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Betelgeuse shining brightly through the dust of the Orion spur

📸 Andrew McCarthy
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Cartoon by
David Horsey

Five galaxies appear close to each other in the sky. At upper left, a spiral galaxy is tilted, appearing wider than it is tall. It has a glowing yellow center and reddish-brown dust trails that spiral clockwise around it. Above the center is a large elliptical galaxy. Its round, glowing yellow center is surrounded by a fuzzy yellow halo that fades away from the core. Toward the bottom right are three galaxies that appear to touch. The largest is in the center: a nearly vertical, edge-on spiral galaxy. Its glowing yellow core is mostly obscured by reddish-brown dust trails dotted with blue stars. To its bottom left is a smaller, tilted spiral galaxy with a glowing yellow center. Reddish-brown dust trails are dotted with blue stars. One spiral arm appears to touch the vertical galaxy to its right. At the spiral’s bottom right is a lenticular galaxy with a glowing central core in the middle of a hazy yellow disk, appearing almost face-on. It seems to touch the large spiral galaxy above it.

Hubble image of Arp 321, also known as Hickson 40.

This group of galaxies include three spiral galaxies, an elliptical galaxy, and a lenticular (lens-like) galaxy.

Credit: NASA, ESA, STScI, A. Pagan
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I thought he gave Argentina 40 billion.

@davewhamond.bsky.social

By David Dorsey of the Seattle Times:

"If Republicans were around in 1776"

A black and white political cartoon shows a grave marked “RIP Democracy 1776 to 2026” with the epitaph “He can’t do that.” An eagle emblem is etched into the headstone. A judge’s gavel lies abandoned on the grave slab. Dry grass surrounds the grave under a dark sky, with smoke curling upward, suggesting the collapse of legal restraint and democratic norms.

The waning hours of Jan 31st

This is how it works

NASA Webb Pushes Boundaries of Observable Universe Closer to Big Bang

NASA Webb Pushes Boundaries of Observable Universe Closer to Big Bang

Take away their qualified immunity and these horrific crimes will likely stop.

Thank you for this.

Such a nice woman

Haha yes it’s going to be a cold weekend here. I’m spending a lot of time in front of the wood stove.

Ohh babe 😍

Good morning…

Spoiler: That's nothing to brag about. Killing innocent civilians is wrong the first time it happens...

It’s in an outside shed and it’s cold here

Frost covered vise

I totally agree with you.

Gorgeous

He should be locked away for life.

Even still, most, if not all of the people I work with don’t believe in climate change. It’s frustrating to be constantly surrounded by these people.

target: MJ0416.1-2403, released: 2026-01-10, processed: C.Blanchard

🔭 JWST Program 6882 - Vast Exploration for Nascent, Unexplored Sources (VENUS): www.stsci.edu/jwst-program...

target: MJ0416.1-2403, released: 2026-01-10
NASA, ESA, CSA, STSci/ #JWST NIRCam 444, 300, 210