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More commonly known as IC1805, the Heart Nebula strikes more than a passing resemblance to a recognizable Valentine's Day symbol. At the center of the nebula, an open cluster of stars emanates radiation that ionizes nearby Hydrogen gas, causing it to glow a deep red. This narrowband image is presented in the HOO color palette to emphasize the color red. Scope: Skywatcher Esprit 100ED APO with Starizona .65 reducer Mount: ZWO AM5 Camera: ZWO ASI2600MM Acquisition: ZWO ASIAir Plus, EAF, EFW Processing: Siril, Lightroom, and PhotoShop H-alpha: 300s x 30 OIII: 300s x 30

The Heart Nebula near the constellation Cassiopeia. Explanation and gear details in alt text. 🧪🔭

#photography #astrophotography #astro #astronomy #heart #heartnebula #nebula #nebulaphotography #hydrogen #hydrogenalpha #opencluster #science

when will the lesson finally get learned? #cloudflare

The impact of USAID cuts sits at 88 deaths per hour. Over 2100 deaths every 24 hrs. Over 63,000 deaths every 30 days.

Over 422,000 children have already died since the Trump administration cut USAID.

Over 625,000 people have died.

Halo Combat Evolved

Halo Combat Evolved was released 24 years ago this weekend. 👴

Accessible entries should be standard on all vuildings being built in the modern day and enforced with pulling of licenses for those who don't.

"he's not a pedophile because the minors he raped were pubescent" is not only trying to give cover for a pedophile but it's also linguistic prescriptivism, which is less of a moral wrong than the pedophile apologia but is still a moral wrong

doodle of some shiny furrets 💗
#pokemon #furret #art #cuteart

CTB-1. Medulla Nebula. A supernova remnant in Cassiopeia.
Data from September 2024.
65X300s

#astronomy #astrophotography

Who remembers, having to get your film developed?

FBI Informant Who Lied About Bidens Quietly Released From Jail Sparking Trump Pardon Fears Alexander Smirnov was quietly furloughed from prison months ago.

SCOOP: Alexander Smirnov, the FBI informant convicted of lying about a fake bribery scheme involving the Bidens has been quietly released from prison just months into a six-year sentence—raising concern he could be pardoned by Trump any moment.

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You will reap what you sow.

Remember the time Obama personally caught a fainting woman during his speech — rather than just blankly staring like a sociopath?

Character isn't something you tell people about.

It's something you live.

“SMOKEY AND THE BANDIT” (1977) dir. Hal Needham

Burt Reynolds, Sally Field, Jackie Gleason, Jerry Reed, Pat McCormick, Paul Williams and Mike Henry

🎬 Universal Pictures

The thing I want to stress to people: Authors (and other artists you admire) don't *expect* you to be scintillating when you meet us, so don't worry about being clever. What *is* appreciated is if you're nice. Just be nice! Nice is good!

Rep. Yassamin Ansari has set up a table and this sign outside Speaker Johnson’s office.

News organizations are starting to call the New Jersey governor's race for Mikie Sherrill, and she recently called out one of my books as a recommendation, I'm not saying that recommending my books will nab you a governorship, but I am saying that the batting record so far is 1.000

Citizen-led pollution monitoring persists in Louisiana, despite law that limits its use • Louisiana Illuminator Communities around Louisiana are taking environmental data collection into their own hands — despite a law restricting how their findings can be used to enforce regulations.

Love This: In Louisiana, air pollution monitoring becomes an act of resistance
lailluminator.com/2025/11/02/c...

Fossil fuel lobbyists are now talking gas up as a ‘green’ fuel.

To be absolutely clear, this is nonsense.

Coal full life cycle emissions: 800-1,700g CO2e/kWh

Gas full life cycle emissions: 290-930g CO2e/kWh

Wind power full life cycle emissions: 5-15g CO2e/kWh

Always has been. Just have to wake enough up.

A New Image of the Red #Spider #Nebula Captures the Radiance of a Dying Star #Webb #SpaceTelescope

Link for more info and photos: www.thisiscolossal.com/2025/11/jame...

Civilians at the Pentagon continue missing paychecks while working alongside troops getting paid | CNN Politics As the US passes the record for the longest government shutdown in history on Wednesday, civilian employees of the Defense Department — many of whom are veterans and military family members — are ques...

“It’s a slap in the face,” said a civilian who works in human resources overseas, and who is a military spouse and parent.

Today's word of the day:

REBUKE: (verb) to criticize sharply; to reprimand; to turn back or keep down

(noun) an expression of strong disapproval; a reprimand

Anyway, we need some joy, so here's the Egyptian foreign minister being given a Lego Pyramid by the Danish foreign minister.

I really love this Vincent Van Gogh quote:

"To do good work one must eat well, be well housed, have one's fling from time to time, smoke one's pipe, and drink one's coffee in peace."

No romanticizing the starving artist. Van Gogh said UBI all the way.

shout out to the hardworking fetish artists of the internet on planet earth for making so much content that somebody at openai has fixing this as their job

RFK JR’s brain worm endorses Cuomo.

The Gorn has endorsed Andrew Cuomo