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"Atoms synthesized in the interiors of stars are commonly returned to the interstellar gas… The atoms returned are, naturally, those most readily made in the thermonuclear reactions in stellar interiors:…. All the elements of the Earth except hydrogen and some helium have been cooked by a kind of stellar alchemy billions of years ago in stars, some of which are today inconspicuous white dwarfs on the other side of the Milky Way Galaxy. The nitrogen in our DNA, the calcium in our teeth, the iron in our blood, the carbon in our apple pies were made in the interiors of collapsing stars. We are made of starstuff."

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  1. unknownskywalker: Hurricane Alex in the Gulf of Mexico Hurricane Alex spanned the Gulf of Mexico, from the Yucatán Peninsula to the Louisiana coast, on June 29, 2010. The Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) on NASA’s Aqua satellite captured this natural-color image the same day. Thick, opaque clouds spiral outward from the center of the storm, and cloud cover stretches the entire north-south length of the Gulf. Clouds skirt New Orleans and the Mississippi Delta. According to the U.S. National Hurricane Center (NHC)’s 10:00 a.m. CDT advisory on June 30, Hurricane Alex was not forecast to travel in the direction of the Mississippi Delta or the oil slick. Instead, the storm was headed toward the northwest at roughly 11 km per hour, in the direction of northern Mexico. Alex was forecast to strengthen later that day, according to the NHC, and to bring substantial rainfall — 15 to 30 cm — over northeastern Mexico, and up to 50 cm in isolated spots. A Category 1 hurricane, Alex had maximum sustained winds of 130 km per hour. High-Res: 5600 × 7200 px (5 MB, JPG) | Source: NASA Earth Observatory This is killing my week. It hasn’t stopped raining and my plants are drowning. Texas this far inland shouldn’t be so soggy.

    unknownskywalker:

    Hurricane Alex in the Gulf of Mexico

    Hurricane Alex spanned the Gulf of Mexico, from the Yucatán Peninsula to the Louisiana coast, on June 29, 2010. The Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) on NASA’s Aqua satellite captured this natural-color image the same day. Thick, opaque clouds spiral outward from the center of the storm, and cloud cover stretches the entire north-south length of the Gulf. Clouds skirt New Orleans and the Mississippi Delta.

    According to the U.S. National Hurricane Center (NHC)’s 10:00 a.m. CDT advisory on June 30, Hurricane Alex was not forecast to travel in the direction of the Mississippi Delta or the oil slick. Instead, the storm was headed toward the northwest at roughly 11 km per hour, in the direction of northern Mexico.

    Alex was forecast to strengthen later that day, according to the NHC, and to bring substantial rainfall — 15 to 30 cm — over northeastern Mexico, and up to 50 cm in isolated spots. A Category 1 hurricane, Alex had maximum sustained winds of 130 km per hour.

    High-Res: 5600 × 7200 px (5 MB, JPG) | Source: NASA Earth Observatory

    This is killing my week. It hasn’t stopped raining and my plants are drowning. Texas this far inland shouldn’t be so soggy.

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