Have a beautiful Day of Aphrodite aka Venus' Day aka Frigg's Day aka Friday 🌹
You have heard of Princess Leia in the golden bikini. Now get ready for #VENUS in a golden bikini! Homegirl is putting on her golden sandals, aided by her son #Eros. She is using a statue of #Priapus with a gilded erection to lean on.
A day on Venus, taking about 243 Earth days to complete one rotation, is longer than a year on Venus, which orbits around the Sun once every 225 Earth days
All I could hear all night, was running water. It's a kilometer across the harbour, and a kilometer up the river, and the roar hasn't softened in 20 hours
The inner workings of Venus have remained a mystery, but scientists at NASA and the Sandia National Laboratory think they have a solution — hang seismometers from balloons. ScienceAlert has more: https://flip.it/1nXTLP #Space#Science#Venus#NASA
Leben auf der #Venus? 🤔 2020 sorgte ein #Phosphin-Fund für Spekulationen über Leben auf dem Planeten, doch Kritiker/innen meldeten Zweifel an. Das Forschungsteam der Cardiff-Universität blieb dran und lieferte neue Messdaten. Phosphin muss nicht zwangsläufig auf Leben hinweisen, abiotische Prozesse könnten ebenso verantwortlich sein. Klarheit könnte die #JUICE-Mission der #ESA bringen. 🪐 Es bleibt spannend! 🔍💫
Just for fun.... Yesterday I fired up one of my small 'scopes for the first time in ages. Not the best images but here are crescent Venus (shot during the day) and Saturn taken with the same camera and telescope combo. This means this is a comparison of the planet's actual apparent sizes as seen from Earth yesterday. #venus#saturn#astronomy#NewZealand
16 Aug 1600: b. Virginia Galilei daughter of Galileo Galilei #astronomer & Marina Gamba #otd in #Padua
She would become a Poor Clare Sr. Maria Celeste - & now has an impact crater on #Venus named for her (BowesMuseum/NASA)
Tomorrow will be the height of Venus retrograde. The Sun and Venus in Leo will conjunct in the same degree, merging their significations with one another. The creative expression of the self will take center stage. When thinking about this conjunction, it will be purely about the self and how we want to express ourselves to the world. What creative endeavors have you picked up (or more specifically, revisited) recently? How do you feel people see you when you express yourself? Is that in line with how you personally see yourself?
Venus is about relationships, and creative expression. Art and beauty come from Venus, whereas the Sun wants to be seen as its own individual self. Those two merging will be an explosion of creative realizations around how you attract people to you. Be unapologetically upfront, and be yourself! That is what this Venus retrograde is teaching us.
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The guy whose company built the duct tape and chewing gum submersible that imploded over the Titanic wants to build a habitat on Venus, where the surface pressure is 75-100 times higher than on Earth, the temperature is hot enough to melt lead, and the atmosphere is basically sulfuric acid...