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Up Close And Personal With Hummingbirds by Tracy Johnson

Bird whisperer Tracy Johnson nests out in her backyard in Livermore, California engaging with her feathered flock of friends, hummingbirds. Her encounters with the tiny and vibrant birds which are elusive to the common eye have become her regular visitors, where she has named many of them. Her passion has led  to dedicate a significant portion of each day using handheld hummingbird feeders to lure the little creatures in for a vivid close-up.

Glow in the Dark Space Paintings by LanchensDesigns on Etsy

 Frollo and Quasimodo

Mother Gothel and Rapunzel

Frollo and Mother Gothel convince Quasimodo and Rapunzel that their lives are dependent on them. The two villains claim the outside world is a terrible place even though they know this is not true. They also constantly emotionally abuse their victims by implying their worthlessness and destroying their self-esteems. Quasimodo and Rapunzel sympathize with their captors and even believe their captors are protecting them and treating them with kindness. However, both captors are merely using and manipulating their victims for their own selfish purposes.

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The Beast and Belle

 Belle does not sympathize with the Beast when she is treated poorly. She becomes angry and leaves the castle, only returning by her own wish so that the Beast (who saves her) does not freeze to death. She does not respond nicely towards the Beast until he treats her with respect. In this situation, Belle has control and is not manipulated into feeling for the Beast, nor does the Beast treat her disrespectfully after the first night. While the Beast does have an underlying motive as to keeping Belle in his castle, he abandons this idea and sets her free to make her happy. If anything, this story is a case of Lima Syndrome where the captor starts to sympathize with the victim.

The Tarantula Nebula : The Tarantula Nebula is more than a thousand light-years in diameter, a giant star forming region within nearby satellite galaxy the Large Magellanic Cloud, about 180 thousand light-years away. The largest, most violent star forming region known in the whole Local Group of galaxies, the cosmic arachnid sprawls across this spectacular composite view constructed with space- and ground-based image data. Within the Tarantula , intense radiation, stellar winds and supernova shocks from the central young cluster of massive stars, cataloged as R136, energize the nebular glow and shape the spidery filaments. Around the Tarantula are other star forming regions with young star clusters, filaments, and blown-out bubble-shaped clouds In fact, the frame includes the site of the closest supernova in modern times, SN 1987A, at the lower right. The rich field of view spans about 1 degree or 2 full moons, in the southern constellation Dorado. But were the Tarantula Nebula closer, say 1,500 light-years distant like the local star forming Orion Nebula, it would take up half the sky. via NASA

13 Incredibly Detailed Floor Plans Of The Most Famous TV Show Homes

Throughout the passing decades, some TV series have made a permanent place in our hearts and their endearing set of characters. These shows, like the highly popular FRIENDS, Big Bang Theory to Dexter leave a with a connection to their story. The familiar sets become a comforting sanctuary for us to relax and enjoy their everyday adventures on television.

Spanish artist Iñaki Aliste Lizarralde has created a series of floor plans of some of the most popular tv shows such as FRIENDS and Seinfeld as well as many others. The beautifully illustrated renditions are handy to have around in case you decided to recreate your own version of these rooms and the top down view that can be accessed by the blueprint are a rare glimpse of the space occupied by some of our favorite small screen characters. You can find the delightful illustration in their Etsy shop.

Parasomnia - Milky Way and Hay Bales

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Double-Wide Image of Pickering’s Triangle

A new wide-field image of Pickering’s Triangle taken with the National Science Foundation’s Mayall 4-meter telescope at Kitt Peak National Observatory is being released today in Austin, Texas, at the 211th meeting of the American Astronomical Society.

Pickering’s Triangle is part of the Cygnus Loop supernova remnant, which includes the famous Veil Nebula. It is located about 1,500 light-years from Earth, in the constellation Cygnus, the Swan. Astronomers estimate that the supernova explosion that produced the nebula occurred between 5,000 to 10,000 years ago; the entire shell stretches more than six full Moons in width across the sky.

This new image was obtained in September 2007 by Travis Rector and Heidi Schweiker by combining two full pointings of the 64-megapixel NOAO Mosaic-1 imager mounted on the National Science Foundation’s historic Mayall 4-meter telescope.

credit line: T.A. Rector/University of Alaska Anchorage, H. Schweiker/WIYN and NOAO/AURA/NSF