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A young dust cloud at the grocery store with her mother sees a row of gossip magazines lining the checkout counter. She picks up a cover of Star! <\/i>magazine and whispers, \u201cOh, God\u2026 those are supermassive.\u201d<\/p>\n
The truth is, black holes come in all shapes and sizes, from micro to quasar. However, the media continues to impress unrealistic beauty standards upon millions of young nebulae, many of whom are resorting to unsafe methods to achieve the \u201cperfect\u201d celestial body. <\/p>\n
\u201cIf you look in magazines, on PBS science shows, movies, MacBook computer backgrounds, you keep seeing all these flawless spiral galaxies, digitally manipulated to enhance their color and luminosity,\u201d explains media specialist Stella Hoffman. \u201cThese are digitally mixed, multi-spectrum images. Without Photoshop, they would look completely grey.\u201d <\/p>\n
\u201cAdvertisers also select wavelengths that bypass interstellar dust to make their images clearer. So now we have all these young, hysterical clouds looking for ways to remove their dust, which is just totally unrealistic.\u201d <\/p>\n
\u201cI mean\u2026 they\u2019re made of dust<\/em>,\u201d she added.<\/p>\n Media messages set in at very early ages. In a recent study, Hoffman\u2019s research team found that infant Dwarf galaxies prefer to play with Spiral Barbie Dolls overDwarf Barbie Dolls. She explains, \u201cThere\u2019s just no media representation of irregular galaxies. We\u2019re constantly bombarded with the message that all star systems need to be very thin and rotate extremely rapidly.\u201d <\/p>\n In addition, Hoffman explains, the \u201chottest\u201d stars are typically blue or white, leaving millions of red and orange stars uncomfortable in their own skin. Many are beginning to experiment with iron fusion to raise their core temperatures, despite the potentially deadly cost. <\/p>\n Parents who set a negative example for their children may also be responsible for these disturbing trends. \u201cMy mom\u2019s almost a red giant, and she\u2019s been getting hydrogen injections,\u201d Cloud G2-Alpha explains, shyly twirling a strand. \u201cI know she just wants to stop having Helium flashes, but I don\u2019t see why I can\u2019t try to look pretty, too.\u201d <\/p>\n In related news, new evidence has been suggesting that negative media pressure affects men as well as women. A recent survey found that 35% of male Barred Galaxies think their bar should be bigger, and 60% of all male solar systems are unhappy about the size of their asteroid belts. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" By Morgan Pantuck April 20, 2014 A young dust cloud at the grocery store with her mother sees a row of gossip magazines lining the checkout counter. She picks up a cover of Star! magazine and whispers, \u201cOh, God\u2026 those are supermassive.\u201d The truth is, black holes come in all shapes and sizes, from micro to quasar. However, the media continues to impress unrealistic beauty standards upon millions of young nebulae, many of whom are resorting to unsafe methods to achieve the \u201cperfect\u201d celestial body. \u201cIf you look in magazines, on PBS science shows, movies, MacBook computer backgrounds, you keep seeing all these flawless spiral galaxies, digitally manipulated to enhance their color and luminosity,\u201d explains media specialist Stella Hoffman. \u201cThese are digitally mixed, multi-spectrum images. Without Photoshop, they would look completely grey.\u201d \u201cAdvertisers also select wavelengths that bypass interstellar dust to make their images clearer. So now we have all these young, hysterical clouds looking for ways to remove their dust, which is just totally unrealistic.\u201d \u201cI mean\u2026 they\u2019re made of dust,\u201d she added. Media messages set in at very early ages. In a recent study, Hoffman\u2019s research team found that infant Dwarf galaxies prefer to play with Spiral Barbie Dolls overDwarf Barbie Dolls. She explains, \u201cThere\u2019s just no media representation of irregular galaxies. We\u2019re constantly bombarded with the message that all star systems need to be very thin and rotate extremely rapidly.\u201d In addition, Hoffman explains, the \u201chottest\u201d stars are typically blue or white, leaving millions of red and orange stars uncomfortable in their own skin. Many are beginning to experiment with iron fusion to raise their core temperatures, despite the potentially deadly cost. Parents who set a negative example for their children may also be responsible for these disturbing trends. \u201cMy mom\u2019s almost a red giant, and she\u2019s been getting hydrogen injections,\u201d Cloud G2-Alpha explains, shyly twirling a strand. \u201cI know she just wants to stop having Helium flashes, but I don\u2019t see why I can\u2019t try to look pretty, too.\u201d In related news, new evidence has been suggesting that negative media pressure affects men as well as women. A recent survey found that 35% of male Barred Galaxies think their bar should be bigger, and 60% of all male solar systems are unhappy about the size of their asteroid belts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2179","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-komono"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2179","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2179"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2179\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3212,"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2179\/revisions\/3212"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2179"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2179"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2179"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}