Merry Celebrations

Jabberwockyillustration by Corrine A. Reed

The merriest of all holidays to you lords of men and monsters. May you find truth among lies, peace among foes, and threads of magic among that which is most mundane.

Sorry

Sorry everyone that I haven’t been updating. I am taking the GRE on Friday and driving back to Chicago on Saturday to visit family for the holidays. All my graduate school applications are due in at the end of the year, so those are also consuming a great deal of my time.

But worry not, soon all will be as it should.

Black Hole vs. Star

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Just some fun stuff I happened upon while researching for Daughters of Oyr. What happens when a star gets too close to a black hole? Violent awesomeness, that’s what.

The above is the real sha-bang compliments of NASA’s GALEX spacecraft. I found it in this New Scientist article.

The below is a helpful CG that was explained simply enough to actually make sense to a lamen like me.