May Sarton, from Journal of a Solitude

there is no justice in this world for girls who don’t want to get up but have to

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— 34 excuses for why we failed at love, Warsan Shire

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Above Ground, Clint Smith

“A man is lying on his deathbed and in the independence gained by the proximity of death, he says: “I have spent my life fighting the desire to end it.” Then a pupil mocks his teacher, who talks of nothing but death: “You’re always talking about death and yet you do not die.” “And yet I will die. I’m just singing my last song. One man’s song is longer, another man’s is shorter. At most, however, they differ by only a few words.””

— Franz Kafka, Letters to Milena

The bright star at the center of NGC 3132, while prominent when viewed by NASA’s Webb Telescope in near-infrared light, plays a supporting role in sculpting the surrounding nebula. A second star, barely visible at lower left along one of the bright star’s diffraction spikes, is the nebula’s source. It has ejected at least eight layers of gas and dust over thousands of year

Image Credit: NASA, ESA, Hubble Legacy Archive; Processing: Judy Schmidt

Sh2-308: A Dolphin Shaped Star Bubble

Wolf-Rayet stars in general have over 20 times the mass of our Sun and expel fast particle winds that can create iconic looking nebulas. In this case, the resulting star bubble spans over 60 light years, is about 70,000 years old, and happens to look like the head of a dolphin. Named Sh2-308 and dubbed the Dolphin-Head Nebula, the gas ball lies about 5,000 light years away and covers as much sky as the full moon -- although it is much dimmer.

Image Credit: Aleix Roig