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half of everyone on here 13-30 years old is a meanie mean person but everyone on here i’ve seen older than 35 (which is positively ancient by this site’s standards) has been chill and mellow and i am glad for their peaceful and friendly presence
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#DATA #statistics #i fucking love statistics #data analysishalf of everyone on here 13-30 years old is a meanie mean person but everyone on here i’ve seen older than 35 (which is positively ancient by this site’s standards) has been chill and mellow and i am glad for their peaceful and friendly presence
What about people under 13
why are you on here please don’t ruin yourself that early
Please excuse this long ~semi-related~ addition to your post. Maybe this is just wishful thinking because I recently turned 35 and running @buzzfeed‘s tumblr is literally my job, but 35 isn’t that ancient! I know we all have this notion that tumblr is full of ~youths~ which, like, fair! But there are a lot of us Secret (and Not-So-Secret) Olds here on this beautiful, cursed website.
Here’s the breakdown of age ranges on tumblr (n.b. — This data is from August 2014, but I suspect there hasn’t been an overly drastic change in the data since then. If someone has newer data, pls let me know. This was the best/most recent data set including the under 18 age range that I could find during a quick 5 minute search.):
Chart via @unwrapping, data via @npr / @strle.
ANYWAYS, thanks for liking us Olds.
Please refer to this the next time you hear the “Why are you ___ years old and still on social media”
We launched our Spitzer Space Telescope into orbit around the Sunday on Aug. 25, 2003. Since then, the observatory has been lifting the veil on the wonders of the cosmos, from our own solar system to faraway galaxies, using infrared light.
Thanks to Spitzer, scientists were able to confirm the presence of seven rocky, Earth-size planets in the TRAPPIST-1 system. The telescope has also provided weather maps of hot, gaseous exoplanets and revealed a hidden ring around Saturn. It has illuminated hidden collections of dust in a wide variety of locations, including cosmic nebulas (clouds of gas and dust in space), where young stars form, and swirling galaxies. Spitzer has additionally investigated some of the universe’s oldest galaxies and stared at the black hole at the center of the Milky Way.
In honor of Spitzer’s Sweet 16 in space, here are 16 amazing images from the mission.
This Spitzer image shows the giant star Zeta Ophiuchi and the bow shock, or shock wave, in front of it. Visible only in infrared light, the bow shock is created by winds that flow from the star, making ripples in the surrounding dust.
The Pleiades star cluster, also known as the Seven Sisters, is a frequent target for night sky observers. This image from Spitzer zooms in on a few members of the sisterhood. The filaments surrounding the stars are dust, and the three colors represent different wavelengths of infrared light.
Newborn stars peek out from beneath their blanket of dust in this image of the Rho Ophiuchi nebula. Called “Rho Oph” by astronomers and located about 400 light-years from Earth, it’s one of the closest star-forming regions to our own solar system.
The youngest stars in this image are surrounded by dusty disks of material from which the stars — and their potential planetary systems — are forming. More evolved stars, which have shed their natal material, are blue.
Located about 700 light-years from Earth, the eye-like Helix nebula is a planetary nebula, or the remains of a Sun-like star. When these stars run out of their internal fuel supply, their outer layers puff up to create the nebula. Our Sun will blossom into a planetary nebula when it dies in about 5 billion years.
The bright star at the center of this image is Eta Carinae, one of the most massive stars in the Milky Way galaxy. With around 100 times the mass of the Sun and at least 1 million times the brightness, Eta Carinae releases a tremendous outflow of energy that has eroded the surrounding nebula.
Located 28 million light-years from Earth, Messier 104 — also called the Sombrero galaxy or M104 — is notable for its nearly edge-on orientation as seen from our planet. Spitzer observations were the first to reveal the smooth, bright ring of dust (seen in red) circling the galaxy.
This infrared image of the galaxy Messier 81, or M81, reveals lanes of dust illuminated by active star formation throughout the galaxy’s spiral arms. Located in the northern constellation of Ursa Major (which includes the Big Dipper), M81 is also about 12 million light-years from Earth.
Messier 82 — also known as the Cigar galaxy or M82 — is a hotbed of young, massive stars. In visible light, it appears as a diffuse bar of blue light, but in this infrared image, scientists can see huge red clouds of dust blown out into space by winds and radiation from those stars.
This image of Messier 101, also known as the Pinwheel Galaxy or M101, combines data in the infrared, visible, ultraviolet and X-rays from Spitzer and three other NASA space telescopes: Hubble, the Galaxy Evolution Explorer’s Far Ultraviolet detector (GALEX) and the Chandra X-Ray Observatory. The galaxy is about 70% larger than our own Milky Way, with a diameter of about 170,000 light-years, and sits at a distance of 21 million light-years from Earth. Read more about its colors here.
Approximately 100 million years ago, a smaller galaxy plunged through the heart of the Cartwheel galaxy, creating ripples of brief star formation. As with the Pinwheel galaxy above, this composite image includes data from NASA’s Spitzer, Hubble, GALEX and Chandra observatories.
The first ripple appears as a bright blue outer ring around the larger object, radiating ultraviolet light visible to GALEX. The clumps of pink along the outer blue ring are X-ray (observed by Chandra) and ultraviolet radiation.
Located 1,500 light-years from Earth, the Orion nebula is the brightest spot in the sword of the constellation Orion. Four massive stars, collectively called the Trapezium, appear as a yellow smudge near the image center. Visible and ultraviolet data from Hubble appear as swirls of green that indicate the presence of gas heated by intense ultraviolet radiation from the Trapezium’s stars. Less-embedded stars appear as specks of green, and foreground stars as blue spots. Meanwhile, Spitzer’s infrared view exposes carbon-rich molecules called polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons, shown here as wisps of red and orange. Orange-yellow dots are infant stars deeply embedded in cocoons of dust and gas.
Located about 10,000 light-years from Earth in the constellation Auriga, the Spider nebula resides in the outer part of the Milky Way. Combining data from Spitzer and the Two Micron All Sky Survey (2MASS), the image shows green clouds of dust illuminated by star formation in the region.
This view of the North America nebula combines visible light collected by the Digitized Sky Survey with infrared light from NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope. Blue hues represent visible light, while infrared is displayed as red and green. Clusters of young stars (about 1 million years old) can be found throughout the image.
This infrared mosaic offers a stunning view of the Milky Way galaxy’s busy center. The pictured region, located in the Sagittarius constellation, is 900 light-years agross and shows hundreds of thousands of mostly old stars amid clouds of glowing dust lit up by younger, more massive stars. Our Sun is located 26,000 light-years away in a more peaceful, spacious neighborhood, out in the galactic suburbs.
The Large Magellanic Cloud, a dwarf galaxy located about 160,000 light-years from Earth, looks like a choppy sea of dust in this infrared portrait. The blue color, seen most prominently in the central bar, represents starlight from older stars. The chaotic, bright regions outside this bar are filled with hot, massive stars buried in thick blankets of dust.
In this large celestial mosaic from Spitzer, there’s a lot to see, including multiple clusters of stars born from the same dense clumps of gas and dust. The grand green-and-orange delta filling most of the image is a faraway nebula. The bright white region at its tip is illuminated by massive stars, and dust that has been heated by the stars’ radiation creates the surrounding red glow.
Managed by our Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, Spitzer’s primary mission lasted five-and-a-half years and ended when it ran out of the liquid helium coolant necessary to operate two of its three instruments. But, its passive-cooling design has allowed part of its third instrument to continue operating for more than 10 additional years. The mission is scheduled to end on Jan. 30, 2020.
Make sure to follow us on Tumblr for your regular dose of space: http://nasa.tumblr.com
Week Ending April 20th, 2020
The number in italics indicates how many spots a ship moved up or down from the previous week. The ones in bold weren’t on the list last week.
@buggachat LOOK AT THIS
Some person at tumblr staff.
Really went “#adrichat? Seems legit”.
And stuck it on the list.
And put a gif of Chat detransforming into Adrien in the same post.
W
Wonderful.
Pretty much, yeah.
So can we talk about the absolutely stunning duplicity going on here?
holy shit
I’m just gonna point out that Reuters created that first graphic.
The thing with statistics - via
Numbers don’t lie but people can sure as fuck pick and choose the numbers they give you and phrase things to make them sound like they mean things they don’t
learn fucking stats or at least how they can hurt
knowing how to interpret statistics is so important
It is nobodies RIGHT to take away someone else’s life.
Um. There hasn’t been a West Germany since the country unified in 1990. The poster featured here ran in 1981. Pretty sure the statistics have changed in the last 31 years.
We did it. We made it through! 12 months. 52 weeks. 365 days. 8,760 hours. 2017 is almost over. Let’s celebrate the stuff that made you happy. Here’s a toast to your favorite things on Tumblr.
This is Tumblr’s Year in Review: 2017
We looked over thousands of lines of data, scouring each and every popular tag in each and every popular category. We sorted this data with our very own Fandometrics rating technique, the pleasingly scientific system that measures searches, original posts, reblogs, and likes to rank your enthusiasm and love.
For the first year ever, we have a community guest post. Meme Documentation (@memedocumentation) got deep into the nostalgia surrounding 2017’s most popular memes.
Have questions about how this works? Wonder why Guy Fieri is not on any of these lists? Ask away! We’re going to answer your questions live on our Instagram on Wednesday, December 6 and again Wednesday, December 13.
Now here’s what you’ve been waiting for. Tumblr’s favorite things in 2017:
Ships
Remember: If your OTP didn’t make this list, it’s okay. It just means you are directly responsible and should’ve made more posts about them.
Animated TV
The only list where a self-loathing horse and an extremely rich duck can be found in competition with each other.
Live-Action TV
In the golden age of television, every single one of these is a winner. Some are just winnier than others.
Movies
Moonlight beat La La Land in this list, too, but neither were No. 1.
Actresses
You like them! You really like them!
Actors
Once again we find ourselves with a disproportionate amount of men named Chris. No one is complaining. Especially the men named Chris.
Models
20 women who have perfected everything from their smizes to their struts.
Television Personalities
The alternative name was “people who get paid a lot for being themselves on TV,” but that wasn’t very catchy.
Athletes
For a community based on competition, the sports community on Tumblr is incredibly supportive and kind.
Wrestling Superstars
Hit up this link or we’ll break out our meanest piledriver.
Web Series
We put all of your favorite stuff from the internet onto one list on the internet.
Web Celebrities
The definitive list of your favorite YouTubers, Twitchers, and podcasters.
Solo Artists
We’re warning you now: Taylor Swift was knocked down a peg. There’s a new No. 1 in these here parts.
Bands
Five of these bands have numbers in their names, ranging from one to 1975.
K-Pop
Get your light sticks ready!
K-Pop Band Members
Did your ultimate bias make No. 1?
Musicals
While we’re talking, let us offer you some free advice: Block less. Reblog more. Let your followers know what musical you’re against or what you’re for.
Video Games
⬆️⬆️⬇️⬇️⬅️➡️⬅️➡️🅱️🅰️
Books
You asked, we delivered. Feast your eyes on these words, you incredible bookworms.
Authors
Fun (?) fact: This is the only list in the batch that features a man who died over 400 years ago.
Anime & Manga
You’re gonna triple axel when you see what’s No. 1.
Tumblr Communities
They aren’t any more or less important than the communities that didn’t make the cut. They’re just the ones that tagged their posts the most.
Food & Drink
This list is zero carbs, and yet it’s full of carbs.
Animals
Old MacDonald had a blog, T-U-M-B-L-R.
Dog Breeds
Some puppers, a few pupperinos, a couple of fluffers, and, of course, a h*ckin’ boofer. boop this list, fren
Memes
Tired: Tagging your friend in a meme.
Wired: Tagging your friend in the replies to the Memes post.
I’m having a spirited debate and need a larger sample size