NASA isn’t the only space agency with exciting missions 🚀
A planetary scientist shares the six space missions they are most excited to follow in the #newyear (including Nasa’s mission to send humans around the Moon and back):
Participants take an ice-cold bath during a ceremony to purify their souls and to pray for the new year at the Teppozu Inari shrine in Tokyo
Participants pray as they take an ice-cold bath during a ceremony to purify their souls and to pray for the new year at the Teppozu Inari shrine in Tokyo, Japan, January 14. REUTERS/Kim Kyung-Hoon
Helios, the Sun, rises another day, illuminating a #NewYear. #Helios was associated with the turn of the year as he passes through the constellations of the zodiac:
"The golden #Sun [Sol-Helios] rules his circuit, portioned out in fixed divisions, through the world's twelve constellations."
Virgil, Georgics 1.231
Have a beautiful Day of Aphrodite aka Venus' Day aka Frigg's Day aka Friday 🌹
I'm planning to spend the rest of my #NewYear's week off work just like Venus-Aphrodite in this #neoclassical painting. What about you?
🏛️ Sleeping #Venus by Giorgione, dated 1510 CE, probably finished by his pupil Titian after his death. Today in the Gemäldegalerie Alte Meister, #Dresden
The wheels are turning and time is moving; for us it is the start of a new year, but for the old gods it is part of their long sleep. The night maybe shortening but the cold still runs deep.
For get the vows we make to ourselves, honour the deep magics of the season instead — Æftera Geol-monaþ: the second passing still continues. #folklore#oldenglish#newyear
Some ppl think it's hard to do more of yearly meals as #Plantbased#Vegan.
It's simple.
Every meal we do that way is another positive ripple.
It's good for health & longevity.
It's good for quality of life.
It's good for planet.
It's good for animals.
It's good for defunding the most polluting resource intensive industries & their awful politicians.
It helps everyone.
🙄 #smh. #nfl fans get ruffled so damn easy, it’s sad. Who cares what an old man says about your team. .. … ! … then again it shows us how super sensitive #Chiefs fans are today, y’all should include the #Eagles too. @nfl#nfl —
@macmsp@nfl it’s all good, I think we guys love to complain about certain things especially sport related stuff. I can understand they all want some of that llama drama but they have to focus their energy on other better things. #HappyNewYear
(* Warning: video is shaky. I had no plans to take videos.)
New Year celebrations in the Philippines has gone a long way. Decades ago, almost every family have their own fireworks and firecrackers. It ranged from the biggest, loudest, longest, and most dangerous, to the smallest, quieter, and still dangerous. In addition, it can take an hour or two before it starts to get calmer (three hours in some areas).
For the past ten years, the Philippines implemented and enforced better fireworks quality control and banned the dangerous ones. There are still some that slips through the cracks. In addition, organised celebrations have become common.
This is the Gregorian New Year celebration of 2024 in our hometown. It's the quietest and shortest to date.