Grant Morrison's run with penciller Chas Truog on Animal Man. Covers by Brian Bolland.

Massive 'double detonation' spotted by astronomers for the first time Supernova SNR 0509-67.5 likely exploded twice.

www.popsci.com/science/supe...

Goodnight🌕

Sergio Larrain ~ Chelsea Arts Ball, 1958

ugh

Can't overstate how fucked up it is that unraveling what is arguably the greatest achievement in the history of humanity is now a motivating issue of one of the two dominant parties in the U.S.

Ligotti it ain't.

What ever happened to WordPerfect being the court standard?

Karin Immergut is an ex-AUSA. That’s no guarantee of character, obviously. There are plenty of ex-AUSAs who are hacks, grifters, climbers, and throne-sniffers. Look at Emil Bove. But some of them give a shit about the rule of law and won’t pretend the emperor has clothes./1

It was recorded albeit posted unlisted on yt, see John Towse's reply.

thanks

thank you

Are you aware of public URLs to video or audio records of the livestreaming of the event? I'm searching royalsociety.org, and @royalsociety on youtube but am finding nada.

The illustration shows gravitational waves (GWs) that emanate from colliding black holes. GWs bear clues about these unseen objects.

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On 14 January 2025, the LIGO's detectors captured GW250114, a gravitational wave signal (GWS) caused by two black holes' coalescence, each about 30 times the size of our Sun.

With a signal-to-noise ratio of 80, as opposed to 26 for GW150914...

Image Credits: Maggie Chiang/Simons Foundation

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"A wide-field image of IRAS 16594-4656 taken by the James Webb Space Telescope. The nebula’s bright core is split by a narrow dark band, with expansive rainbow lobes of light and colour radiating outward. Numerous background galaxies and stars are visible across the field." From the press release.

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An interesting study shares JWST breathtaking images of a protoplanetary disk seen edge-on around the protostar IRAS04302+2247, still nestled in its birth cloud.

The young star is located 525 ly away in the Taurus star-forming region.

Image Credit: ESA/Webb, NASA & CSA, M. Villenave et al

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Self-Replication via Lesion-Induced DNA Amplification (LIDA) of DNA Wireframe Nanoassemblies

Self-replication seems like a simple thing with DNA; it regulates self-replication for right about everything we consider "alive" (& some we don't).
But what if we want to make stractures out of it?
We can. Self-replicating DNA-based nanoassemblies are a thing. 🧪
Link: pubs.acs.org/doi/full/10....

I dearly miss Cheez Waffies.

Just my two cents.

I done spent three hours and I ain't got a crumb

A striking image of the plasma jet in the blazar PKS 1424+240, seen head-on. The jet is threaded by a nearly perfect toroidal magnetic field (visualized in orange). Due to special relativity, high-energy gamma rays and neutrinos are strongly beamed toward Earth, even though the jet appears slow-moving from our perspective.

15 years of radio observations yielded this amazing view down the throat of a black hole.

We're looking into a jet of plasma shooting out from a supermassive black hole, called PKS 1424+240. The lines depict intense magnetic fields threaded through the jet. 🧪🔭

www.mpg.de/25171297/eye...

firecracker like jellyfish from Anita Brinckmann-Voss's 1970 book on jellyfish of the Mediterranean Sea.

Wavy tentacles from Anita Brinckmann-Voss's 1970 book on jellyfish of the Mediterranean Sea.

red jellyfish from Anita Brinckmann-Voss's 1970 book on jellyfish of the Mediterranean Sea.

Orange jellyfish from Anita Brinckmann-Voss's 1970 book on jellyfish of the Mediterranean Sea.

The lost jellyfish art of Ilona Richter, from Anita Brinckmann-Voss's 1970 book on jellyfish of the Mediterranean Sea...
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One of the biggest black holes ever was discovered — with a mass of 35 billion suns | CBC News Astronomers have used a new method to weigh the ultramassive black hole. They hope this will help them better understand how to find and measure them in the future.

Very cool news about a newly-measured 'ultramassive' black hole, with some gorgeous gravitational-lensing pics. New mass-measurement method & led by a Brazilian PhD student! 3.5 x 10^10 M_sun, 10^4 x heavier than Sag A*. www.cbc.ca/news/science...

I was adopted via closed adoption, born in North Carolina.

It was closed so I have no knowledge of or access to my biological mother’s details. It also means my biological mother isn’t on my birth certificate.

So if birthright citizenship becomes a patchwork right, what’s someone like me to do?

Cropped black and white publicity still from the film 1984 (1984, Michael Radford director), showing William Hurt as Winston Smith and Suzanna Hamilton as Julia, in profile from the waist up, wearing denim work shirts. Winston Smith is kissing Julia's forehead while Julia has her left palm resting on Winston's right shoulder with her left sleeve rolled up above the elbow. Winston's right eye is closed and Julia has a facial expression that is either unhappy or neutral. There is an out-of-focus tree trunk in a meadow or field behind them.

“On his first call to his son after the detainment, Barranco was less concerned with his injuries and more concerned with his job. He told him where his truck and equipment were and asked him to speak with his client and finish the job, the younger Barranco said.”

Slide from a presentation titled 'Deep Space Dialogues' with a space background showing numerous stars. The topic is 'JWST’s Tiny Red Sources and the Big Questions They Raise' presented by Kevin Hainline.

#NASAWebb has transformed our view of galaxy evolution. On June 26, Dr. Kevin Hainline (University of Arizona) explores Webb's discovery of 'little red dots'—compact, distant sources scattered across the sky that continue to defy easy explanation: youtube.com/live/hQWt3P4... 🔭 🧪

"I'm happy to report I'm just fine. I lost a button. But I'm gonna sleep in my bed tonight, safe, with my family... At that elevator, I was separated from someone named Edgardo... Edgardo is in ICE detention and he's not going to sleep in his bed tonight."

Astronomers studied the four largest moons of Uranus with the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope. At a distance of 3.2 billion kilometres from Earth, the icy satellites Ariel, Umbriel, Titania, and Oberon are tiny points of light. But by using Hubble’s ultraviolet capabilities, astronomers could deduce their surface characteristics.

Beautiful image of Uranus, its rings, and its 4 largest moons--captured by the Hubble telescope.

The way things are going, I doubt I'll see a US mission to Uranus in my lifetime. But with Hubble & JWST, we can keep a close eye on events in the outer solar system. 🧪🔭

www.esa.int/About_Us/Wee...

This Chinese Spacecraft Is Traveling to One of Earth’s Quasi-Moons The Tianwen-2 probe has sent a self-portrait as it heads toward one of the most enigmatic objects in our space neighborhood: the quasi-moon Kamo’oalewa.

The Tianwen-2 probe has sent a self-portrait as it heads toward one of the most enigmatic objects in our space neighborhood: the quasi-moon Kamo’oalewa. www.wired.com/story/chines...

IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA GAVIN NEWSOM, et al., Plaintiffs, Case No. 25-cv-04870-CRB v. DONALD J. TRUMP, et al, ORDER GRANTING PLAINTIFFS' APPLICATION FOR TEMPORARY RESTRAINING ORDER Defendants. On June 6, 2025, the federal government initiated immigration raids across the City of Los Angeles. Protests swiftly followed, and some individuals involved in those protests were unruly and even violent. State and local law enforcement responded. The following day, President Trump ordered that members of the California National Guard be federalized, and thereupon assumed control of those forces. At this early stage of the proceedings, the Court must determine whether the President followed the congressionally mandated procedure for his actions. He did not. His actions were illegal both exceeding the scope of his statutory authority and violating the Tenth Amendment to the United States Constitution. He must therefore return control of the California National Guard to the Governor of the State of California forthwith.

BREAKING: Judge Breyer orders Trump to "return control of the California National Guard" to CA Gov. Newsom, finding that Trump's order taking control was illegal because it did not follow the required procedure.

The order is stayed until noon Friday.

More to come at Law Dork: www.lawdork.com

🌞 See the Sun from a whole new angle.

For the first time, our Solar Orbiter mission has captured close-up images of the Sun’s mysterious poles, regions long hidden from our view.

We need to build some real social stigma around being afraid of cities. You don't have to like them or live there, but a politics built this strongly around watching TV and going "ewww" is embarrassing, and people should be embarrassed by it. It's like "fear of werewolves" being your top issue.