From NASA APOD - PanSTARRS and Planets Image Credit & Copyright: Luc Perrot (TWAN) Explanation: Near the eastern horizon before sunrise, Comet C/2025 R3 PanSTARRS is getting brighter. Readily visible in binoculars and small telescopes, the comet may be just on the verge of naked-eye visibility from dark sky sites. Though it was not quite apparent to the eye, PanSTARRS is still easy to spot in this camera image taken on April 16. In the view from a volcanic peak overlooking France's Reunion Island, planet Earth, the comet shares eastern predawn skies with naked-eye planets Mars and Mercury and fainter Neptune. Saturn is hiding behind the low cloudbank that doesn't quite hide an old crescent Moon. This is a good weekend for northern hemisphere comet watchers to try to catch PanSTARRS an hour or so before sunrise, as the comet grows brighter approaching its perihelion on April 19. On April 26 the comet makes its closest approach to our fair planet but by then will be difficult to see in the solar glare. Good views of this comet PanSTARRS in late April and early May will be from the southern hemisphere.

‪Another outstanding artistic pic of comet C/2025 R3 (PanSTARRS) captured by astrophotographer Luc Perrot on April 16 from a volcanic peak overlooking France's Reunion Island.

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Things I discovered today:

Ownership of the #Bears hashtag seems to be split three ways, between fans of bears (the animal), fans of bears (the LGBTQ community), and fans of Bears (the Chicago football team). 😅

Meanwhile, virtually every Canadian governmental official (with the exception of our privacy commissioner) is not only not questioning the legality of X becoming the largest CSAM and non-consensual porn site on the internet, they continue to support the site by posting there.

where is this queen. how is she

Dave Mathews in a keffiyeh holding up signs that say STOP THE GENOCIDE and STOP KILLING CHILDREN at a concert

This is not a knock on DMB but if you had told me twenty years ago that Dave Mathews would be this outspoken on an issue that Radiohead completely shat the bed on, well... I would've been surprised!

We already KNOW how to make super babies, you eugenicist creeps! And it's all the things you fucking fucks are fucking up! THREAD!

lol disc horse bot discretion is not your strong suit

oh NO

but was that really water

my actual hope is for robby and al hashimi ONE DAY

mel and langdon fireworks helloooo

she didn't even say goodb ye :(

ok my actual and only complaint is don't go samira mohan

i do think that some people should kiss but i also think that other people should not.

and also where we can all compare which parts we cried at

where is my local water cooler where i can talk to someone about al-hashimi's beautiful hair

NO KISSING IN THE ER??? PHOOEY

for like 15 hours i wasn't able to watch the pitt finale and i had to mute everything. but now i've seen the pitt finale and i was able to unmute anything. little update from me

see also dr robby

my job is laptop but I don't fully understand laptop so my daily life is full of small mysteries and this keeps me beautifully naive as like a foal

it’s a leftist skill

The Female Gaze is Real and Disgusting

nobody drinks water like that

i think PP drinkin vodka in this clip

they got the Church of England supporting the Pope now

audience is eating it up lol

The New York Times telling me that my dog is dumb

Bitch I will beat your ass

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Screenshot of Lord of the Rings. The main character says "All right, then. Keep your secrets."