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The Moon at waxing crescent phase in a blue sky.

Waxing Crescent Moon. 2103UT 29 June 2025. 🔭 🧪 🎨 #astrophotography #SciArt #photography #StormHour #ThePhotoHour

a nebulous region of the Milky Way, with a blue nebula with a pink core in the bottom left (the Trifid Nebula), a pink region in the top middle (the Lagoon Nebula), which fades into a more yellow/brown region of the Milky Way core in the upper right

Another quick project now that the weather is finally getting better. M8 and M20, the Lagoon and Trifid Nebulae in LRGB. Dark skies and bright objects are basically a cheat code, making targets like this almost easy.
Captured from Starfront Remote with my Cat91 telescope
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Rho Ophiuchi
This region of the summer Milky Way has it all - red emission nebula, blue reflection nebula, dark nebula and a globular cluster. 2 1/2 hours of total integration time. Five minute exposures.
#stars #nebula #astrophotography #milkyway #rhoophiuchi

At least 9 dead as Eastern U.S. endures flooding with snow and frigid temperatures in the forecast Water submerged cars and buildings in Kentucky and mudslides blocked roads in Virginia as heavy rain and dangerous flooding struck the eastern U.S.

Heavy rains and dangerous flooding struck the Southeast U.S. as much of the East endured a renewed round of harsh, soggy weather Saturday. https://cbsn.ws/3CG3d4o

Why isn't this holiday covered under the Anti-American DEI campaign orchestrated by Troomf et al?

Trump Posted 14 Times About His Daytona 500 Trip, Nothing About Multi-State Flooding An indifferent Trump was chauffeured around the racetrack as Kentucky mourned 8 deaths including a mom and her 7 year old child

Trump posted 14 times about his Daytona 500 trip—but not once about the deadly flooding in multiple states.

A collage of five images from the James Webb Space Telescope's NIRCam (Near-Infrared Camera) showcasing a deep field of galaxies. Each inset reveals a variety of galaxy morphologies and colors against the black backdrop of space. The central, largest image features a bright, prominent galaxy with a dense, luminous core and spiral arms faintly visible. Surrounding it are smaller galaxies, some appearing as bright spots, others as elongated discs, and a few with distinct spiral structures. The smaller inset images, two at the top and two at the bottom, echo this diversity, displaying galaxies in various orientations and stages of formation, some appearing as mere smudges of light while others exhibit more defined structures and brighter cores. The overall color palette includes soft whites, blues, oranges, and hints of red, indicating the presence of starlight and dust within these distant galaxies.

Light from the deep universe seeb through the mirrors of NIRCam.
Processed by @landru79
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158: It's a Gas - The History of Chemistry We hear about the history of hydrogen gas as a fuel, starting in the early 1800s with François Isaac de Rivaz. We continue through the 19th and 20th centuries, with dual-burning vehicles, airplanes, a...

Free for all to hear is the latest episode in my podcast series 🧪. I discuss the long history of using hydrogen as a fuel. thehistoryofchemistry.buzzsprout.com/1985736/epis...

Left: One of the 36 ASKAP telescopes in the Western Australian desert, with the novel wide-field Phased Array Feed (PAF) receiver illuminated and the Milky Way galaxy in the background. Right: ASKAP radio continuum image, taken as part of the EMU survey, of the giant X-shaped radio galaxy PKS 1014-55.

Cool science: A giant X-shaped galaxy with a monster black hole as its engine * theconversation.com/experts-solv... (from May 2020) #extragalactic #astronomy #radioastronomy

Image of comet Leslie C. Peltier with the 15-cm refractor in the 1930's, https://www.cloudynights.com/gallery/image/44368-1930s-leslie-peltier-inside-the-cowpasture-observatory-with-the-6-inch-fitz-comet-seeker-visit-leslie-peltiers-100-years-with-the-stars-hosted-by-david-h-levy-jarnacjarnacorg/

#bskycometography no. 92

C/1933 D1 (Peltier)

1933 Feb 16: Discovery by visual star observer and comet hunter L. C. Peltier (USA) visually at 8 mag. The comet was past perihelion (Feb 6 at 1.00 au), passed perigee at 0.56 au on Feb 23, and was last seen on Apr 14.
☄️🔭 #CometWatch

The link to the International Asteroid Warning Network page for 2024 YR4. Median impact probability has stabilized at 2.1% pending follow-up from large-aperture ground and space-based telescopes. The very likely outcome remains a miss in 2032.

#PlanetSci #2024YR4 #K24Y04R

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Trump keeps whining about the U.S.-Canada trade deal and sparked global chaos over it—but what’s rarely mentioned? He’s the one who negotiated it and spent his first term bragging about it.

Glad Trump had the chance to waste millions of taxpayer dollars to fly over the Daytona 500 and then ride The Beast on the track as parts of West Virginia, Virginia, Kentucky, Arkansas, and Tennessee are underwater. Priorities.

Don’t buy stuff on February 28. Money’s the only thing these dicks understand.
#resist

Big words from a 5 X proven coward currently holding 44 felony convictions on top of a rape conviction, will he exile himself to Epstein Island...💩💩💩

LIVE: MeidasTouch RESPONDS to BREAKING NEWS YouTube video by MeidasTouch

Trump quickly loses the AI race as China reemerges as a global leader—then Trump makes it WORSE; Trump's illegal moves at DOJ; Prices skyrocket and MAGA tells Americans its patriotic to pay more; and much more! Watch the MeidasTouch Podcast at 8p ET/5p PT!

I am begging the national media to start taking this seriously.

Stop buying the claims that the framing of "temporary" or "pause."

They are altering the review processes of federally funded scientific research from merit-based peer review processes to political screening by ideologues.

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White House pauses all federal grants, sparking confusion The Trump administration has put a hold on all federal financial grants and loans, affecting tens of billions of dollars in payments.

If this grant "freeze" holds, it is essentially a hostile takeover by Trump of Congress's authority to allocate federal resources.

This single action makes every federal grant subject to individual approval by one of Trump's political appointees.

It's sheer chaos.

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Second Circuit Affirms E Jean Carroll Sexual Abuse Verdict Against Trump Unless the Supreme Court takes the case, Trump will be forced to pay the judgement to Carroll in short order

A federal appeals court upheld a jury verdict finding Donald Trump liable for sexual abuse and defamation against E. Jean Carroll.

Pete Hegseth Attacked News Coverage of Abu Ghraib Torture Prison in 2016 Speech MeidasTouch uncovers second instance of Trump’s Defense nominee complaining about coverage of war crimes and human rights violations

Pete Hegseth Attacked News Coverage of Abu Ghraib Torture Prison in 2016 Speech

MeidasTouch uncovers second instance of Trump’s Defense nominee complaining about coverage of war crimes and human rights violations

More from the Gaetz Report

Ten thousand light years from earth there is massive cloud of alcohol.

To drink all of that, every person on earth would have to drink 300,000 pints each day for one billion years.

Another noteworthy eruption of plasma, this time from well beyond the southwest limb. Add this one to the growing list of eruptions that are directed away from Earth. SolarHam.com

Posting this now for no particular reason.

18 states have banned CRT. These only represent a moving target as there is a myriad of other state jurisdictions looking to end the practice of teaching critical race tenets.

The center of the image contains arcs of orange and pink that form a boat-like shape. One end of these arcs points to the top right of the image, while the other end point toward the bottom left. Another plume of orange and pink expands from the center to the top left of the image. To the right of this plume is a large cluster of white stars. There are various other white stars and a few galaxies of different sizes spread throughout the image. Ten, small, yellow circles overlaid at various points across the image indicate the positions of the ten stars surveyed in this study.

Webb Finds Planet-Forming Disks Lived Longer in Early Universe.
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A side-by-side comparison of a Hubble image of the massive star cluster NGC 346 (left) versus a Webb image of the same cluster (right). The Hubble image shows the cluster in shades of blue against a black background punctuated by white stars of various sizes. Ethereal nebulosity, looking much like draped chiffon, dominates the image. The Webb view, in shades of pink and orange against a black background, is speckled with fewer stars than in the Hubble version. These stars are white and pink. Webb pierces through the cluster’s clouds to reveal more of its structure, which looks like twisted fibers.

NGC 346 side-by-side images: Hubble and Webb.
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The NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has captured a breathtaking image of NGC 1514, a planetary nebula located approximately 2,000 light-years away. The image showcases the nebula's intricate structures and vibrant colors, revealing the remnants of a dying star. NGC 1514's expanding gas clouds and central white dwarf star are beautifully illuminated, offering astronomers valuable insights into the final stages of a star's life cycle.

NGC 1514: the aftermath of a dying star.
Processed by Judy Schmidt.
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