Twisting off into the sun, celestial bound.

darksilenceinsuburbia:

Marcel Duchamp.

heythereuniverse:

Hubble Telescope Reveals True 3D Shape of Ring Nebula | Space.com

The iconic Ring Nebula may seem like just a stunning circle of wispy interstellar gas, but new images from the Hubble Space Telescope reveal it to be more like a deep-space jelly doughnut, scientists say.

The new Hubble telescope images have allowed astronomers to take their most detailed look at the Ring Nebula than ever before, revealing an unprecedented view of the nebula’s three-dimensional structure.

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dver:

Nicholas Epley, at the University of Chicago, conducted a study questioning whether people project their own opinions onto their god. There were seven parts of the study, but I find the last to be the most eye-opening. If you want to take a look, the full paper can be read here
The above images are “comparisons of neural activation when reasoning about self, God, and the “average American,” (representative of all participants) and highlighted sections indicate difference in brain function.
The first picture shows the contrast between the individual’s opinion on euthanasia and the individual’s perception of society’s beliefs on euthanasia. Then, the second image demonstrates a contrast between the individual’s reasoning of society’s opinion and God’s opinion. Finally, we can see that the last image has no contrast - when a person thinks of his/her own opinion, they use the same parts of their brain as when they think of God’s opinion. There is an “increased similarity in the underlying mechanism used to generate one’s own beliefs and God’s beliefs. Inferences about God’s beliefs appear to egocentrically biased, these data suggest, because the process used to generate inferences about God’s beliefs is relatively similar to the process used to generate one’s own beliefs.” So, when someone thinks of God’s beliefs, their brain acts the exactly the same as when they think of their own moral beliefs.
Interesting

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