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As a child, photographer Ellie Davies grew up loving the forest in southern England, but lost that connection to nature in adulthood.

In Stars, her latest series of mesmerizing images, Ellie layers photos of that treasured forest with images taken by the Hubble Space Telescope.

Photographer Meditates on a Childhood Spent in the Forest

1) Gemini’s may appear outgoing and bubbly, but they’re actually very shy people, and can get nervous quite easily.

2) A Gemini will go above and beyond investigating when it comes to receiving the information they truly want.

3) When a Gemini tells you they love you, believe it. Love isn’t something easily and commonly passed around when it comes to Gemini’s.

4) If a Gemini appears quiet to you, don’t believe they’re quiet! Just saying.

5) You cannot tell a Gemini what not to do without them doing it. They hate following rules sometimes.

6) Gemini’s tend to very independent. We’ll only depend on those who’s worth depending on, and that’s rare to find.

7) You cannot lie to a Gemini. We may accept and entertain your lies, but that does not mean we believe you; we’re going to just not tell you.

Intergalactic ‘wind’ is stripping galaxies of star-forming gas

Astronomers from the University of Toronto and the University of Arizona have provided the first direct evidence that an intergalactic “wind” is stripping galaxies of star-forming gas as they fall into clusters of galaxies. The observations help explain why galaxies found in clusters are known to have relatively little gas and less star formation when compared to non-cluster or “field” galaxies.

Astronomers have theorized that as a field galaxy falls into a cluster of galaxies, it encounters the cloud of hot gas at the centre of the cluster. As the galaxy moves through this intra-cluster medium at thousands of kilometres per second, the cloud acts like a wind, blowing away the gas within the galaxy without disturbing its stars. The process is known as ram-pressure stripping.

Previously, astronomers had seen the very tenuous atomic hydrogen gas surrounding a galaxy get stripped. But it was believed that the denser molecular hydrogen clouds where stars form would be more resistant to the wind. “However, we found that the molecular hydrogen gas is also blown from the in-falling galaxy,” says Suresh Sivanandam of the Dunlap Institute at the University of Toronto, “much like smoke blown from a candle being carried into a room.”