What created this unusual planetary nebula? Dubbed the Pillow Nebula and the Flying Carpet Nebula, NGC 7027 is one of the smallest, brightest, and most unusually shaped planetary nebulas known. Given its expansion rate, NGC 7027 first started expanding, as visible from Earth, about 600 years ago. For much of its history, the planetary nebula has been expelling shells, as seen in blue in the featured image by the Hubble Space Telescope. In modern times, though, for reasons unknown, it began ejecting gas and dust (seen in brown) in specific directions that created a new pattern that seems to have four corners. What lies at the nebula's center is unknown, with one hypothesis holding it to be a close binary star system where one star sheds gas onto an erratic disk orbiting the other star. NGC 7027, about 3,000 light years away, was first discovered in 1878 and can be seen with a standard backyard telescope toward the constellation of the Swan (Cygnus).
NGC 7027: The Pillow Planetary Nebula
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Baby Esel mit Topfschnitt Frisur
Babyesel haben von Natur aus einen Topfschnitt, der irgendwann raus wächst, und das ist meine liebste Info über Esel.
Und die Vorstellung, dass ihre Mütter diese Frisur heimlich im Stall selbst schneiden und uns Menschen damit in die Irre führen.
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Happy #Caturday
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Es ist bezeichnend, wenn eine Satire-Show vormachen muss, wie gute Vorbereitung und kritisches Nachfragen geht. Dabei ist es kein Hexenwerk, weil #Söder immer die gleichen Ablenkungsmanöver startet. Klappt ja meistens. Hier nicht. Ist ungewohnt und macht Söder augenscheinlich schlechte Laune. 😛
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China deklassiert Deutschland bei Energiewende – in nur 5 Monaten
China deklassiert Deutschland bei der Energiewende und baut seine Energieversorgung in einem atemberaubenden Tempo um. Eine Detailanalyse.
„Wenn selbst ein autoritär geführter Staat wie China seine Energieversorgung umbaut, nicht als grünes Projekt, sondern als geopolitisches Risikomanagement, dann verliert die Debatte über einen „deutschen Sonderweg“ ihre Grundlage.“
finanzmarktwelt.de/china-deklas...
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Fritze M€rz nennt das "einen guten Deal". Wen will er und seine Freunde von der Presse hier für dumm verkaufen?
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The very minute that anyone becomes okay with this is the moment that they must accept that there is no redemption, or forgiveness coming. The afterlife will be filled with fire & suffering if karma doesn’t get them first while they’re still on earth.
Matthew 18:6 MAGA. Read it.
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VIDEO: NYC subway station floods as heavy rain sweeps US northeast
Heavy rain flooded a New York City subway station as a slow-moving storm prompted flash flood warnings across a wide swathe of the eastern US seaboard
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VERKAUFT
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Der schwedische Milliardär Johan Eliasch kaufte 400.000 Acres Amazonas-Regenwald, indem er ein Holzunternehmen erwarb, dem das Land gehörte. Er stellte den Betrieb des Unternehmens ein, um den Wald vor weiterer kommerzieller Zerstörung zu schützen.
Der schwedische Milliardär Johan Eliasch kaufte 400.000 Acres Amazonas-Regenwald, indem er ein Holzunternehmen erwarb, dem das Land gehörte. Er stellte den Betrieb des Unternehmens ein, um den Wald vor weiterer kommerzieller Zerstörung zu schützen.
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China’s largest flood on record 💔 Cities wiped out! The Duliu River in Rongjiang, Guizhou in China just saw its most extreme flood ever, with water surging at 11,400 cubic meters per second and rising a staggering 11 metres above normal levels
#earth #photography #flood #city
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👀 More video of the largest shopping mall in Rongjiang County, Guizhou, China, flooding today 😱
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Hungary banned Pride marches. This is the response ✊🏳️🌈
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World War 3 kinda sucks, but you know, it was either this or pronouns
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I know you can’t stand either one of these clowns, but please sit back and enjoy Tucker Carlson steamroll Ted Cruz over his Iran ignorance. It’s like watching two snakes fight and still rooting for the venom.
Clearly, Tuckums planned this, and Cancun Cruz walked right into his trap.
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Bad bad Emmanuel!
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“If we do not stand up to Peter Thiel, they’re going to come after all of us.”
13 people were arrested protesting Palantir’s surveillance of Americans.
Palantir is profiting off of ICE raids. It’s refining its tracking techniques & gathering data at lightning speed.
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He doesn’t seem to know this though. Maybe somebody needs to explain it to him one more time. In easy words. For Dummies.
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"Let me exercise my role as G7 chair" -- Carney steps in to stop Trump from taking more questions
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PUTIN WAS KICKED OUT OF G8 in 2014 WHEN HE ANNEXED CRIMEA. TRUDEAU WAS ELECTED IN 2015.
THANK YOU FOR THE ATTENTION TO THIS MATTER.
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YouTube video by Charlie Chaplin
Charlie Chaplin - Final Speech from The Great Dictator
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#nokings
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A few hundred Americans of all ages standing in dappled sun with flags and signs
Hello from Berlin where a few hundred Americans are outside the embassy, currently reading aloud from the Declaration of Independence. #nokings
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soooo sneaky
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They Too Are the Earth – Niyi Osundare
They too are the earth The dying distant deaths Women battling centuries Maleficent slavery
My favourite verse in Osundare's poem is the last:
"Are they of this earth
Who fritter the forest
and harry the hills
Are they of this earth
Who live that earth may die
Are they?"
folukeafrica.com/they-too-are...
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He hasn’t posted here in a while but this is @filmthepolicela.bsky.social helping out LAPD with some riot control tonight. Pretty funny.
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