@Regrann from @history - On January 7, 1927, the Harlem Globetrotters basketball team travels 48 miles west from Chicago to play their first game in Hinckley, Illinois. (đˇ Getty Images) - #regrann
Well wait a blessed minute...How sway???
Are you ready to see unprecedented, detailed views of the universe from the James Webb Space Telescope, the largest and most powerful space observatory ever made? Scroll down to see the first full-color images and data from Webb. Unfold the universe with us. â¨
This landscape of âmountainsâ and âvalleysâ speckled with glittering stars, called the Cosmic Cliffs, is the edge of the star-birthing Carina Nebula. Usually, the early phases of star formation are difficult to capture, but Webb can peer through cosmic dustâthanks to its extreme sensitivity, spatial resolution, and imaging capability. Protostellar jets clearly shoot out from some of these young stars in this new image.
The Southern Ring Nebula is a planetary nebula: itâs an expanding cloud of gas and dust surrounding a dying star. In this new image, the nebulaâs second, dimmer star is brought into full view, as well as the gas and dust itâs throwing out around it. (The brighter star is in its own stage of stellar evolution and will probably eject its own planetary nebula in the future.) These kinds of details will help us better understand how stars evolve and transform their environments. Finally, you might notice points of light in the background. Those arenât starsâtheyâre distant galaxies.
Stephanâs Quintet, a visual grouping of five galaxies near each other, was discovered in 1877 and is best known for being prominently featured in the holiday classic, âItâs a Wonderful Life.â This new image brings the galaxy group from the silver screen to your screen in an enormous mosaic that is Webbâs largest image to date. The mosaic covers about one-fifth of the Moonâs diameter; it contains over 150 million pixels and is constructed from almost 1,000 separate image files. Never-before-seen details are on display: sparkling clusters of millions of young stars, fresh star births, sweeping tails of gas, dust and stars, and huge shock waves paint a dramatic picture of galactic interactions.
WASP-96 b is a giant, mostly gas planet outside our solar system, discovered in 2014. Webbâs Near-Infrared Imager and Slitless Spectrograph (NIRISS) measured light from the WASP-96 system as the planet moved across the star. The light curve confirmed previous observations, but the transmission spectrum revealed new properties of the planet: an unambiguous signature of water, indications of haze, and evidence of clouds in the atmosphere. This discovery marks a giant leap forward in the quest to find potentially habitable planets beyond Earth.
This image of galaxy cluster SMACS 0723, known as Webbâs First Deep Field, looks 4.6 billion years into the past. Looking at infrared wavelengths beyond Hubbleâs deepest fields, Webbâs sharp near-infrared view reveals thousands of galaxiesâincluding the faintest objects ever observed in the infraredâin the most detailed view of the early universe to date. We can now see tiny, faint structures weâve never seen before, like star clusters and diffuse features and soon, weâll begin to learn more about the galaxiesâ masses, ages, histories, and compositions.
These images and data are just the beginning of what the observatory will find. It will study every phase in the history of our Universe, ranging from the first luminous glows after the Big Bang, to the formation of solar systems capable of supporting life on planets like Earth, to the evolution of our own Solar System.
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Credits: NASA, ESA, CSA, and STScI
I was told this as a kid...And it has guide my life ever since " the only true form of discipline is self discipline"
Be perpared they are doing everything they can to keep you ignorant and unware...
Did you ever wonder why weâre not supposed to drink sea water? A kidney canât make urine from a concentration of salts of more than 2%. Seawater is made of 3% salt, so if we drink it, the kidneys have to use existing water from our body to dilute and absorb the extra salt, which in turn makes us even thirstier. This keeps happening until we die of dehydration.
Yea...Some times I fall off...But I will always remember my purpose... Let me break it down for you! First off as a believer you must have Christ at the center of all you do..Then your roots must go deep into the Word of God...I know a lot of Christian who try to establish a horizontal ministry (reaching others) having never themselves plumbing the depths of God's true treasure...My IG tl is full of these..đ then you must establish a vertical relationship with God through continual prayer...from there then you reach out vertically to others through fellowship and witnessing... There is a purpose and an order to this Christian life thing...Please stop being aimless wonders and chose to become true Disciples of Christ!! đđđ
He has learned to bend the energy within himself
@Regrann from @history - On #ThisDayinHistory 1967, Thurgood Marshall becomes the first African American to be confirmed as a Supreme Court justice. He would remain on the Supreme Court for 24 years before retiring for health reasons, leaving a legacy of upholding the rights of the individual as guaranteed by the U.S. Constitution. After graduating from Lincoln University in 1930, Marshall sought admission to the University of Maryland School of Law, but was turned away because of the schoolâs segregation policy, which effectively forbade blacks from studying with whites. Instead, Marshall attended Howard University Law School, from which he graduated magna cum laude in 1933. (Marshall later successfully sued Maryland School of Law for their unfair admissions policy.) As a lawyer, Marshall distinguished himself as one of the countryâs leading advocates for individual rights, winning 29 of the 32 cases he argued in front of the Supreme Court, all of which challenged in some way the âseparate but equalâ doctrine that had been established by the 1896 landmark case Plessy v. Ferguson. The high-water mark of Marshallâs career as a litigator came in 1954 with his victory in Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka. In that case, Marshall argued that the âseparate but equalâ principle was unconstitutional, and designed to keep blacks âas near [slavery] as possible.â In 1961, Marshall was appointed by then-President John F. Kennedy to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, a position he held until 1965, when Kennedyâs successor, Lyndon B. Johnson, named him solicitor general. Following the retirement of Justice Tom Clark in 1967, President Johnson appointed Marshall to the Supreme Court, a decision confirmed by the Senate with a 69-11 vote. #ThurgoodMarshall #SCOTUS #history #legalhistory #ushistory
I don't have all the answers because I didn't make the test!
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