When Galileo made his telescope, the first thing he pointed it at was a faint patch of light which clearly wasn't a planet or a star.
It turned out to be the Beehive Star Cluster. A group of a 1000 stars gravitationally bound together, roughly 550 lightyears from Earth.
#astrophotography #sciart
Yeah, in hindsight we should have kept that stuff we did in the 90s under wraps.
The Christmas Tree Cluster and the Cone Nebula are a bit too small for my scope’s FoV. But here’s my best attempt.
#astrophotography
Be like Spain.
Why on earth would anyone voluntarily remain on that loony asylum after retiring?
If only a certain dozen old men would disappear from this planet, the lives of billions would immediately improve greatly.
Congratulations America on starting yet another world-destabilising war for no reason other than keeping your president out of jail. Pathetic banana republic.
If you know where to look, you can see the M42 Great Orion Nebula with the naked eye. It will look like a tiny smudgy star in the middle of Orion's sword.
I love the dramatic layered strands of bright and dark nebula.
#astrophotography
Breaking: scientists have found the world’s oldest buttcrack to date. 290 million years old!
It’s certainly not the world’s biggest asshole however.
We’ve reached the enshittification stage where all companies have started speedrunning profit maximisation to see how far the madness can be pushed.
Worked for Batman
I’m tired of the AI hypemongering, so I wrote about non-AI technologies that actually push society forward instead.
For everyone with neither talents nor the willpower to learn a skill.
Everything about this timeline is stupid. Are there literally no longer any people with common sense at the wheel anywhere anymore?
Can we just take a moment to celebrate that Sigourney Weaver is now officially in the Star Wars universe? Long overdue!
50k$ is roughly €45k which gets you a basic Volkswagen Golf with virtually no optional extras.
That is actually pretty cheap here in the Netherlands.
We're now living in an age where any "progress" is immediately weaponised.
Can we please go back to trying to cure cancer and stop climate change you fucking fuckwit tech a-holes?
free open source software needs fewer engineers and more designers and product people
I’ve heard several people in tech around me say the same thing: I’m dreaming of getting a patch of land and grow my own food.
So many tech people are getting fatigued with tech right now. It’s exhausting.
Orion always brings out the best galactic spectacles. Hello Alnitak, my bright blue friend. Good to see you and your horse-headed companion again.
#astrophotography #horsehead #nebula #IC434
No it's not a very good one. It's the wrong galaxy.
This is the content I’m here for.
I won’t accept it until it gets K2SO levels of cool and witty.
GenAI is literally not bringing us one single good thing. Yet it seems only a handful of people seem to notice all the bad stuff or care enough to express concern. It’s baffling.
Nope. We don’t want your “American values” here. Bugger off you racist nazis.
China’s flying wind turbines are the most Simon Stålenhag thing I have ever seen.
What? Inside Europe they're also gaining ground fast. It's only the US that is falling behind.
www.carbonbrief.org/analysis-evs...
Sounds like you weren’t around on the internet in the late 90s. It was literally the place where people went to escape the system.
Yes Photoshop 2.5.1 was the first design application I used professionally. What’s a “layer”?
