Afternoon Encounters 🌴

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still can’t believe that given the choice between “bountiful, free, clean energy from the earth, wind, and sun” and “poisonous dead animal sludge price sensitive to global politics” we keep choosing the latter

A spotted comb jelly at the Monterey Bay aquarium 🪼

#MarineLife #Ctenophores #CtenophoreCtuesday #Colloblasts #MBARI #Statocyst #LeucotheaPulchra #CombJellies #Prisms

薄雲の向こう、明るい月の近くを、ISSが夜空を通り過ぎて行きました。
人が住む星は、いつ見ても手を振りたくなりますね。
#きぼうを見よう

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Face-on spiral galaxy NGC 3982
Image date: 19 October 2010, 15:00


Though the universe is chock full of spiral-shaped galaxies, no two look exactly the same. This face-on spiral galaxy, called NGC 3982, is striking for its rich tapestry of star birth, along with its winding arms. The arms are li...

スピッツァー宇宙望遠鏡が赤外線でとらえた棒渦巻銀河NGC 1291。年齢120億歳の銀河です。リング状の赤い領域には、新しい星がたくさん存在しています。それらの星に温められた塵が赤外線を放っています。

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Image Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech

朝からいっぱい作った🐬

sailor mars melting ice that reads “fuck ice”

sometimes magical, always anti-fascist.

#fuckice #abolishice

so tired of my family non-stop talking about church when they ignore the injustices going on around them 😍 i’m so sick of christians!!!!

NASA image release January 23, 2013 Nearly 200 000 light-years from Earth, the Large Magellanic Cloud, a satellite galaxy of the Milky Way, floats in space, in a long and slow dance around our galaxy. As the Milky Way’s gravity gently tugs on its neighbour’s gas clouds, they collapse to form new stars. In turn, these light up the gas clouds in a kaleidoscope of colours, visible in this image from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope. To read more go to: 1.usa.gov/10vcJIi NASA image use policy. NASA Goddard Space Flight Center enables NASA’s mission through four scientific endeavors: Earth Science, Heliophysics, Solar System Exploration, and Astrophysics. Goddard plays a leading role in NASA’s accomplishments by contributing compelling scientific knowledge to advance the Agency’s mission. Follow us on Twitter Like us on Facebook Find us on Instagram

Hubble Sees Hidden Treasure in Large Magellanic Cloud - From Goddard Space Flight Center - https://flic.kr/p/dNXCK4

Image of 3I/ATLAS from December 14. Imaging details * Anti-solar-tail a rich deep blue more evident on the starless versions. * Over two hours of integration time with waning crescent moon present. * Measured magnitude 10.8.

Nice image of our interstellar visitor 3I/ATLAS from Dan Bartlett in California and the comet-ml. Note that the coma is green and there is a blue tail and anti-tail. This is from a 2 hour exposure.

Image of comet 3I/ATLAS posted on facebook by Gerald Rhemann Text: Interstellar Comet 3I/Atlas 02 12 2025 UT 01h39m Location: Farm Tivoli, Namibia Telescope: ASA Astrograph 12" f3.6 Camera: ZWO ASI 6200 MM Pro Exp. Time: LRGB 20/6/6/6 min. North is up FOV: 75x110´ Gerald Rhemann and Michael Jäger

Here is a stunning image of Interstellar Comet 3I/ATLAS, taken on Dec. 2 by astrophotographers Gerald Rhemann and Michael Jäger, showing the comet's long wispy plasma tail in full glory and a dusty anti-tail.

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NGC 6188 is a large emission nebula located some 4000 light years distant in the Southern constellation Ara. This giant molecular cloud is being illuminated by the young star cluster NGC 6193 which in this image appears in the centre almost as if suspended in front of a blanket of nebulousity littered with thousands of other dimmer stars in a multitude of colours. At the centre of this cluster lies an intensely bright pair of stars; the O-type giants HD 150135 and HD 150136. The latter is in fact itself an extremely close binary with a confirmed third component in an outer eccentric orbit of between 2950 and 5500 days. This triple star system is one of the most massive in our galaxy with the three components containing 64, 40 and 35 solar masses respectively. The cluster is very young, not older than 3 million years, and the intense radiation from the massive stars is slowly eroding the surrounding gas and dust away, sculpting it into the striking forms seen in this image. Within these clouds new stars are currently being born and in places some have already begun to light up the nebula from within. Image details: Date: 12th, 13th and 14th June 2012 Exposure: LRGB: 250:105:105:105m, total 9hrs 25mins @ -30C Telescope: 10" Serrurier Truss Newtonian Camera: QSI 683wsg with Lodestar guider Filters: Astrodon LRGB E-Series Gen 2 Taken from my observatory in Auckland, New Zealand

NGC 6188 and NGC 6193 in Ara - From Rolf Wahl Olsen - https://flic.kr/p/cgYXQu

Life is extremely kiki right now and I would really like it to be just a little more bouba

This deal to reopen the government is fucking disgraceful.

Tens of millions will lose their healthcare. Trump will be emboldened.

This is exactly what’s wrong with Democratic Party leadership and why we need more people in Congress who will actually hold the line.

#doodles

#illustration #painting
“I needed you “

magdalena bay this friday🥰

life got better for me when i stopped listening to sabrina carpenter and taylor swift

Digital artwork of a girl with blue hair sitting amongst the waves, with a crescent moon shining above her.

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Charlie Kirk’s Legacy Deserves No Mourning The white Christian nationalist provocateur wasn’t a promoter of civil discourse. He preached hate, bigotry, and division

The Nation pulls NO punches, from @espiers.bsky.social

"There's no requirement to take part in this whitewashing campaign. Refusing to join in doesn’t make anyone a bad person. It’s a choice to write an obituary that begins “Joseph Goebbels was a gifted marketer and loving father to six children.”

jesus was not a christian and neither am i

there’s no such thing as an ethical billionaire. it’s not sexist to point this out. yall will defend your favorite white billionaire bc you infantilize her even though she’s stepped on peoples’ necks to get there

@tsuzimaru.bsky.social lomlll

if you ever think i look ugly just know that jewels sparkles thinks im gorgeous so your opinion doesn’t matter #dragrace #jewelssparkles

is it the process of getting them that’s intimidating? bc i know ur gov is being awful rn towards trans folks