cadence. Inoue beamed, giggled, letting the rain obliterate her troubles and reticence. The primordial muse, a magnum opus of nature and art, a stellar design dancing for HIM. Movements were elegant and smooth, like a swan soaring on a turquoise reservoir. Amber hues were hypnotizing, like the sun bursting through the charcoal clouds—a golden line. “Come, dance with me.” A palm was offered to the other.

#°❀⋆.ೃ࿔*:･ threads #so i went ape shit with this and ended up writing a novel lol #hope it's okay xD

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looosey · 9 months

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Film Review: Summer Movie Rec Masterlist

Getting this out early for @notesoncrocs, sorry I'll add more descriptors later!

There has not been a more apt time to post a list of recommendations, as a lot of us actual ihouse are apart from each other, away from home. I watched these in the past month, so best believe these are certified fresh.

Movies.

Asteroid City: artsy Wes Anderson film about science fairs and plays, and alien visitations with a star-studded cast.

Past Lives: a slow-burn angsty A24 film about 인연 (in-youn), a Korean American girl and her childhood crush reignite sparks as they live their separate lives throughout the years and reminisce on what could've been. I thought some parts were funny, but movie overall just made me think that ordinary love is unspectacular but still moving/spectacular.

Pride and Prejudice: the classic enemies-to-lover story. I don't know if Mr. Darcy wooed me as a watcher, but I will say the movie captures the feeling of "yearning" really really well, much better than Past Lives.

The Roundup: No Way Out: stellar action movie from Korea. I am a sucker for these.

Barbie: Hilarious and fun for my eyes. Some scenes really hit for me, a deep fear of the world as it is today. Made me think of Virginia Woolf's writing:

"The most transient visitor to this planet, I thought, who picked up this paper could not fail to be aware, even from this scattered testimony, that England is under the rule of a patriarchy. Nobody in their senses could fail to detect the dominance..." - Virginia Woolf's, A Room of One's Own

Nothing Serious: a nerdy columnist is tasked with writing a sex column, so he dives into hook up apps and meets a girl, a low-key sex addict. I liked the blend of fun in the movie, casual sex, and the more moral questions, ethics of surveillance.

Argo: Action movie about the CIA operation in the 1979 Iranian hostage crisis that put together a whole fake Hollywood alien movie script/company in order to extract 6 Americans who escaped the embassy and were hiding in Tehran for months.

TV Shows.

Atlanta: College dropout (Donald Glover) sees his cousins rise as a rapper as a way to change their lives. The humor, the colors in the shots, the range of the fundamental human experiences covered, and the crazy crazy episodes that leap out of the story line, make this show like no other I've ever seen.

My Mister: Written by my favorite kdrama TV-writer, a girl in her early 20s lives a miserable, lonely, guilt-ridden life, chased by loansharks, burdened her ailing grandmother, and with no hope for any better. She enters a 9-5 company as a temp, and meets an older married guy who is as miserable as she is. She likes him a lot and the drama teeters around her morals and their ill-adjustment to society.

My Liberation Notes: Same writer, this time a depiction of what it's like to be in the outskirts of Seoul life, but quite literally/geographically. A girl in her late 20s finds little meaning in what every one in her Seoul office find meaningful, nor her family in the country side. This ones as equally about familial love as it is about romance, about hatred.

Beef: Y'all have all already watched it already. I'm watching it again with Hanu and Diego.

#movie recommendations #tv recommendations #tv shows #kdrama #netflix

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religion-is-a-mental-illness · 1 year

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By: Ellen Phiddian

Published: May 4, 2023

Astronomers have observed a dying star engulfing a planet for the first time. It’s something that’s likely to happen to Earth in a few billion years.

While the precursors and after-effects of stars engulfing planets have been observed before, this is the first time a star’s been caught sucking in a planet that strayed too close.

[ Artist's impression. Astronomers have captured a star in the act of engulfing a planet. Credit: International Gemini Observatory/NOIRLab/NSF/AURA/M. Garlick/M. Zamani ]

This happens when Sun-like stars get old, expanding in size until they’ve engulfed planets in their star systems.

It’s estimated to only happen a few times a year in the Milky Way, making it a difficult to observe.

The researchers who have just published their observation in Nature, first spotted the evidence of planetary engulfment in May 2020, when they saw a bright flash on a star 12,000 light-years away, in the Aquila constellation.

They were looking for flashes from stellar binaries with data from the Zwicky Transient Facility (ZTF).

Binary star systems occasionally get brighter, as mass from one star is pulled into the other.

“One night, I noticed a star that brightened by a factor of 100 over the course of a week, out of nowhere,” says lead author Dr Kishalay De, a researcher at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), US.

“It was unlike any stellar outburst I had seen in my life.”

When he cross-referenced this data against observations from the Keck Observatory in Hawaii, De couldn’t find any of the tell-tale chemical signatures that binary eruptions normally give off.

Next, the researchers looked at infrared data from the Palomar Observatory.

“That infrared data made me fall off my chair,” says De.

“The source was insanely bright in the near-infrared.”

This could have indicated that the flash was a red nova – an explosion from two merging stars.

But data from NASA’s infrared space telescope, NEOWISE, showed that the explosion was too small – about one thousandth the size of even a small stellar merger.

“That means that whatever merged with the star has to be 1,000 times smaller than any other star we’ve seen,” says De.

“And it’s a happy coincidence that the mass of Jupiter is about 1/1,000 the mass of the sun. That’s when we realized: This was a planet, crashing into its star.”

[ Stars like our Sun turn hydrogen into helium in their cores – until they get to old age, when the hydrogen runs out. At this point, helium starts fusing into carbon, and the outer layers of the star expand outwards and glow red as they get cooler. This engulf planets in the inner star system – and when a planet is engulfed, it triggers a flashy outburst of energy and material. Credit: International Gemini Observatory/NOIRLab/NSF/AURA/P. Marenfeld ]

The researchers believe that the planet was between about one and 10 times the mass of Jupiter.

The initial flash from the planet’s engulfment lasted 10 days, followed by 100 days of a bright infrared emission caused by the engulfing star ejecting material.

“I think there’s something pretty remarkable about these results that speaks to the transience of our existence,” says co-author Dr Ryan Lau, an astronomer at the US National Science Foundation’s NOIRLab.

“After the billions of years that span the lifetime of our Solar System, our own end stages will likely conclude in a final flash that lasts only a few months.”

[ An aging star dubbed ZTF SLRN-2020 has been caught in the act of swallowing a planet. Credit: K. Miller/R. Hurt (Caltech/PAC) ]

#astronomy #Cosmos Magazine #Gemini South #space #religion is a mental illness

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hdminseon-archive · 1 year

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━━ : 𝐁𝐔𝐑𝐃𝐄𝐍 𝐎𝐅 𝐌𝐈𝐍𝐄 .

DATED: mid-february 2023 FEATURING: hyde academy contestants & staff ( named references + npc's ) WORD COUNT: 1,460

EVERYTHING IS SOFTER UNDERWATER, INDISTINCT OUTLINES AMID MUTED TONES.

Minseon's eyes fall shut, and he wonders briefly if, to the casual observer, underwater, he seems that way too — gentle and silken and pliable — or... if he just looks the way he's always been, the way he's angular in a way that bites, treacherous creature in still waters.

( — Unfortunately, here, he's in the pool alone, and he cannot see outside of himself, so he does not have an answer. Instead, he tries to let himself sink.

And finds that he floats, of course. )

It is 4:58 on the morning following their first night in Paju. Minseon is twenty years and almost two days old now, and already, he has had too much to think. His thoughts circle back to the way his stomach somersaulted when project staff had smiled and said 'get well acquainted'. It'd felt, to him, like a sentencing, but he watched some of the other boys fall over each other, cheer, draw up plans for the coming week, and determined the feeling wasn't universal. He withdrew to one of the studio rooms and did not emerge until he felt it was safe to do so.

He surfaces now and takes a desperate gulp of air. He'd half-expected The Boy to turn up at some point, but it's foolish to think The Boy would ever make an appearance when he's not unwanted. Slippery little fucker. Minseon is appalled that he'd even consider his transient nightmares something to look forward to. It's probably a byproduct of having no one to talk with— or, more accurately, it's a byproduct of having talked with no one. Because it's not as if the options aren't there. Minseon is already more than well-acquainted with a handful of contestants; it's just... he's not the type of person who reaches out to others. People either run into him or they don't. He is a specter who speaks only when spoken to, and that's probably why staff sandwiched his name between Jamie Han and Mason Lee's for the pairing sequence.

They need A-roll, after all. Not just some throwaway footage of a ghost haunting the manor.

Minseon treads to the edge of the pool so he can catch his reflection in one of the windows lining the walls. Ever since they announced the initial groups for their first day onscreen, he's been mired in uncertainty, not sure if he's meant to feel reassured by the decision or if it was issued to him like some sort of pre-production challenge. He can't help but already feel out of place, wedged between two of the most radiant people he knows, a pair much closer to each other than anyone here is to Minseon. At this point, he's already given up on making a stellar first impression to the public; he only hopes he's able to skirt by without dimming either of his friends' respective lights. Modest ambitions. He tries to recall what their smiles look like.

A cheap imitation of that recollection pulls tentatively at his lips, but the image reflected in the window is enough to startle him that it immediately drops into a scowl. This expression looks much more natural on his features, but... he tries the pastiche again.

( And even when he's prepared for it, it's still incredibly unsettling. )

Minseon presses his palms to his eyes. "Christ, I'm gonna make myself puke."

His heart nearly falls out his ass when he hears a stifled giggle punctuate the end of that sentence. The mortification that follows is so great, he hardly feels he has the strength to turn around.

But when he does, he's greeted by two members of production staff.

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Joonhee's companion levels her with a look so sharp, her body immediately folds itself into a ninety-degree bow. She hadn't meant anything unkind by her tittering; it's just... five in the morning, and there's a boy in the pool making faces at the window. She's stressed, hasn't really accounted for this week-long break, and the whole thing feels like they've accidentally taken twenty of the world's most repressed children on the first vacation of their lives.

Nevertheless, she clears her throat. "Apologies, we didn't mean to interrupt! We'd just wanted a shot of the sun rising over the pool window—"

"I'll get out," the kid says. And she recognizes him. Of course she does: Kang Minseon, one of the brand options of the show, completed his quarterly evaluation with high marks.

Beyond facts and figures, Joonhee doesn't know much else about him.

"... We didn't think anyone would be here so early," her companion, Hojin, chimes in. He doesn't look up from where he's already arranging his filming equipment. To an untrained eye, he accomplishes this work with deft fingers, but Joonhee has been by his side for a little over six months, and she knows he's feigning indifference solely for the comfort of their unexpected little guest.

Minseon moves to climb out of the pool, and Joonhee hurries to envelop him in a towel. He looks embarrassed with the attention. "... Sorry, I just wanted to wake up earlier... clear my head 'nd...... go for a swim......" Their eyes meet, and Joonhee is certain that he has just told her a lie. He hasn't slept.

"... 'Clear your head'? Is there anything you want to share?" she broaches gently.

He says: "Sure."

( But she doubts this young man has ever been 'sure' of anything in his life. )

He takes a pause. "Um......... 's there anything you want me to share?"

And this time, Joonhee is successful in swallowing down her giggles. "Anything you feel comfortable sharing," she assures him. "Any confusion you might be feeling, or... worries about the show, or... questions? — You don't need to. I just wanted to offer myself as a resource, in case—"

"I have a question, then," he says. And from the way it's already on the tip of his tongue, Joonhee can tell it's a question that's been given much thought. "After we film Volume I of the show, ... do y' think the company will give us..... —" He tapers off before finishing his sentence. There's a short stretch of silence in which Joonhee wonders if she's meant to ask a followup. But before she can open her mouth, he suddenly continues: "Do you think they'll give the eliminated contestants time to go home? ... Maybe...... take a break before they go back to training?"

Hojin's hands stop moving.

Minseon looks down at Joonhee with his lips pursed in expectation.

She's at a loss. It's not really the question she'd been expecting. "I'm not—" she stammers. Shit. She's only involved as far as taking care of contestants who'll be on the show, not... "Um," she starts, voice wavering, "I'm really not sure about that, but— I don't think it's out of the question! I really doubt that it's out of the question..."

Minseon says, "Mm." Joonhee can't be sure that he's satisfied by that answer, but he still dips his head into a small bow and adds, "Okay. Thank you."

He moves to pick up his jacket from one of the pool chairs at the same time she blurts out, "I'll walk you to the elevators."

The offer gives him some pause. "... Okay. Thank you."

For the next fifteen seconds, they walk in silence.

As they wait for an elevator, Joonhee struggles to think of something to make Minseon feel better, already has a list of names she can ask for the answer to his question, but Minseon interrupts her thought process with another inquiry, one she almost misses because it's nearly inaudible: "When you first came in, ... did you laugh 'cause I looked funny...?"

Joonhee wants the floor to swallow her whole. "No! ... No. I apologize. I only laughed out of disbelief at the situation, and I'm— so sorry if I made you feel like I was laughing at you. I promise it wasn't my intention."

Minseon nods. " 's alright. ...... I do... think I looked kinda funny, so. Either way, 's fine with me." And the smile that pulls at his lips is crooked, but it doesn't look out of place there. Joonhee wishes she could convey that to him.

"Please have some confidence!" she implores. "The cameras will love you. Just... make sure to be yourself."

The elevator doors open, and Minseon moves forward. "Thank you," he says, vacantly.

As Junhee watches him step inside, it doesn't escape her attention that he draws his jacket tightly over the slope of his shoulders. He looks small that way, standing in the elevator alone. He looks...

The doors close. Junhee doesn't move.

. . .

He looks lonely.

#✧ –––– featuring ... kang minseon.#hd:tasks #hd:has1 #using this as a character dissection but then i got attached to my random npc's 😪 ...................................

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arxt1 · 2 years

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Looking at Luminous Fast Blue Optical Transients through Neutrino Glasses. (arXiv:2205.12282v1 [astro-ph.HE])

Mounting evidence suggests that Luminous Fast Blue Optical Transients (LFBOTs) are powered by a compact object, launching an asymmetric and fast outflow responsible for the radiation observed in the ultraviolet, optical, infrared, radio, and X-ray bands. Proposed scenarios aiming to explain the electromagnetic emission include an inflated cocoon, surrounding a jet choked in the extended stellar envelope. In alternative, the observed radiation may arise from the disk formed by the delayed merger of a black hole with a Wolf-Rayet star. We explore the neutrino production in these scenarios, i.e. internal shocks in a choked jet and interaction between the outflow and the circumstellar medium (CSM). The choked jet provides the dominant contribution to the neutrino fluence. Intriguingly, the IceCube upper limit on the neutrino emission inferred from the closest LFBOT, AT2018cow, excludes a region of the parameter space otherwise allowed by electromagnetic observations. After correcting for the Eddington bias on the observation of cosmic neutrinos, we conclude that the emission from a choked jet and CSM interaction is compatible with the detection of two track-like neutrino events observed by the IceCube Neutrino Observatory in coincidence with AT2018cow, and otherwise considered to be of atmospheric origin. While the neutrino emission from LFBOTs does not constitute the bulk of the diffuse background of neutrinos observed by IceCube, detection prospects of nearby LFBOTs with IceCube and the upcoming IceCube-Gen2 are encouraging; neutrinos could be observed up to $300$ Mpc and $10^{4}$ Mpc from the CSM interaction and choked jet, respectively. Follow-up neutrino searches will be crucial for unravelling the mechanism powering this emergent transient class.

from astro-ph.HE updates on arXiv.org https://ift.tt/LPtya85

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denimbex1986 · 3 months

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'The ending of All of Us Strangers strikes a chord with audiences, eliciting a range of emotions from empathy to catharsis as Adam grapples with his past and embraces the present.

The All Of Us Strangers Ending Explained

All of Us Strangers is a deeply emotional and introspective film that explores themes of loss, trauma, and the complexities of human relationships. The ending, in particular, offers a poignant resolution to Adam's journey as he grapples with his past and confronts his inner demons.

The revelation of Adam's childhood trauma, including the loss of his parents in a car accident, serves as a catalyst for his emotional journey throughout the film. His encounters with his parents' apparitions provide moments of solace and closure, yet also highlight his struggle to let go and move forward.

The final scene, where Adam begs for one last day with his parents, encapsulates the film's themes of acceptance and letting go. As his parents gradually fade away, Adam is forced to confront the reality of his loss and find strength in his memories.

The inclusion of Harry's death adds another layer of complexity to the narrative, highlighting the transient nature of life and the importance of cherishing the moments we have with loved ones. Adam's decision to stay by Harry's side, even in death, underscores his capacity for empathy and compassion. Overall, the ending of "All of Us Strangers" is both heartbreaking and hopeful, offering a nuanced portrayal of grief and the power of human connection.

The All Of Us Strangers

All of Us Strangers sounds like a captivating adaptation of Taichi Yamada's novel, blending elements of romance and fantasy with a talented cast and the creative vision of director Andrew Haigh. Premiering at the prestigious Telluride Film Festival and receiving critical acclaim is a testament to the film's quality and impact.

The stellar performances of Andrew Scott, Paul Mescal, Jamie Bell, and Claire Foy likely contributed to the film's success, bringing depth and emotion to their characters. It's impressive to see the film garner recognition from institutions like the National Board of Review and receive multiple nominations at the BAFTA Awards, highlighting its significance in the realm of independent cinema.

With its release in both the United States and the United Kingdom, "All of Us Strangers" has undoubtedly left a lasting impression on audiences worldwide, inviting them to explore themes of love, loss, and the supernatural. It's a testament to the power of storytelling and the ability of film to transport viewers to other worlds while resonating with universal emotions.

The All Of Us Strangers Plot

In All of Us Strangers, lonely London screenwriter Adam meets his neighbor Harry, who tries to flirt with him while drunk. Adam, initially hesitant, eventually reciprocates Harry's interest after a visit to his childhood home where he encounters the spirits of his deceased parents.

As Adam and Harry grow closer, Adam opens up about his struggles, including coming out as gay to his mother and dealing with the trauma of losing his parents at a young age. Their relationship deepens, but Adam's unresolved issues with his past continue to haunt him, especially when he imagines a future with Harry while under the influence of drugs.

Through encounters with his parents' spirits and moments of introspection, Adam gradually comes to terms with his grief and accepts the need to let go of his parents' memory to find happiness. This realization is reinforced when he discovers Harry dead in his apartment, prompting Adam to comfort his spirit and find solace in their shared connection. Ultimately, All of Us Strangers is a story about love, loss, and the healing power of acceptance, told through the lens of a poignant and supernatural romance.

The All Of Us Strangers Cast

Andrew Scott - Adam

Carter John Grout - Young Adam

Paul Mescal - Harry

Jamie Bell - Adam's father

Claire Foy - Adam's mother

Ami Tredrea - Waitress

The All Of Us Strangers Release Date

The movie premiered at the Telluride Film Festival on August 31, 2023, and also showed at the New York Film Festival on October 1, 2023. It was part of the main competition at the Valladolid International Film Festival. In Ireland, it premiered at the Cork International Film Festival on November 19, 2023, at the Everyman Theatre.

The QCinema International Film Festival held three screenings of the film on November 19, 20, and 24, 2023. It started showing in theaters in the United States on December 22, 2023 and is set to be released in the United Kingdom on January 26, 2024.

The All Of Us Strangers Where to Watch

If you want to watch the movie "All of Us Strangers," you can go to a movie theater in the United States starting from December 22, 2023. Just check the listings at your local theater to see when it's playing and buy tickets to watch it on the big screen. Similarly, if you're in the United Kingdom, you can catch the film in theaters starting from January 26, 2024...'

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About 40,000 light-years away, a rapidly spinning object has a companion that’s confounding astronomers. It’s heavier than the heaviest neutron stars, yet at the same time, it’s lighter than the lightest black holes. Measurements place it in the so-called black hole mass gap, an observed gap in the stellar population between two to five solar masses. There appear to be no neutron stars larger than two solar masses and no black holes smaller than five solar masses. Astronomers working in the Transients and Pulsars with MeerKAT (TRAPUM) collaboration found the object named PSR J0514-4002E in a globular cluster named NGC 1851. It’s an “eccentric binary millisecond pulsar,” according to the authors of a new research article in Science. The total mass of the pulsar’s companion object is 3.887 ± 0.004 solar masses, placing it right in the black hole mass gap. What is it? The new research article is titled “A Pulsar in a Binary with a Compact Object in the Mass Gap Between Neutron Stars and Black Holes.” The lead author is Ewan Barr from the Max Planck Institute for Radio Astronomy. It’s published in the journal Science. Barr and his colleagues found the object orbiting a rapidly spinning millisecond pulsar. A pulsar is a rotating neutron star resulting from a supernova explosion. Pulsars emit beams of electromagnetic energy from their poles as they spin. If the orientation between Earth and the pulsar is right, we see the pulsar’s flashes. That’s why they’re referred to as cosmic lighthouses. A millisecond pulsar has a rotational period between 1 and 10 milliseconds. That means it revolves from 60,000 to 6,000 times per minute. Pulsars are fast-spinning neutron stars that emit narrow, sweeping beams of radio waves. NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center Pulsars are powerful tools because of their rapid and predictable spinning. The pulsar timing technique measures the pulses with precision, and any changes are noted. Those changes indicate the presence of another body, its mass, and its distance from the pulsar. “Think of it like being able to drop an almost perfect stopwatch into orbit around a star almost 40,000 light years away and then being able to time those orbits with microsecond precision,” said lead author Barr. In this research, the astronomers used the pulsar’s timing to detect the object in binary relationship with it. But it couldn’t tell them what it is. Could it be a binary system containing a pulsar and a black hole? Or could it be a pulsar and a neutron star? Could it be something else? Astronomers have never found a system containing a pulsar and a black hole, but they’d really like to. These pairings present a new way to study black holes and could also serve as a new test for Einstein’s general relativity. It the companion isn’t a small black hole but instead is a heavy neutron star, that’s scientifically valuable for a different reason. “Either possibility for the nature of the companion is exciting,” said Ben Stappers, Professor of Astrophysics at Manchester University and one of the co-authors. “A pulsar–black hole system will be an important target for testing theories of gravity, and a heavy neutron star will provide new insights in nuclear physics at very high densities.” Neutron stars are extremely dense compact objects that remain after a massive star collapses and explodes as a supernova. Neutron stars can collapse even further if they gain mass by interacting with another stellar object. But astrophysicists don’t know what these neutron stars become after they collapse. They could become black holes. This artist’s impression shows a neutron star and a companion. Neutron stars can acquire mass from companions that get too close. If they gather enough mass, they collapse even further. Image Credit: ESO/L. Calçada This is where the black hole mass gap comes into play. Scientists think that for a neutron star to collapse, it needs to have about 2.2 times the mass of the Sun. That’s the threshold needed for a collapse to occur. But theory and observation both show that these collapsed neutron stars could create black holes that are five times more massive than the Sun. This gives rise to the black hole mass gap. Astrophysicists are uncertain about the nature of objects that lie in the mass gap. There’s something there, as these observations show, but the nature of the object is difficult to discern. Whatever the companion is, the authors think it resulted from a merger of two neutron stars. “We propose that the companion formed in a merger between two earlier NSs,” they write. If the companion is a massive neutron star, then it could be a pulsar. But the authors couldn’t detect any pulsations. “We searched for radio pulsations from the companion, assuming the full allowed range of mass ratios, but did not detect any,” they explain. The binary object’s origins could explain what the object is, and astrophysicists have detailed models of binary evolution. Those models indicate that mass transfer was involved somehow. “The combination of the location in a dense globular cluster (where stellar exchange encounters often occur), the highly eccentric orbit, the fast spin of the pulsar and the large companion massindicates that the PSR J0514?4002E system is the product of a secondary exchange encounter,” the researchers explain in their article. The binary object is in NGC 1851, a densely-packed globular cluster about 40,000 light-years away. By NASA Hubble Space Telescope – Caldwell 73, CC BY 2.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=97660597 The authors think that an earlier companion object of lower mass transferred mass to the pulsar. Those types of interactions are more likely in a globular cluster like the one the binary object is located in, where stars are tightly packed. The pulsar also rotates very rapidly, another indication that it gained mass from a companion. If this was the case, then, somehow, the current companion object replaced the previous companion. “However, a more complicated evolution with multiple exchange encounters is also possible,” the researchers explain. “We, therefore, cannot infer the nature of the companion from binary evolution models.” For now, the nature of the object is up in the air. “We, therefore, cannot determine whether the companion is a massive NS or a low-mass BH,” the authors write. But they might one day. “We’re not done with this system yet,” said co-author Arunima Dutta from MPIA. “Uncovering the true nature of the companion will be a turning point in our understanding of neutron stars, black holes, and whatever else might be lurking in the black hole mass gap.” The post Is this the Lightest Black Hole or Heaviest Neutron Star? appeared first on Universe Today.

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Lightest Black Hole or Heaviest Neutron Star? Manchester Astronomers Uncover a Mysterious Object in Milky Way - Technology Org

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Lightest Black Hole or Heaviest Neutron Star? Manchester Astronomers Uncover a Mysterious Object in Milky Way - Technology Org

An international astronomer team has found a new and unknown object in the Milky Way that is heavier than the heaviest neutron stars known and simultaneously lighter than the lightest black holes known.

An artist’s impression of the system assuming that the massive companion star is a black hole. The brightest background star is its orbital companion, the radio pulsar PSR J0514-4002E. The two stars are separated by 8 million km and circle each other every 7 days. Image credit: University of Manchester

Using the MeerKAT Radio Telescope, astronomers from a number of institutions including The University of Manchester and the Max Planck Institute for Radio Astronomy in Germany found an object in orbit around a rapidly spinning millisecond pulsar located around 40,000 light years away in a dense group of stars known as a globular cluster.

Using the clock-like ticks from the millisecond pulsar they showed that the massive object lies in the so-called black hole mass gap.

It could be the first discovery of the much-coveted radio pulsar – black hole binary; a stellar pairing that could allow new tests of Einstein’s general relativity and open doors to the study of black holes.

The results are published today in the journal Science.

When a neutron star – the ultra-dense remains of dead star – acquire too much mass, usually by consuming or colliding with another star, they will collapse. What they become after they collapse is the cause of much speculation, but it is believed that they could become black holes – objects so gravitationally attractive that even light cannot escape them.

Astronomers believe that the total mass required for a neutron star to collapse is 2.2 times the mass of the sun. Theory, backed by observation, tells us that the lightest black holes created by these stars are much larger, at about five times more massive than the Sun, giving rise to what is known as the ‘black hole mass gap’.

The nature of compact objects in this mass gap is unknown and detailed study has so far proved challenging. The discovery of the object may help finally understand these objects.

Prof Stappers, added: “The ability of the extremely sensitive MeerKAT telescope to reveal and study these objects is a enabling a great step forward and provides us with a glimpse of what will be possible with the Square Kilometre Array.”

The team used the sensitive MeerKAT radio telescope, located in the Karoo semi-desert in South Africa. assuming that the massive companion star is a black hole. The brightest background star is its orbital companion, the radio pulsar PSR J0514-4002E. The two stars are separated by 8 million km and circle each other every 7 days. Image credit: MeerKAT

The discovery of the object was made while observing a large cluster of stars known as NGC 1851 located in the southern constellation of Columba, using the MeerKAT telescope.

The globular cluster NGC 1851 is a dense collection of old stars that are much more tightly packed than the stars in the rest of the Galaxy. Here, it is so crowded that the stars can interact with each other, disrupting orbits and in the most extreme cases colliding.

The astronomers, part of the international Transients and Pulsars with MeerKAT (TRAPUM) collaboration, believe that it is one such collision between two neutron stars that is proposed to have created the massive object that now orbits the radio pulsar.

The team were able to detect faint pulses from one of the stars, identifying it as a radio pulsar – a type of neutron star that spins rapidly and shines beams of radio light into the Universe like a cosmic lighthouse.

The pulsar spins more than 170 times a second, with every rotation producing a rhythmic pulse, like the ticking of a clock. The ticking of these pulses is incredibly regular and by observing how the times of the ticks change, using a technique called pulsar timing, they were able to make extremely precise measurements of its orbital motion.

The regular timing also allowed a very precise measurement of the system’s location, showing that the object in orbit with the pulsar was no regular star but an extremely dense remnant of a collapsed star. Observations also showed that the companion has a mass that was simultaneously bigger than that of any known neutron star and yet smaller than that of any known black hole, placing it squarely in the black-hole mass gap.

While the team cannot conclusively say whether they have discovered the most massive neutron star known, the lightest black hole known or even some new exotic star variant, what is certain is that they have uncovered a unique laboratory for probing the properties of matter under the most extreme conditions in the Universe.

Arunima Dutta concludes: “We’re not done with this system yet.

“Uncovering the true nature of the companion will a turning point in our understanding of neutron stars, black holes, and whatever else might be lurking in the black hole mass gap.”

Source: University of Manchester

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Futurism: Dead Star Springs Back to Life

"We'd never seen that, period, in astronomy."

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These are the undead cosmic flares of a killer, Bella.

As Space.com reports, scientists at Cornell University have detected renewed signs of life in a deceased star — a striking, never-before-seen discovery offering researchers an illuminating glimpse into the exotic netherworld of star births and deaths.

The far-off star in question, located roughly a billion lightyears from Earth in a distant galaxy and affectionately nicknamed "the Tasmanian Devil," was already considered rare due to the nature of its initial death. When it died, it triggered something called a "luminous fast blue optical transient," or LFBOT — a massive, superpowerful cataclysm that gave off an intense blue glow. But while LFBOTs shine brighter than more common supernovas, as Space.com notes, they're known to fade faster, flaming out within just days.

Until now, that is. According to the Cornell astronomers' research, which was published yesterday in the journal Nature, the Tasmanian Devil LFBOT is still radiating intermittent flashes of blue light, as powerful and radiant as the star's original cataclysmic flares — a fascinating glimmer of activity from a stellar corpse.

"We had never seen anything like that before — something so fast, and the brightness as strong as the original explosion months later — in any supernova or FBOT," Anna Ho, an assistant professor of astronomy at the university, said in a statement. "We'd never seen that, period, in astronomy."

Tasmanian Devil

Per a university press release, Ho first spotted the Tasmanian Devil a little over a year ago in September 2022 while sieving through data from the Zwicky Transient Facility. The researcher and her team kept an eye on the rare celestial event as it faded, and were taken aback to notice, weeks later, that the presumed dead star was continuing to emit sporadic, minutes-long flares.

Using observations from over a dozen different telescopes, the team continued to monitor the celestial site, ultimately concluding that the maybe-not-so-dead star emitted 14 separate, powerful LFBOT-like flares over the course of 120 days.

"Amazingly, instead of fading steadily as one would expect, the source briefly brightened again — and again, and again," said Ho. "LFBOTs are already a kind of weird, exotic event, so this was even weirder."

Even in death, it seems, stars might just be more alive than we think.

The "corpse is not just sitting there," said Ho, "it's active and doing things that we can detect."

More on stars: Scientists Puzzled by Stars That Disappeared from the Sky

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Astronomers discover signs of life in a star’s explosive death

After a distant star’s explosive death, an active stellar corpse was the likely source of repeated energetic flares observed over several months – a phenomenon astronomers had never seen before, a Cornell-led team reports in new research published Nov. 15 in Nature.

The bright, brief flashes – as short as a few minutes in duration, and as powerful as the original explosion 100 days later – appeared in the aftermath of a rare type of stellar cataclysm that the researchers had set out to find, known as a luminous fast blue optical transient, or LFBOT.

Since their discovery in 2018, astronomers have speculated about what might drive such extreme explosions, which are far brighter than the violent ends massive stars typically experience, but fade in days instead of weeks. The research team believes the previously unknown flare activity, which was studied by 15 telescopes around the world, confirms the engine must be a stellar corpse: a black hole or neutron star.

“We don’t think anything else can make these kinds of flares,” said Anna Y. Q. Ho, assistant professor of astronomy in the College of Arts and Sciences. “This settles years of debate about what powers this type of explosion, and reveals an unusually direct method of studying the activity of stellar corpses.”

Ho is the first author of “Minutes-duration Optical Flares with Supernova Luminosities,” published with more than 70 co-authors who helped characterize the LFBOT officially labeled AT2022tsd and nicknamed “the Tasmanian devil,” and the ensuing pulses of light seen roughly a billion light years from Earth.

Ho wrote the software that flagged the event in September 2022, while sifting through a half-million changes, or transients, detected daily in an all-sky survey conducted by the Califrnia-based Zwicky Transient Facility.

Then in December 2022, while routinely monitoring the fading explosion, Ho and collaborators Daniel Perley of Liverpool John Moores University in England, and Ping Chen of the Weizmann Institute of Science in Israel, met to review new observations conducted and analyzed by Ping – a set of five images, each spanning several minutes. The first showed nothing, as expected, but the second picked up light, followed by an intensely bright spike in the middle frame that quickly vanished.

“No one really knew what to say,” Ho recalled. “We had never seen anything like that before – something so fast, and the brightness as strong as the original explosion months later – in any supernova or FBOT. We’d never seen that, period, in astronomy.”

To further investigate the abrupt rebrightening, the researchers engaged partners who contributed observations from more than a dozen other telescopes, including one equipped with a high-speed camera. The team combed through earlier data and worked to rule out other possible light sources. Their analysis ultimately confirmed at least 14 irregular light pulses over a 120-day period, likely only a fraction of the total number, Ho said.

“Amazingly, instead of fading steadily as one would expect, the source briefly brightened again – and again, and again,” she said. “LFBOTs are already a kind of weird, exotic event, so this was even weirder.”

Exactly what processes were at work – perhaps a black hole funneling jets of stellar material outward at close to the speed of light – continues to be studied. Ho hopes the research advances longstanding goals to map how stars’ properties in life may predict the way they’ll die, and the type of corpse they produce.

In the case of LFBOTs, rapid rotation or a strong magnetic field likely are key components of their launching mechanisms, Ho said. It’s also possible that they aren’t conventional supernovas at all, instead triggered by a star’s merger with a black hole.

“We might be seeing a completely different channel for cosmic cataclysms,” she said.

The unusual explosions promise to provide new insight into stellar lifecycles typically only seen in snapshots of different stages – star, explosion, remnants – and not as part of a single system, Ho said. LFBOTs may present an opportunity to observe a star in the act of transitioning to its afterlife.

“Because the corpse is not just sitting there, it’s active and doing things that we can detect,” Ho said. “We think these flares could be coming from one of these newly formed corpses, which gives us a way to study their properties when they’ve just been formed.”

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