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astronomicalwonders:

Rainbows in Orion – For Today’s Special Occasion!

After the announcement today I wanted to make a small tribute post: This image shows infrared observations taken by NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope
and the European Space Agency’s Herschel mission. It is a result of combining many different wavelengths of data and shows the complex structures within the Orion Nebula very well. Data from Spitzer shows warmer objects in blue, with progressively cooler dust appearing green and red in the Herschel datasets.

Credit: NASA JPL/ESA/Spitzer/Herschel

Even the universe is celebrating…

lgbtlaughs:

BREAKING: The Supreme Court says same sex couples have the right to marry in all 50 states

WASHINGTON (AP) – The Supreme Court declared Friday that same-sex couples have a right to marry anywhere in the United States.

Gay and lesbian couples already can marry in 36 states and the District of Columbia. The court’s 5-4 ruling means the remaining 14 states, in the South and Midwest, will have to stop enforcing their bans on same-sex marriage.

The outcome is the culmination of two decades of Supreme Court litigation over marriage, and gay rights generally.

Justice Anthony Kennedy wrote the majority opinion, just as he did in the court’s previous three major gay rights cases dating back to 1996. It came on the anniversary of two of those earlier decisions.

“No union is more profound than marriage,” Kennedy wrote, joined by the court’s four more liberal justices.

The ruling will not take effect immediately because the court gives the losing side roughly three weeks to ask for reconsideration. But some state officials and county clerks might decide there is little risk in issuing marriage licenses to same-sex couples.