I look at a star and it’s just a big ball of burning gas and I know how it began and I know how it ends and I was probably there both times. After a while, everything is just stuff! That’s the problem. You make all of space and time your backyard and what do you have? A backyard.
Hubble has spotted an ancient galaxy that shouldn’t exist
This galaxy is so large, so fully-formed, astronomers say it shouldn’t exist at all. It’s called a “grand-design” spiral galaxy, and unlike most galaxies of its kind, this one is old. Like, really, really old. According to a new study conducted by researchers using NASA’s Hubble Telescope, it dates back roughly 10.7-billion years — and that makes it the most ancient spiral galaxy we’ve ever discovered.“The vast majority of old galaxies look like train wrecks,” said UCLA astrophysicist Alice Shapley in a press release. “Our first thought was, why is this one so different, and so beautiful?”
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I’m gonna wait for The Doctor, just like he’d wait for me.
iwillincendiotheheartoutofyou:
YOU GUYS
Remember how Ten’s last words were “I don’t want to go,” while his catchphrase was “Allons-y,” French for “Let’s go!
YOU GUYS
geronimo
ELEVEN’S GONNA JUMP TO HIS DEATH
IF MOFFAT MAKES ANOTHER CHARACTER JUMP TO THEIR DEATH I WILL RIP THE WORLD APART DO YOU HEAR ME
The Fall of the Eleventh
Favorite Doctor Who Episodes | The Stolen Earth / Journey’s End
You know, you act like such a lonely man. But look at you. You’ve got the biggest family on Earth.
