#light years
The Ring Nebula (M57), is more complicated than it appears through a small telescope. The easily visible central ring is about one light-year across, but this remarkably deep exposure shows in detail the looping filaments of glowing gas extending much farther from the nebula’s central star. This image, taken by combining data from three different large telescopes, includes red light emitted by hydrogen as well as visible and infrared light. The Ring Nebula is an elongated planetary nebula, a type of nebula created when a Sun-like star evolves to throw off its outer atmosphere to become a white dwarf star. The Ring Nebula is about 2,500 light-years away from us here on Earth.
Image Credit: Hubble, Large Binocular Telescope, Subaru Telescope; Composition & Copyright: Robert Gendler
These jets shooting out from Centaurus A are over a million light years long! They’re made of streaming plasma and are expelled by the giant black hole in the center of this spiral galaxy. Exactly how the central black hole does this remains unknown. Once out of the galaxy, the jets create large radio bubbles that will likely glow for millions of years. X-ray light is depicted in the image in blue, while microwave light is colored orange.
Image Credit: ESO/WFI (visible); MPIfR/ESO/APEX/A. Weiss et al. (microwave); NASA/CXC/CfA/R. Kraft et al. (X-ray)
What’s happening at the center of the star forming Trifid Nebula? Three prominent dust lanes that give the Trifid its name all come together and dark dust filaments are visible threaded throughout the nebula. The single massive star visible near the center gives the Trifid a lot of its glow. Cataloged as M20, its only about 300,000 years old, making it among the youngest emission nebulas known, and lies about 9,000 light years away toward the constellation of Sagittarius. The region pictured here spans about 10 light years.
Image Credit: Subaru Telescope (NAOJ), Hubble Space Telescope, Martin Pugh; Processing: Robert Gendler
photo by Wayne Pinkston|MY TUMBLR BLOG|
Rainborealis in Kitdalen, Norway. It kinda looks like the entire town is about to be teleported to galaxy EGS-zs8-1 13 billion light years away.
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Speed of light looking kinda slow these days… like girl just hurry up
These days everyone is moving away, folding flaps of the past
into boxes. If the house goes, I think, so, too, does the feeling.
Each time it is the same, a few martinis in the city and I dream
of clementines huddled inside the net. Black-eyed Susans
and all those trails unwalked. In the bathroom I swallow
or snort that loaded syllable home. My tired teeth in the mirror.My brother lives in another country. My parents left
the country in which they were born. Somehow I am tethered
to this place, the fading grass, all the left turns I built up
the courage to make. No—most days I wake and ache
to leave this continent, this time, this body. I stay from fear.
Those were the lightest years. If I go, so, too, does the feeling.
Natasha Rao, Latitude(Copper Canyon Press, 2021)
In 1988, French animation director René Laloux released his third and final feature-length animated film, Gandahar — a high-concept science-fiction film based upon a 1969 French novel. The same year, Harvey Weinstein released an edited version of the film in the United States re-titled Light Years. The only version of the original dubbed into English, it featured a new script written by famed author Isaac Asimov and replaced most of the original French music soundtrack. Weinstein edited out most of the sexuality and nudity, resulting in a disjointed version of the original film. In the years since, Light Years has been has been ridiculed forgotten while the original, unedited Gandahar has been restored and re-released with English subtitles.
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Gandahar(1988)
By René Laloux
Produced in France and North Korea
Approximate Run Time: 83 minutes
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![Gandahar (1988): “René Laloux, director of Fantastic Planet [La Planète sauvage], created Gandahar,](https://64.media.tumblr.com/deee785944a72bebba9877162d060692/tumblr_nvyp6506aH1rcufl3o1_1280.jpg "Gandahar (1988): “René Laloux, director of Fantastic Planet [La Planète sauvage], created Gandahar,")
Gandahar (1988): “René Laloux, director of Fantastic Planet[La Planète sauvage], createdGandahar, his final animated feature film, in 1988. Based on an original story by Jean-Pierre Andrevon, and a huge hit in France at the time of its release, it combines Laloux’s famous imagination with that of animation designer Philippe Caza. Gandahar is a fascinating, adult animation which examines genetic mutation, the importance of organic farming, and urges a respect for nature that resonates today more than ever.
Life in the idyllic paradise of Gandahar seems peaceful and in joyous order, until the Mirror Birds report that inhabitants of whole villages have been turned to stone. A council of women chooses Sylvain Lanvère to uncover Gandahar’s mysterious metallic attackers. In doing so, he finds an underground race of deformed Gandaharians and an oversized motherbrain, both the result of botched genetic experiments.
The Weinstein Company released the film in English-speaking countries as the alternatively titled Light Years. Significant changes to the original film were presided over by Harvey Weinstein, who then credited himself as “Director”, instead of René Laloux. The English title is a translation, not of the original title, but of the original tag line “Les Années lumière” (The Light Years) as seen on the French poster. Changes included editing out sexual imagery and using almost an entirely new soundtrack. Light Years was considered a hack-job of the original film and has fallen into obscurity. The original, unedited film has since been restored and re-released with English subtitles.
Based on Les Hommes-machines contre Gandahar [The Machine-Men vs. Gandahar], which was published in 1969 by Jean-Pierre Andrevon.”
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Title: Gandahar
Release Year: 1988
Production Country: France
Film Director: René Laloux
Animation Studio: SEK Studio
Medium: hand-drawn animation (classical)
Genre: sci-fi, fantasy
Length: 83 minutes
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I feel I’ve been listening and sharing this song way to many times lately, and not for good reasons.
We were but stones, your light made us stars.
