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I am so grateful for my family. I’ve got a pretty fantastic one! #givethanks https://www.instagram.com/p/CIFZt1LJLHUf9ES56ExvkuQFmt5DfVQYLURD3o0/?igshid=fr1sqfusu5ks

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So...I forgot yesterday. But I’m grateful for experiences that make me grow (and the people who help me through them). Getting my motorcycle endorsement was super anxiety-inducing, but was also something I’ve wanted to do for a while. While I don’t have my own bike...yet...just learning how to better manage my anxiety and do hard things has made it worth it. #givethanks https://www.instagram.com/p/CIDTbadJo37CK8hEWHr8W1GzgVOV7aYyhwR1Zk0/?igshid=1dcxfdjssuwwb

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I’m grateful for my dog. Aside from just being absolutely wonderful, she’s also the reason I got up and ran during the summer. #givethanks https://www.instagram.com/p/CIDR9VkJL3Kcv2S6LxMHcuoek6cBrj6cMQUqL40/?igshid=1pknf6zqi1dl

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I’m grateful for people who make others smile. #givethanks https://www.instagram.com/p/CH9qWepp5pt7cXjveFwHswJNvatPPbgfXCMZwI0/?igshid=1h2pafx8waa1d

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I am so grateful for the beauty I’ve seen this year! #givethanks https://www.instagram.com/p/CH7COysJFy6UtK8OWuXI9L5_JhV3GZ8ZKxf_dc0/?igshid=1bpphwyjq20kk

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RAVENCLAW: “Being other than normal is a perilous advantage.” –Natalie Clifford Barney (Scatterings, 1910)

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Trying to find something to motivate myself and I found this little line from Van Gogh

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Comedy peaked when the Star Trek gang landed the cloaked Klingon ship on 20th century Earth and James Tiberius Kirk said “Everyone remember where we parked”

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“I got a fan letter from a young lady. It was a suicide note.

So I called her, and I said, “Hey, this is Jimmy Doohan. Scotty, from Star Trek.” I said, “I’m doing a convention in Indianapolis. I wanna see you there.”

I saw her – boy, I’m telling you, I couldn’t believe what I saw. It was definitely suicide. Somebody had to help her, somehow. And obviously she wasn’t going to the right people.

I said to her, “I’m doing a convention two weeks from now in St. Louis.” And two weeks from then, in somewhere else, you know? She also came to New York - she was able to afford to got to these places. That went on for two or three years, maybe eighteen times. And all I did was talk positive things to her.

And then all of the sudden – nothing. I didn’t hear anything. I had no idea what had happened to her because I never really saved her address.

Eight years later, I get a letter saying, “I do want to thank you so much for what you did for me, because I just got my Master’s degree in electronic engineering.”

That’s…to me, the best thing I’ve ever done in my life.“

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the wizarding world, of course, has mood rings that actually work

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Concept art for young Kirk, Mullet Spock, Cowboy McCoy and an older USS Enterprise from the unmade 1991 movie Star Trek: The Academy Years.

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The infamous duct tape shot from the first Star Trek (2009) trailer.  JJ Abrams joked that it cost $10,000 to airbrush it out of the final movie.

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Strap in for a Tour of the Milky Way

The night sky isn’t flat. If you traveled deep into this part of the sky at the speed of the radio waves leaving this tower, here are some places you could reach.

Jupiter: Travel time – 35 minutes, 49 seconds.

The closest object in this view is the planet Jupiter, brilliant now in the evening sky…and gorgeous when seen up close by our Juno spacecraft. Distance on the night this picture was taken: 400 million miles (644 million kilometers). 

Saturn: Travel time – one hour and 15 minutes.

The next closest is Saturn, another bright “star” in this summer’s sky. On the right, one of the Cassini spacecraft’s last looks. Distance: 843 million miles (1.3 billion kilometers).

Pluto: Light-speed travel time from the radio tower – four hours, 33 minutes.

It’s not visible to the unaided eye, but Pluto is currently found roughly in this direction. Our New Horizons space mission was the first to show us what it looks like. Distance: more than 3 billion miles.

F-type star, HD 1698330: Light-speed travel time from the radio tower – 123 years.

Within this patch of sky, there’s an F-type star called HD 169830. At this speed, it would take you 123 years to get there. We now know it has at least two planets (one of which is imagined here) — just two of more than 4,000 we’ve found…so far.

The Lagoon Nebula: Light-speed travel time from the radio tower – 4,000 years.

If you look closely, you’ll see a fuzzy patch of light and color here. If you look *really* closely, as our Hubble Space Telescope did, you’ll see the Lagoon Nebula, churning with stellar winds from newborn stars.

Black hole, Sagittarius A*: Light-speed travel time from the radio tower – 26,000 years.

In 26,000 years, after passing millions of stars, you could reach the center of our galaxy. Hidden there behind clouds of dust is a massive black hole. It’s hidden, that is, unless you use our Chandra X-ray Observatory which captured the x-ray flare seen here.

The next time you’re under a deep, dark sky, don’t forget to look up…and wonder what else might be out there.

Make sure to follow us on Tumblr for your regular dose of space: http://nasa.tumblr.com.

#NASA #Space #stars #astronomy

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SLYTHERIN: “And it occurs to me that there is a proper balance between not asking enough of oneself and asking or expecting too much. It may be that I set my sights too high and so repeatedly end a day in depression. Not easy to find the balance, for if one does not have wild dreams of achievement, there is no spur even to get the dishes washed.” –May Sarton (Journal of a Solitude)

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RAVENCLAW: “I believe that dreams – day dreams, you know, with your eyes wide open and your brain machinery whizzing – are likely to lead to the betterment of the world.” –L. Frank Baum (Introduction to The Lost Princess of Oz)

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hey have i ever told anyone how much i love hogan’s heroes? i’m just so completely enamored with this show it’s not even funny anymore