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Sarafina Nance

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i missed World Mental Health Day yesterday. it seems like there's something to celebrate and acknowledge every day, but this one in particular is important to me.this will not be

lemme tell you about relativistic space fireballs.yeah, you read that right.space fireballs, or flashes that release as much energy in SECONDS as the Sun releases in its entire 10 billion

why is the sky dark at night?the answer is actually pretty complex & relies on some of the coolest parts of our Universe—the expansion of space-time, the speed of light,

HELLOOO THE MOST MASSIVE BLACK HOLE MERGER **EVER** WAS JUST DISCOVERED 5 GIGAPARSECS AWAY, when the Universe was about HALF its current age. physics is SO COOL!!! the black hole

i want to tell you a story about being navigating healthcare and advocating for myself as a young woman in the US. after testing positive for the BRCA2 mutation, which

some stars explode, their light as bright as entire galaxies, while others collapse in on themselves, stuffing all their mass into a tiny yet supermassive blip in spacetime. there are

I carry the same genetic mutation that killed my grandmother, and is killing my dad. Left to its own devices, it could kill me too. My grandmother died when I

I spent much of today reading & putting together a list of resources for anti-racism. Here is a thread of what I found, compiled from the NYT, The Cut, &

okay, i’ll bite- what’s dark energy i’m so sorry i find this absolutely hilarious and I realize this is purely because I’ve been deriving dark energy stuff all day and

my quarantine mood is writing a sentence, throwing my dog his ball, and repeating said cycle until i pass out he won’t stop bringing it back and i refuse to

i need everyone to know that massive stars burp off parts of their surfaces at the ends of their lives. stars can lose a SOLAR MASS of material per year

my partner and i just woke up to a woman sobbing in an apartment nearby and shouting “please don’t kill me.” she then ran down the hallway away from her