Speakeasy AU: Always heeled, in more senses than one. Keeps her clutch close ‘cause you never know when a girl’s gotta powder her nose (or burn powder). Some fellas who get in too deep suspect she’s the boss’s gun moll;
baby, don’t make that fatal underestimation.
All right I’m done abusing Prohibition Era slang. The real point of this is to say, YAY Lucy Liu has a new fashion spread for More. The one above (cropped and slightly edited) is my favorite out of six new hi-res shots.
Ready to play.
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*Chiaki
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Always reblog Chiaki.
Alien World Is the New Black
provided by Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics
Astronomers have discovered the darkest known exoplanet - a distant, Jupiter-sized gas giant known as TrES-2b. Their measurements show that TrES-2b reflects less than one percent of the sunlight falling on it, making it blacker than coal or any planet or moon in our solar system.
“TrES-2b is considerably less reflective than black acrylic paint, so it’s truly an alien world,” said astronomer David Kipping of the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics (CfA), lead author on the paper reporting the research.
In our solar system, Jupiter is swathed in bright clouds of ammonia that reflect more than a third of the sunlight reaching it. In contrast, TrES-2b (which was discovered in 2006 by the Trans-Atlantic Exoplanet Survey, or TrES) lacks reflective clouds due to its high temperature…
(read more: PhysOrg) (image: David A. Aguilar (CfA))
This is just fascinating, not just astronomy-wise (although it is certainly that), but as a stepping point for some creative sci-fi endeavor or suchlike. Quite the discovery.
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