A dense starfield fills the entire frame with an even denser central cluster of stars.
Tiny ducklings waddling together in a great sea of stars -- also known as M11 or the "Wild Duck Cluster".
Image credit: my tiny telescope (about 2.5 hours)
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Another irrational number.
Yes -- among other outlets!
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Northern! I'm in California.
Would have been especially cool if there were actually 2 stars at that location.
I had to stare at it a moment to figure out if it was a little streak of cloud catching the last sunlight -- or the moon.
The eclipse was clouded over here -- but this is close π
Image of the moon with only a tiny sliver illuminated.
Watching the moon set on a hot, muggy evening.
Image credit: my tiny telescope.
Thanks! Especially challenging to get that much time with winter's cloudy/rainy weather! 16 arcminutes is roughly half the width of the full moon, so this nebula is a huge, beautiful flower-like ghost.
I have a black hole joke but Iβm not sure youβd get anything out of it
Me, if I was a Lego figurine, battling a flying lion with a dagger and an axe.
Google photos auto-created an album of "photos of me" over the years.... and included this particular one π
Fortunately, my Lego doppelganger is incapable of implicating me in any real-world mischief!
I'm more of a night owl who's forced to get the kids to school and myself to work on time π
Thanks!
Pre-dawn blue hour. And the moon's crescent has barely risen above a mountain edge.
Moonrise (about 1 hour before sunrise).
Happy Ο Day! To prep, feast on this article on a brand new discovery for the ancient constant. My latest slice for SciAm! It's irrationally enjoyable... π₯§
www.scientificamerican.com/article/math...
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Originally, it was a mix of practicality (knowing for certain a few digits of pi for engineering purposes) but also because ancient Greece was in its golden age 2,000 years ago, when it was an intellectual hub. The Greek philosophers/mathematicians loved geometry which pi directly comes from.
How did Archimedes get an account on BlueSky? π
Happy Ο Day! To prep, feast on this article on a brand new discovery for the ancient constant. My latest slice for SciAm! It's irrationally enjoyable... π₯§
www.scientificamerican.com/article/math...
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Louis Lane has this problem too... π
Woot!
Nebulous blue gas surrounded by red gas against a sea of stars. Looks a bit like a galactic flower.
The ancient remains of Abell 31, a planetary nebula that is dissolving back into the Milky Way as its central star nears the white dwarf stage.
Image credit: 15 hrs on my tiny telescope
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Portrait of Γmile du ChΓ’telet by Maurice Quentin de la Tour
For #WomensHistoryMonth: Let us celebrate the life and accomplishments of French mathematician and physicist Γmilie du ChΓ’telet (1706-1749). She spread the then-new ideas of Isaac Newton on the Continent, and played a key role in developing the idea of energy conservation. π’βοΈπ§ͺ #WomenInSTEM π§΅1/7
Thanks for enjoying them with me. I'm in awe of our universe.
A huge flame-like red nebula inside a sea of colorful stars
The Flaming Star Nebula, IC 405: the lucky accident of a wandering star lighting up a gas cloud as it passes through.
Image credit: my tiny telescope
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Just wanted to share this again because BlueSky had a big outage when I shared it the first time. My latest for Scientific American:
www.scientificamerican.com/article/are-...
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My grandfather fixed radios on the Black side of town. White-owned repair shops also brought him radios they couldn't fix. He made enough money to open a few grocery stores as a "retirement business".