Brent Ward

Ivan Marchuk - Tenderness, 1984.

Two merging galaxies form an abstract shape, which looks a little like an upside down rubber duck. Within the "head" and "body" of the duck are crossed brown swirls, which are dust and gas. The outside of the duck is outlined with hazy yellow swirls, which are streams of stars. Near the "neck" of the duck, at the point where the two merging galaxies touch, and slightly to the right is a bright white blob, surrounded by pink blobs. This is X-ray light from NuStar, which shows emission from an active supermassive black hole in the right galaxy.

Hubble and NuStar image of Arp 299, also known as NGC 3690.

NuSTAR data overlaid on a Hubble image of the interacting galaxy pair show the galaxy on the right has an active supermassive black hole, glowing brightly in X-rays.

Credit: NASA, JPL-Caltech, GSFC
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A sculpted, layered LP supercell at night. The structure is illuminated by six lightning strikes hitting the ground to the right of the storm. A clear, starry night sky is on the left of the storm. A car's headlights can be seen in the distance.

This image shows a stack of six lightning bolts nearly striking the same spot six time in only one minute of elapsed time! Mother nature really had it out for whoever was down there... #photography

Fluffy Grey with some white, evil looking cat staring intently at me as I ignore her and try to read and article on glacial forebulges.

Not sure “the Beast” thinks the forebuldge is important enough to ignore her! #caturday

Aren’t they cute when they are so unreasonably optimistic!
I’ve seen this story before

Sounds good! I didn’t know it was so rigorous.

Sometimes there's so much beauty in the world,... I feel like I can't take it. And my heart is just going to cave in.

Better drugs?

Why would the reporters actually believe this and write it!

That woolly mammoth looks like it has ringworm and lost a lot of hair. Maybe that's why it went extinct?

Waiting for availability to open up here in British Columbia. I think it starts next week, right after Thanksgiving!

Does she really love it?
I get the same response when I correct some event in some historical drama.

Since I would suspect that things like this are already illegal, will it make a difference?

ANALYSIS | Trump has promised 'eternal peace' in Gaza. But current ceasefire ignores key issues | CBC News The sense of relief sweeping across the Middle East and beyond over the news that a ceasefire in Gaza is finally within sight is palpable. But negotiators have repeatedly stressed that the deal is jus...

I am old enough to remember all the times it was announced there would be "Peace in the Middle East". As this article states, this will be difficult. Let's hope the killing stops. I would like to be optimistic about peace, but with extremists in control on all sides....
www.cbc.ca/news/world/g...

Well statistically, the batter is more likely to hit at least one of those pitches, no?

Stephen Miller is going to lose his mind!

I’ve been there!
Looks like gravity always gets you down!

I will never not repost this

(Sound on for maximum effect)

That's really too bad!

Well it is usually algae, especially Chara, that produce the calcium carbonate bits that form the marl. So the local carbonate probably gave the water a high alkali content. That's my story and I am sticking to it.

Interesting that it is quite common to get marls or diatomites in closed basins on landslides. Saw this on landslides in Peru, and lots of diatomites in the Columbia River Flood Basalts in the channeled Scablands. Sad that I will likely never run that trip again! Was thinking about that yesterday.

Illinois Governor JB Pritzker explains what he believes is Donald Trump's real goal in normalizing a military presence in U.S. cities by dressing ICE and Border Patrol agents in military gear.

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Flowers cover Chile's Atacama Desert in spring.

The Atacama Desert, in northern Chile, is covered in colourful flowers. The phenomenon, known as the 'flowering desert,' occurs in certain years when rainfall and temperatures coincide, awakening the desert's dormant seeds

PAY ATTENTION: ICE is filing fake 911 calls in Chicago, weaponizing emergency services to provoke local police.

Ordinary citizens would be charged with a felony. ICE calls it strategy.

That is amazing. So I am assuming this is a sandstone?

Well there is less syphilis now.....

Whoa! Whoa! Whoa! You are making people work for it? Crazy!

Print with symmetrical circular design in colours of red, blue, black and white, including repeated eye motifs as well as other symbolic forms

'Remembrance' screenprint by Susan Point, contemporary First Nations, Musqueam Coast Salish artist, who works in the Coast Salish tradition #ReframingWomenPrintmakers

Agreed, he is the one pulling most of the dangerous strings.

The curmudgeonliness is strong in him tonight.