The James Webb Space Telescope has captured stunning images of the gas giants in our solar system. The images show Saturn with its intricate rings, Jupiter with its swirling storms and bands, Uranus with its tilted rings and hazy atmosphere, and Neptune with its faint rings and dynamic weather patterns. These images reveal the beauty and complexity of these distant worlds and offer new insights into their formation and evolution.

JWST images of all four gas giants in our Solar System.
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I heard that Andrew Tate tried to come stretch his awkward wings here and got banned in just one day.

Sorry, hate has no home here. Stay in the bad place, thanks.

It's not a difference of political opinions if the opposing side's opinion is that you aren't human or shouldn't exist. That's not how anything works.

Butterfly shape coloured with the Scottish saltire flag and the word yes in the middle

Happy Sunday afternoon everyone!
Thanks to everyone who has followed me on here. Day three for me and the third day fighting a migraine, so if I miss anyone give me a nudge! 👋🙂

On Jan. 22, 2011, NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) took this image of the Moon from a distance of 39 km. The remarkable thing about it is that the Apollo 11 lunar module is in this frame. Can you find it?
#planetaryScience #spaceExploration 🧪🔭🚀🛰️

Credit: NASA/GSFC/Arizona State University

Nice to see you here! 👋🙂

Look to community. Look to friends and family who stood with us and who suffer the grief of this loss with us. In their company find comfort. And when you are ready to stand up and fight, I will be with you, too.

We will prevail. For the light always defeats the darkness. /end

So don’t give up hope. Do not despair. That is what they want, and we shall not give them that satisfaction. In Japanese, there is a word my mother used to say to me.

“Gaman, Georgie,” she’d say. It means to endure with fortitude and dignity. We all could benefit the spirit of Gaman. /5

… very last breath. I ask you to join me in that fight. It is a noble one. It is a worthy one. And it is one we fight on behalf not just of ourselves, but of generations to come.

When you are my age, you will be able to look back upon this time and be proud of what you did, what you stood for. /4

But we did not give up on this country. We rebuilt our lives, and we worked to ensure that something like this never happened again in America.

Now, I fear there are echoes from that dark chapter of our history. They are speaking once again of camps to hold people, this time for the crime of /2

…being undocumented. We must not repeat the mistakes of the past. We can learn from them. I know it feels bleak out there. I know it feels hopeless. But I am living proof that out of that darkness can rise great hope and optimism.

I will fight for the principles of this country until my /3

I have faced fascism before, in this very country. I was one of 120,000 Japanese Americans summarily rounded up and expelled from our homes at gunpoint, all for the crime of looking like the people who bombed Pearl Harbor.

I spent my childhood behind barbed wire. My parents lost everything. 1/

Love this. ‘Queue’ is from the French word with the same spelling (but pronounced as ‘kuh’) meaning an animal’s long tail.

In the 18th and 19th centuries it also referred to a pigtail and was sometimes spelled as ‘cue’, which gave us the name of the long thin rod used in snooker.

Hello, bright new world. I'm Patt from OorPatts.com The Glasgow artist, with a range of cards, prints, mugs, tote bags etc...
Tell yer pals and if you could... could you tell my pals😁

Word of the Day is a true favourite, as some of you will know.

Apricity (17th century) is the warmth of the sun on a winter’s day.

Post from Latino pollster Mike Madrid: “Doing some research for an upcoming article on the last “mass deportation” of Mexicans during the 1930’s. Over half of those deported were US citizens.”

Indeed. When they rounded up the Japanese Americans, myself and my family included, for internment during WWII out of fear over Japanese spies and saboteurs, two thirds of us were U.S. citizens.

Don’t think it won’t happen again when they come for the “undocumented.”

Brace yourselves...

Thread with really useful block lists 📌

Hey Katie, great to see you here! 👋

A map of flight paths emanating from breeding colony of gulls, with this caption: Early on, LifeWatch noticed something odd. Most gulls were making daily trips to Mouscron, a city on the French border 65 km away. They went to investigate and found the birds bingeing on discarded snacks at the Roger & Roger potato factory.

Today in relatable science: Gulls making a mysterious daily trip that turned out to be to a potato chip factory

Will do! I sent her a message earlier, will let her know when she replies 🙂

Haven't spoken to her for a bit, but she posted a couple of weeks ago that life is good. I think a lot of us have just gone off that other site and gone quiet there.

Also, BookSky needs a Tartan Noir section!

On BookSky that whole "show us 20 books" thing is making the rounds. I mean, how to choose only 20 though? Where to even start and then it's already over before it began. 😂

A moonlit beach with ripples in the sand. The water is reflecting the moon light with tiny fluffy clouds in the sky. In the foreground is the wooden breaker and a red metal marker with the number 2 on the top of it.

If you've got clear skies, go outside and wave at our neighbour who is looking particularly stunning tonight. And if you have them, root out the binoculars to get a closer look at the grey maria: ~3.5 billion years ago these were seas of molten lava 🤓 #supermoon 🔭🧪

A 23x79 pixel image that contains depictions of the numbers 1-10, the solar system, the general shape of humans, basic biochemical structures, and the Arecibo dish used to broadcast the message. It looks like graphics from an Atari 2600 game. Image: NASA / JPL

Hubble image of the globular cluster M13. It is a dense and glittering collection of white, pale blue, and golden yellow stars. NASA, ESA, and the Hubble Heritage Team (STScI/AURA); Acknowledgment: C. Bailyn (Yale University), W. Lewin (Massachusetts Institute of Technology), A. Sarajedini (University of Florida), and W. van Altena (Yale University)

The "Arecibo Message" was beamed towards globular cluster M13, in the constellation Hercules, #OTD in 1974. The broadcast took place during the dedication of an upgrade to the radio telescope.

It was the first message sent with the intention of alerting extraterrestrials to life on Earth. 🧪 🔭 👽

Hubble WFPC2 and WFC3 obserations of Uranus from 1995 to 2020, showing the changing view of the planet as it went from southern summer to northern spring.

#Uranus reaches 2024 opposition tomorrow. For more than 30 years, #Hubble has watched the shifting Uranian seasons, from southern summer solstice (seen by Voyager 2 in 1986), through equinox in 2007, and (hopefully) on to northern summer solstice in 2030. #planetaryscience 📸 NASA/ESA/STScI/Fletcher

If you ever get lost in the Milky Way galaxy, here is a map.