Behold the most amazingly fabulous astronomy picture I've seen in an unspecified period of time!
N49 in the Large Magellanic Cloud.
I really don't have much to say about it, except that gosh, it's amazingly fantastically lovely...The filaments, the colours...I have a real weakness for objects like that, knots of colourful string. Maybe I'm part cat.
While you're there, you can see the nebula giving us the finger, which I encountered originally on Memepool. Have I mentioned how much I love space?
While I'm at it, here's a commencement speech by Tony Kushner, author of Angels in America, which is full of Gnosticism.
And here is a collection of palindromes, some of them in Finnish:
ajoreittieroja
The Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith used to be the Inquisition.
And, via Mr Happy, here is a quiz: Which Doctor Who Season Are You? I am, unsurprisingly, Season 26.
I was under the weather today, so that's all you're getting.
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