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Vita Sackville-West, from a letter to Harold Nicolson dated 31 January 1956
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Fyodor Dostoevsky, Poor People
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The Veil Nebula
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✯ Merry Christmas!! ✯
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my shop
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Bakery Style Chocolate Chip Cookies
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~~Peace on Earth~~
© gif by riverwindphotography, December 2022
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Grasp
Inspired by the Pillars of Creation star cluster
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Machholz and The Seven Sisters
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Palomar 6: Globular Star Cluster : Where did this big ball of stars come from? Palomar 6 is one of about 200 globular clusters of stars that survive in our Milky Way Galaxy. These spherical star-balls are older than our Sun as well as older than most stars that orbit in our galaxy’s disk. Palomar 6 itself is estimated to be about 12.5 billion years old, so old that it is close to – and so constrains – the age of the entire universe. Containing about 500,000 stars, Palomar 6 lies about 25,000 light years away, but not very far from our galaxy’s center. At that distance, this sharp image from the Hubble Space Telescope spans about 15 light-years. After much study including images from Hubble, a leading origin hypothesis is that Palomar 6 was created – and survives today – in the central bulge of stars that surround the Milky Way’s center, not in the distant galactic halo where most other globular clusters are now found. via NASA
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as you should
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do you ever have mornings when you wake up, and you just have... this peculiar feeling. this longing. this state of unrest. you leave your house and the streets are deserted, and you almost feel like you're the only person left. you feel like the world, or your life, is on the cusp of something. something there, yet also not there. something nameless, but on the tip of your tongue. the feeling eventually disappears, but something still lingers, looking for another moment in time to creep back and make you feel like there's more to you and this tiny life
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