“The unhappy person is never present to themselves because they always live in the past or the future.”

#Puzzled

An aerial view of the 'Unfinished Obelisk' in the 3500-year-old granite quarry in Aswan, Egypt. The unfinished obelisk is nearly one-third larger than any ancient Egyptian obelisk ever erected. This obelisk, which is 25m long today, if it had been finished by the ancient

“The best way to keep a prisoner from escaping is to make sure he never knows he's in prison.” — Fyodor Dostoevsky

#formulae and #learningability

“The human foot is a masterpiece of engineering and a work of art.” - Leonardo da Vinci

The young star LL Ori gives off a strong solar wind – a stream of charged particles moving rapidly outward. But when that wind collides with gas evaporating from the Orion Nebula, it creates the crescent-shaped bow shock in this #HubbleClassic view: go.nasa.gov/48JEvu9

Brown dwarf W1935 posed a mystery. Webb found that methane in this object’s atmosphere was emitting infrared light, despite no obvious energy source. Using clues from our solar system, scientists found a possible explanation in aurorae: go.nasa.gov/3HddFPe #AAS243

Take a look through some classic #CosmicCollisions! Over the last three decades (and counting!), Hubble has provided valuable snapshots of galaxy mergers. These interactions occur when the gravity between galaxies draws them together: go.nasa.gov/4bdjABF

Geometry puzzle 📐

“The deepest sin against the human mind is to believe things without evidence.” — Aldous Huxley

A Masonic Initiation Well - Quinta da Regaleira, celebrates Portugal's unique historical connection to the mysterious Knights Templar : This 88ft deep well is located on the land of Quinta da Regaleira, near manicured gardens and hilltop villas of Sintra, Portugal, lies the

Jupiter seen from the James Webb Space Telescope

Happy #ValentinesDay from Hubble! 💘 To show our love, here's a new image of the globular cluster NGC 2298. These stars are attracted to each other... gravitationally, that is. Read more: go.nasa.gov/3uydKKD

“We are a society of notoriously unhappy people: lonely, anxious, depressed, destructive, dependent — people who are glad when we have killed the time we are trying so hard to save.” —Erich Fromm