“Why.. Why doesn’t anyone love me?” The young earthbender was a drunken mess. He went from resisting Mako at the noodle shop to clinging tightly to the only comfort he had.
Mako sighed and pulled his brother into a tight embrace, whispering against the tear-stained face, “I love you, Bo. I’m so sorry.”
(Brotherly Comfort, I love how much Mako cares for his little bro. I imagine a lot of girls go through Bolin to get to Mako, which musta made him a bit emotionally wrecked. Poor kid. This ain’t supposed to be slashy, btw. D:<)
you know what? i’m not like you, i’m not cut out—
you don’t have to be like me, but you are more than what you are and you don’t see it.
Oh this ship <3
(Source: thewintersoldier)
NASA’S Chandra Finds Superfluid in Neutron Star’s Core
This composite image shows a beautiful X-ray and optical view of Cassiopeia A (Cas A), a supernova remnant located in our Galaxy about 11,000 light years away. These are the remains of a massive star that exploded about 330 years ago, as measured in Earth’s time frame. X-rays from Chandra are shown in red, green and blue along with optical data from Hubble in gold.
At the center of the image is a neutron star, an ultra-dense star created by the supernova. Ten years of observations with Chandra have revealed a 4% decline in the temperature of this neutron star, an unexpectedly rapid cooling. Two new papers by independent research teams show that this cooling is likely caused by a neutron superfluid forming in its central regions, the first direct evidence for this bizarre state of matter in the core of a neutron star.
The inset shows an artist’s impression of the neutron star at the center of Cas A. The different colored layers in the cutout region show the crust (orange), the core (red), where densities are much higher, and the part of the core where the neutrons are thought to be in a superfluid state (inner red ball). The blue rays emanating from the center of the star represent the copious numbers of neutrinos — nearly massless, weakly interacting particles — that are created as the core temperature falls below a critical level and a neutron superfluid is formed, a process that began about 100 years ago as observed from Earth. These neutrinos escape from the star, taking energy with them and causing the star to cool much more rapidly.
This new research has allowed the teams to place the first observational constraints on a range of properties of superfluid material in neutron stars. The critical temperature was constrained to between one half a billion to just under a billion degrees Celsius. A wide region of the neutron star is expected to be forming a neutron superfluid as observed now, and to fully explain the rapid cooling, the protons in the neutron star must have formed a superfluid even earlier after the explosion. Because they are charged particles, the protons also form a superconductor.
Using a model that has been constrained by the Chandra observations, thefuture behavior of the neutron star has been predicted. The rapid cooling is expected to continue for a few decades and then it should slow down.
Vice President Joe Biden became the highest-ranking official in the Obama administration to signal support for same-sex marriage on Sunday during an interview with “Meet The Press.”
News in gif form.
it would be nice of i could get my creative self together enough to put them to good use :/ Maybe I will compile a list and cross them off as they are proven TOTALLY BASELESS lol