the tarantula nebula: Archive

the tarantula nebula

January 2011

cbmccolm: “So avoid using the word ‘very’ because it’s lazy. A man is not very tired, he is exhausted. Don’t use very sad, use morose. Language was invented for one reason, boys - to woo women - and, in that endeavor, laziness will not do. It also won’t do in your essays. “ — John Keating, Dead Poet’s Society

A hidden galaxy may be just beyond the Milky Way,...

The invisibility of “Galaxy X”—as the purported body has been dubbed—may be due less to its apparent status as a dwarf galaxy than to its murky location and its overwhelming amount of dark matter..