Umha Ghrian

The worst cow in the fold lows the loudest.

T.D. Macdonald

There is value in the silent; the voices less often heard, but whose words hold strong conviction and cause much change. Those with the loudest voices cause the most disturbance, and dissuade finding common ground in the heat of passion.

We are too quick to verbal combat, and too focused on drowning each other’s voices to the point that nothing is left but useless noise. But in quietude, there is proper discourse.

The jellyfish galaxy JO206 lies over 700 million light-years from Earth in the constellation Aquarius. Jellyfish galaxies are so-called because of their resemblance to their aquatic namesakes. The tendrils of jellyfish galaxies are formed by the interaction between galaxies and the intra-cluster medium, a tenuous superheated plasma that pervades galaxy clusters. As galaxies move through galaxy clusters, they ram into the intracluster medium, which strips gas from the galaxies and draws it into the long tendrils of star formation 🪼