Judy Schmidt

stop making me feel bad when I bleach the sinks 🥺

had no idea they were so cute up close... I have tried staring really hard at them with just my eyes but alas, I lack telescopic vision

👋 fellow traveler.

shrug, doesn't make sense to me to fight anyone unless they go Dune style and start seeing each other as resources. always figured people that get sent on these sorts of things are supposed to be even tempered and adaptable, not just... cowboys. or whatever.

I dunno, I figure anyone living on the moon in any proximity to one another is gonna be friends no matter what some stupid Earth government says. I think I'll just leave it up to the Moon People

oh, they wanted it for people. for some reason I was just sitting here thinking it was all just for robots. right, how silly of me

the moon is huge... how is there not enough room for everyone who wants to do ... whatever it is one does on the moon? 🤔

yeah, I wouldn't have thought that, either. just oof

holy crap dude, and no you're not an idiot. taxing money you're trying to recover is stupid

A starry space scene. There are small blue stars scattered randomly but fairly evenly around the image. One bright star dominates the image left of center by several orders of magnitude. It is surrounded by reddish orange shells which visually appear as rings or a very tightly wound spiral. Each shell is almost exactly the same shape as the shell preceding it, resulting in an unusual geometric oddity. The slightly imperfectly circular shapes further lend to the baffling presentation of the image. There are 8 prominent blueish multi-colored diffraction spikes interjecting from the star. They are hard to ignore, but have little meaning beyond indicating that the star was very bright on the detector of the telescope.

Back again with late night astro posting. WR 112 as seen by JWST

From GO 4093: Fingerprinting the history of episodic dust creation in Wolf-Rayet binaries, Principal Investigator Noel Richardson

flic.kr/p/2rkausy

calvin and hobbes gets on a book ban list because calvin's butt is shown at some point and ... god, the only reason we even have vocabulary to describe all the ways everyone is getting laid is because of the activism of the left. the right invented the word "incel" and everything else is left

I'm so confused by the moderation flag in your post. "I was like oh, because there's a painted penis." and then I clicked the moderation info and it said "Does not include nudity."

moderation. good until it's just a distraction

Yeah, I can imagine some kind of adaptive smoothing making it look like the exposure was deeper than it really was... so hard to tell when you've got a heavily processed image from a press release

sometimes my cat fights invisible cats and I wonder if he has schizophrenia, or something like that. we're talking all out murder screams, growling, hissing, tail thrashing. not at anyone or anything in particular. it's hard to record a video of it because when I try he pops back to normal.

sure would be cool if the image in the post was a real place and not some ai slop that i have to waste time on wondering if it's real or fake and taking time out of my day to check it

here I was expecting someone to correct me to "assholes"

then again, the answer is "All of the above, except anarchists"

the a-word they are looking for is "abusers"

I’ve been wondering why don’t they show up in previous observations? the swirl looks totally smooth from ground based infrared data.

A close-up of the center of the Apep star system. The image is grayscale. It's a bit blurry because it's been enlarged digitally. The bright star at the center is overexposed along with small parts of the nebula, but the rest is remarkably detailed. The somewhat circular swirl of a nebula has a bumpy texture. The nebula has a wide, round head, with a tapering tail curled around it. It evokes embryonic imagery, or... perhaps a cat curled around a star.

quick little addition: this is the center brightest shell, just in case you were wondering if it is also textured. it is! it's just hard to see when the dynamic range is shoved all the way up into the brightest parts of the image. (edit: forgot to rotate the image. fixed; deleted old post)

lol, I love that word. so strangely common in astronomy

wasn't that bad, to be honest. I really just yoinked the first slice of the cube out of each exposure and plopped them all down for the center and blended that with the L3 products. it feels bad to hack it together, but also I don't want to spend my whole life on 100 arcseconds of sky

A close-up of the center of the Apep star system. The image is grayscale. It's a bit blurry because it's been enlarged digitally. The bright star at the center is overexposed along with small parts of the nebula, but the rest is remarkably detailed. The somewhat circular swirl of a nebula has a bumpy texture. The nebula has a wide, round head, with a tapering tail curled around it. It evokes embryonic imagery, or... perhaps a cat curled around a star.

quick little addition: this is the center brightest shell, just in case you were wondering if it is also textured. it is! it's just hard to see when the dynamic range is shoved all the way up into the brightest parts of the image. (edit: forgot to rotate the image. fixed; deleted old post)

can confirm, can also confirm it feels nice

I mean, if I was a developer, I'd have that tracked in the cloud or something and put a counter on the wall. "Players have pet cats and dogs 1940299 times."

this is a low resolution image, unfortunately. a png is available at the flickr link, though.

sure

A nebula with a bright star at its center. The nebula has three distinct layers, and the pattern in the layers repeats in a way that implies there are more layers outside the image boundaries, though they would be faint. The shape of the nebula is something like nesting yin yangs, with the center smallest one bright and dense, shining, smooth and golden. The middle one is orange and textured like a sherpa blanket. The largest, outer shell is fainter, and red like an ember. Its texture has softened along with its dissipation into space. There are some small stars speckled around the image, and one annoyingly bright, spiky one that's got too many colors because of the way the light spreads from point sources through the telescope's optics. A pale haze of grayish cloud also covers the scene, but it is sheer and translucent.

Apep. JWST. It's weird. Just look at it.

From GO 5842: What lies beyond the inner spiral of Apep?
Principal Investigator: Yinuo Han

flic.kr/p/2riELBn

Simeon is much nicer than I am about it

yeah, I dunno either. I mean I get that it's everywhere the star was for each separate exposure, and that each one was shifted a bit this way and that way, but I don't get why there's a line connecting them all.

ok, it's not actually *that* saturated, the pipeline i2ds are garbage for some reason

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