https://kindnessthroughknowledge.com/blog/2026-05-19T11:45:44+00:00weekly0.6https://kindnessthroughknowledge.com/2019/11/23/height-jump-lightbulb-moment/https://kindnessthroughknowledge.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/f1big-1.giff1bighttp://large.stanford.edu/courses/2018/ph240/williams-h2/images/f1big.gif2026-05-19T11:45:43+00:00monthlyhttps://kindnessthroughknowledge.com/2022/04/24/snake-river/2022-04-02T08:23:34+00:00monthlyhttps://kindnessthroughknowledge.com/2021/02/13/antarctica-that-isnt-antarctica/https://kindnessthroughknowledge.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/antarcticathatisntantarctica_withouttext.jpgANTARCTICATHATISNTANTARCTICA_withouttext2022-03-31T08:33:20+00:00monthlyhttps://kindnessthroughknowledge.com/2021/02/20/loops-and-stuff/https://kindnessthroughknowledge.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/loops-and-stuff_withouttext.jpgA supernova remnant and pulsar located 6000 light years from Earth in the constellation of Taurus.In the Crab Nebula, a rapidly rotating neutron star, or pulsar (white dot near the center), powers the dramatic activity seen by Chandra. The inner X-ray ring is thought to be a shock wave that marks the boundary between the surrounding nebula and the flow of matter and antimatter particles from the pulsar. Energetic particles move outward to brighten the outer ring and produce an extended X-ray glow. The jets perpendicular to the ring are due to matter and antimatter particles spewing out from the poles of the pulsar. The fingers, loops and bays visible on the outer boundary of the nebula are likely caused by confinement of the high-energy particles by magnetic forces.2022-03-30T05:37:23+00:00monthlyhttps://kindnessthroughknowledge.com/2021/03/06/dust-devil-dance/2022-03-27T08:55:10+00:00monthlyhttps://kindnessthroughknowledge.com/2022/04/17/mt-saint-michel/2022-03-27T07:46:00+00:00monthlyhttps://kindnessthroughknowledge.com/2021/03/13/dark-and-light/https://kindnessthroughknowledge.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/darkandlight_withouttext.pngDARKANDLIGHT_withouttext2022-03-26T13:21:17+00:00monthlyhttps://kindnessthroughknowledge.com/2021/03/20/nazgul-nebula/https://kindnessthroughknowledge.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/nazgul-nebula_withouttext.jpgNAZGUL 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AtacamaClose to ESO's ALMA Observatory, a tour bus creates a cloud of dust as it makes its way across the Chilean desert. This bus carries staff heading to the ALMA Operations Support Facility for the start of an 8-day shift. In the background we see two volcanoes, their snow-covered peaks obscured by clouds. Located on the border between Bolivia and Chile, these two inactive volcanoes, despite being just a short distance from each other, were created in different geological epochs — Licancabur, the volcano on the left, is much younger than its smaller neighbour Juriques. Licancabur is famous for its near-symmetrical shape, and for being home to one of the highest lakes in the world. At an altitude of 5916 metres, the lake in Licancabur’s caldera is host to a variety of rare flora and fauna, and has been studied to see how life is coping in this extreme environment. It is said that the Licancabur region is one of the best analogues for the Martian environment, and that by studying the life present here, we may better understand how life could flourish on other planets. This image was taken by ESO's Armin Silber.2022-01-19T08:47:26+00:00monthlyhttps://kindnessthroughknowledge.com/2021/10/27/greek-letter/https://kindnessthroughknowledge.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/greekletter_withouttext.jpgGREEKLETTER_withouttextThe Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) and many other telescopes on the ground and in space have been used to obtain the best view yet of a collision that took place between two galaxies when the Universe was only half its current age. The astronomers enlisted the help of a galaxy-sized magnifying glass to reveal otherwise invisible detail. These new studies of the galaxy H-ATLAS J142935.3-002836 have shown that this complex and distant object looks surprisingly like the well-known local galaxy collision, the Antennae Galaxies. In this picture you can see the foreground galaxy that is doing the lensing, which resembles how our home galaxy, the Milky Way, would appear if seen edge-on. But around this galaxy there is an almost complete ring — the smeared out image of a star-forming galaxy merger far beyond. This picture combines the views from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope and the Keck-II telescope on Hawaii (using adaptive 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TIFF fileIDL TIFF file2021-04-24T09:05:33+00:00monthlyhttps://kindnessthroughknowledge.com/2020/10/08/red-spot/https://kindnessthroughknowledge.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/redspot_withouttext.jpgREDSPOT_withouttext2021-04-23T07:58:01+00:00monthlyhttps://kindnessthroughknowledge.com/2020/10/15/pareidolia/2021-04-22T09:26:43+00:00monthlyhttps://kindnessthroughknowledge.com/2020/10/24/stellar-latte/https://kindnessthroughknowledge.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/stellarlatte_withouttext.jpgOne Large Stellar Latte To GoFar away in the Ursa Major constellation is a swirling galaxy that would not look out of place on a coffee made by a starry-eyed barista. NGC 3895 is a barred spiral galaxy that was first spotted by William Herschel in 1790 and was later observed by the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope. Hubble's orbit high above the Earth's distorting atmosphere allows astronomers to make the very high resolution observations that are essential to opening new windows on planets, stars and galaxies — such as this beautiful view of NGC 3895. The telescope is positioned approximately 570 km above the ground, where it whirls around Earth at 28 000 kilometres per hour and takes 96 minutes to complete one orbit. 2021-04-22T09:21:04+00:00monthlyhttps://kindnessthroughknowledge.com/2020/11/28/remember-the-rose/https://kindnessthroughknowledge.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/remembertherose_withoutteaxt.pngREMEMBERTHEROSE_withoutteaxt2021-04-22T05:31:17+00:00monthlyhttps://kindnessthroughknowledge.com/2020/10/31/sentinel/2021-04-21T12:37:51+00:00monthlyhttps://kindnessthroughknowledge.com/2020/11/14/gandalf-in-the-sky/https://kindnessthroughknowledge.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/margarine-buzz_withouttext.jpgMARGARINE BUZZ_withouttext2021-04-21T12:37:23+00:00monthlyhttps://kindnessthroughknowledge.com/2020/11/21/spring-break-anyone/https://kindnessthroughknowledge.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/argyreequinox_withouttext.pngARGYREEQUINOX_withouttext2021-04-21T12:37:00+00:00monthlyhttps://kindnessthroughknowledge.com/2020/12/19/negative-path/2021-04-21T12:34:08+00:00monthlyhttps://kindnessthroughknowledge.com/2021/01/30/a-winter-image/https://kindnessthroughknowledge.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/thewinterimage_withouttext.jpgTHEWINTERIMAGE_withouttext2021-04-21T12:33:12+00:00monthlyhttps://kindnessthroughknowledge.com/2021/01/16/thats-some-desert-somewhere-right/https://kindnessthroughknowledge.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/lookinglikeearth_withouttext.jpgLOOKINGLIKEEARTH_withouttext2021-04-19T06:32:41+00:00monthlyhttps://kindnessthroughknowledge.com/2020/12/12/keplers-supernova/https://kindnessthroughknowledge.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/negative-path_withouttext.jpgA rosette for the VLTThis colourful image shows a part of the Rosette Nebula in the constellation of Monoceros (The Unicorn). It is an emission nebula, composed of clouds of gas that are made to glow by the radiation emanating from stars within. The Rosette Nebula is a fairly typical example of an emission nebula — but typical does not mean boring! Nebulae are some of the most beautiful celestial objects out there, and they frequently show up spectacularly in images taken by astronomical telescopes, as seen here. In nebulae such as this, gas and dust are combining to produce a new generation of stars. Initially these newly-formed stars are shrouded in the dusty clouds that gave them birth, and cannot be seen in visible light. But after a while they blow away the denser material and their powerful radiation pours out to ionise the surrounding gas, causing it to glow brightly. These elements are all present in this image — the mixture of glowing gas and dark dust has been sculpted into complex patterns on the sky by the stellar radiation, like smoke around a fire. This particular image was obtained with the FORS 2 instrument on ESO’s Very Large Telescope, sited in the harsh environment of Chile’s Atacama Desert. FORS 2 is an extremely versatile instrument that can produce very high-quality images (like this one!). It is also a spectrograph that can split the light it collects into a rainbow of colours, giving astronomers information about the chemical composition of objects across the Universe. This image was created as part of the ESO Cosmic Gems programme, an outreach initiative to produce images of interesting, intriguing or visually attractive objects using ESO telescopes, for the purposes of education and public outreach. The programme makes use of telescope time that cannot be used for science observations. 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