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𝐹𝓊𝓁𝓁 𝒩𝒶𝓂𝑒
Charlotte Elizabeth Diana Princess
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𝐹𝓊𝓁𝓁 𝒯𝒾𝓉𝓁𝑒
Her Royal Highness Princess Charlotte of Wales
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𝐵𝓸𝓇𝓃:
Saturday, May 2nd, 2015 in the Lindo Wing at St. Mary’s Hospital in Paddington, London, England
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𝒫𝒶𝓇𝑒𝓃𝓉𝓈:
Father: High Royal Highness Prince William Duke of Cambridge
Mother: Her Royal Highness Catherine Duchess of Cambridge
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𝒮𝒾𝒷𝓁𝒾𝓃𝑔𝓈:
Oldest Brother: Prince George of Cambridge
Youngest Brother: Prince Louis of Cambridge
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𝐸𝒹𝓊𝒸𝒶𝓉𝒾𝓸𝓃:
Willcocks Nursery School (Jan. 2018 - Sept. 2019)
Thomas's London Day Schools (Sept. 2019 - June 2022)
Lambrook Independent Prepatory School (2022 - Present)
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𝐹𝒶𝒸𝓉𝓈:
She’s a very easy going.
She is a better sleeper than her brother George & the 2 siblings have a very close relationship.
Her nickname for her grandmother Queen Elizabeth is Gan Gan.
When she was younger, Charlotte’s favorite toys were a soft Fuddlewuddle puppy from the company Jellycat & The Gruffalo Audio Books. Now her favorite toy is a soft plus rabbit named Bunny & she takes Bunny with her everywhere along with reading books or having books read to her like the Harry Potter series.
She is third in line for the throne after her grandfather/father & mother/older brother Prince George.
She’s learning how to cook & bake with help from her mother & nanny. Charlotte has her own apron while following Kate around the kitchen. She has a sweet tooth & loves ice cream, cupcakes, & chocolate
The young princess plays tennis & dances.
She has learned Spanish from her nanny.
Charlotte’s favorite TV Show is Peppa Pig.
She loves animals & her favorite is a Unicorn
Her first word said in public was pop because of balloons that she touched at a party
Charlotte is a mini-me of her grandmother Queen Elizabeth & mother The Duchess of Cambridge.
She has lots of friends at school & is very popular.
The little princess is definitely very out-going & doesn’t let any obstacles in her way while being very confident. Charlotte & her siblings occasionally accompany their parents on royal engagements, tours, & diplomatic visits.
Charlotte loves the camera & paparazzi & will wave to everyone.
She loves dancing & music.
Her nicknames are Lottie, Mignonette, & Warrior Princess. Her name honors her grandfather King Charles, her great grandmother Queen Elizabeth II, & her grandmother Diana The Princess of Wales.
Charlotte & George love playing outdoors & seeing animals. She also enjoys horse back riding & has been seen attending lessons & doing pony rides.
Her favorite foods are Italian like pizza, olives, & pasta or spicy foods like curry.
Charlotte’s favorite color is Pink
She is the boss when at home,
Her birth was marked by gun salutes & illuminating London landmarks pink.
Charlotte is estimated to be worth more than £3 Billion to the British Economy throughout her lifetime. In August 2023, Reader’s Digest valued her at $4.6 billion or £3 billion.
Our Newest Solar Scope Is Ready for a Balloon Ride 🎈
Along with the Korea Astronomy and Space Science Institute, or KASI, we're getting ready to test a new way to see the Sun, high over the New Mexico desert.
A balloon — which looks a translucent white pumpkin, but large enough to hug a football field — will soon take flight, carrying a solar scope called BITSE. BITSE is a coronagraph, a special kind of telescope that blocks the bright face of the Sun to reveal its dimmer atmosphere, called the corona. BITSE stands for Balloon-borne Investigation of Temperature and Speed of Electrons in the corona.
Its goal? Explaining how the Sun spits out the solar wind, the stream of charged particles that blows constantly from the Sun. Scientists generally know it forms in the corona, but exactly how it does so is a mystery.
The solar wind is important because it’s the stuff that fills the space around Earth and all the other planets in our solar system. And, understanding how the solar wind works is key to predicting how solar eruptions travel. It’s a bit like a water slide: The way it flows determines how solar storms barrel through space. Sometimes, those storms crash into our planet’s magnetic field, sparking disturbances that can interfere with satellites and communications signals we use every day, like radio or GPS.
Right now, scientists and engineers are in Fort Sumner, New Mexico, preparing to fly BITSE up to the edge of the atmosphere. BITSE will take pictures of the corona, measuring the density, temperature and speed of negatively charged particles — called electrons — in the solar wind. Scientists need these three things to answer the question of how the solar wind forms.
One day, scientists hope to send an instrument like BITSE to space, where it can study the Sun day in and day out, and help us understand the powerful forces that push the solar wind out to speeds of 1 million miles per hour. BITSE’s balloon flight is an important step towards space, since it will help this team of scientists and engineers fine-tune their tech for future space-bound missions.
Hours before sunrise, technicians from our Columbia Scientific Balloon Facility’s field site in Fort Sumner will ready the balloon for flight, partially filling the large plastic envelope with helium. The balloon is made of polyethylene — the same stuff grocery bags are made of — and is about as thick as a plastic sandwich bag, but much stronger. As the balloon rises higher into the sky, the gas in the balloon expands and the balloon grows to full size.
BITSE will float 22 miles over the desert. For at least six hours, it will drift, taking pictures of the Sun’s seething hot atmosphere. By the end of the day, it will have collected 40 feature-length movies’ worth of data.
BITSE’s journey to the sky began with an eclipse. Coronagraphs use a metal disk to mimic a total solar eclipse — but instead of the Moon sliding in between the Sun and Earth, the disk blocks the Sun’s face to reveal the dim corona. During the Aug. 21, 2017, total eclipse, our scientists tested key parts of this instrument in Madras, Oregon.
Now, the scientists are stepping out from the Moon’s shadow. A balloon will take BITSE up to the edge of the atmosphere. Balloons are a low-cost way to explore this part of the sky, allowing scientists to make better measurements and perform tests they can’t from the ground.
BITSE carries several important technologies. It’s built on one stage of lens, rather than three, like traditional coronagraphs. That means it’s designed more simply, and less likely to have a mechanical problem. And, it has a couple different sets of specialized filters that capture different kinds of light: polarized light — light waves that bob in certain directions — and specific wavelengths of light. The combination of these images provides scientists with information on the density, temperature and speed of electrons in the corona.
More than 22 miles over the ground, BITSE will fly high above birds, airplanes, weather and the blue sky itself. As the atmosphere thins out, there are less air particles to scatter light. That means at BITSE’s altitude, the sky is dimmer. These are good conditions for a coronagraph, whose goal is taking images of the dim corona. But even the upper atmosphere is brighter than space.
That’s why scientists are so eager to test BITSE on this balloon, and develop their instrument for a future space mission. The solar scope is designed to train its eyes on a slice of the corona that’s not well-studied, and key to solar wind formation. One day, a version of BITSE could do this from space, helping scientists gather new clues to the origins of the solar wind.
At the end of BITSE’s flight, the crew at the Fort Sumner field site will send termination commands, kicking off a sequence that separates the instrument and balloon, deploys the instrument’s parachute, and punctures the balloon. An airplane circling overhead will keep watch over the balloon’s final moments, and relay BITSE’s location. At the end of its flight, far from where it started, the coronagraph will parachute to the ground. A crew will drive into the desert to recover both the balloon and BITSE at the end of the day.
For more information on how we use balloons for high-altitude science missions, visit: https://www.nasa.gov/scientificballoons
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Science Balloons on Parade
You might see some of your favorite characters bobbing through the streets of New York City during Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade, but did you know that NASA's got some balloons of our own? Early December in Antarctica, we're planning to launch some behemoth balloons carrying science experiments and instruments to help unravel mysteries of our universe.
Like the parade balloons, these scientific balloons are filled with helium. But the science balloon is designed to soar above 130,000 feet, past the clouding views of our atmosphere. They can stay in the air from 2 hours to 100 days, depending on the balloon type and how heavy the science payload is (up to 6000 lbs). A typical, fully-inflated scientific balloon can be 460 ft in diameter and 396 ft in height, made of acres of sandwich bag-looking film. That’s MUCH larger than some parade balloons, and probably a pain to bring down 6th Avenue.
Like the parade balloons, these scientific balloons are filled with helium. But the science balloon is designed to soar above 130,000 feet, past the clouding views of our atmosphere.
So why launch these balloons in Antarctica? Winter in the South Pole means 24 hours of non-stop sunlight, which is great for studying our sun. Being at the poles, which has a weaker magnetic field than the rest of our planet, also means we can capture and study cosmic ray particles that would be too scattered by the Earth’s magnetic field elsewhere. Depending on the kind of science we'd like to do, we also launch balloons from places all over the world.
These balloons are great, inexpensive test-beds for scientific instruments that could one day end up on a space-bound mission. NASA's NuSTAR mission started out as a balloon experiment before it was refined and launched into space to study black holes and other supernova remnants. Learn more about our balloons, and see where these balloons are going using our tracker.
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Parade Photo: U.S. Air Force photo/Senior Airman Brian Ferguson
There are people out there who know what it’s like to walk around with a book inside you. For years you feel heavy and weighed down because you have this story to tell, but you’re not quite ready yet because it’s a story that you’re still living, whatever that story is. So you write, and write, and delete, and start over, and little by little you come apart, but in a beautiful way, until it all comes together. And you have a story that no longer lives in you, but one that you will live in from that day forward. And you feel free, you feel lighter, you feel complete, you feel finished - A Dream For Sale is that story. It’s not the first story, and it won’t be the last story, but it is the story I have to tell right now. If you read Love and Water and wondered what happens next, I’m ready to let you know. // A Dream For Sale - August 27th 🎈✂️🎈
updated room photos <3
Lost Balloons
(Pic is mine. Reproduce however you want)
when i look at the sky
i dont
see clouds
at least not as often as
i see feathers
from missing wings
i dont see myself
next to the stars
im in the middle
where lost balloons are found
i let one go once
it explored the sky
while i swore
it would come back
© @parasomnambulist December 15, 2020
Happy Valentine’s day! Here’s a canon couple from the sequel.
Hot air balloons in the night sky.
#balloons #illustration #coloredpencil #birthday #specialoccassion #happy
Nanette et les ballons🎈🎈🎈
Gift/fanart for @clownpalette !!
November 4 - National Unity Day in Russia.
Some of the kids he's dealt with are just bad. . . Some are good tho