What’s A Space Headache?

“I AM NOT BROKEN.” asexual

please message me, @hopeunconditional, if you would like a digital piece of similar style with a different pride flag.

aromantic - bisexual

You’re still a valid asexual even if you fit one or more of the ace stereotypes. You’re valid if you’re ace and aromantic. Ace and autistic. Ace and disabled. Ace and a survivor of assault. Ace and a virgin. Ace and afraid of commitment. And on and on. If you’re asexual, you’re a valid ace, no matter what comes after the “and”.

@my fellow ace

Here are some puns you can use:

-acesthetic -gonna ace this -this is pretty ace -I’m pretty ace -aced it -I ace everything, it’s who I am -if you’re playing cards then you can say “gonna ace this” and it’ll be a triple pun how hehe ace is that? (◕∀◕✿)

Me, an asexual astronaut: space ace

How to be asexual

Step one: Identify as asexual. That’s all you need.

Milky Way over Spencer Bay, Moosehead Lake, Maine

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you don’t hug asexuals you embrace them

The Milky Way, New Zealand

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Solar System: 5 Things To Know This Week

Our solar system is huge, so let us break it down for you. Here are 5 things to know this week:

1. Dancing with a Star

Our local star, better known as the sun, teems with activity. This month NASA has been tracking regions that burst with magnetic loops. The Solar Dynamics Observatory is one of several space-based assets that keep tabs on the sun daily, watching as charged particles trace the magnetic field, forming bright lines as they emit light in ultraviolet wavelengths.

2. An Idyll for Ida

On Nov. 24, the asteroid Ida makes its closest approach to Earth (at a very safe distance). Ida is the first asteroid found to have its own moon, and the second ever visited by a spacecraft. Its close encounter happened in 1993 as Galileo flew by en route to Jupiter.

3. Moonshine

On Nov. 23, the Cassini spacecraft will fly near Saturn’s icy moon Tethys. Several instruments aboard Cassini will collect data, including an eight-frame color image mosaic. Between Nov. 27 and Dec. 2, Cassini will have very limited communications with Earth, because Cassini will enter solar conjunction, when Cassini and Saturn are on the other side of the Sun from Earth.

4. The Moon Will Occult Aldebaran

That may sound ominous, but all it means is that Earth’s moon will pass in front of the giant red star Aldebaran on Nov. 26. Aldebaran is the bright “eye” of the constellation Taurus. The event will only be visible in some parts of North America. Details can be found HERE. 

5. One Wild Ride, One Year Later

What a year it’s been for the Rosetta mission since the Philae lander came to rest on the surface of Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko in November 2014. A steady flow of data from the orbiter, together with several days of information sent from the lander, is providing a detailed picture of this remnant from the creation of the solar system.

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If Earth had Saturn’s Rings

From an excellent post by Jason Davis

From Washington, D.C., the rings would only fill a portion of the sky, but appear striking nonetheless. Here, we see them at sunrise.

From Guatemala, only 14 degrees above the equator, the rings would begin to stretch across the horizon. Their reflected light would make the moon much brighter.

From Earth’s equator, Saturn’s rings would be viewed edge-on, appearing as a thin, bright line bisecting the sky.

At the March and September equinoxes, the Sun would be positioned directly over the rings, casting a dramatic shadow at the equator.

At midnight at the Tropic of Capricorn, which sits at 23 degrees south latitude, the Earth casts a shadow over the middle of the rings, while the outer portions remain lit.

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