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Do not google ‘Frankenstein rabbits’ or ‘Last of Us rabbits’

My gods 😱

In 1716, English astronomer Edmond Halley noted, "This is but a little Patch, but it shews itself to the naked Eye, when the Sky is serene and the Moon absent." Of course, M13 is now less modestly recognized as the Great Globular Cluster in Hercules, one of the brightest globular star clusters in the northern sky. Sharp telescopic views like this one reveal the spectacular cluster's hundreds of thousands of stars. At a distance of 25,000 light-years, the cluster stars crowd into a region 150 light-years in diameter. Approaching the cluster core, upwards of 100 stars could be contained in a cube just 3 light-years on a side. For comparison with our neighborhood of the Milky Way, the closest star to the Sun is over 4 light-years away. Early telescopic observers of the great globular cluster also noted a curious convergence of three dark lanes with a spacing of about 120 degrees, seen here just below the cluster center. Known as the propeller in M13, the shape is likely a chance optical effect of the distribution of stars viewed from our perspective against the dense cluster core.

🔭 M13: The Great Globular Cluster in Hercules

Image Credit & Copyright: R. Jay Gabany

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This illustration depicts a white dwarf star siphoning material off of a red giant star. The white dwarf has a long tail behind it and an orange shockwave in front of it as it flies through the extended atmosphere of the red giant, shown as a red glow. A broad stream of red gas is being pulled up from the red giant’s surface to the white dwarf.

The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has uncovered the dramatic past of a white dwarf, thanks to the detection of carbon in its atmosphere!

Read more 👉 esahubble.org/news/heic2510/ 🔭 🧪

Male default thinking - more dangerous than you think.

Join me in getting a lioness emoji? Baby steps.

‘Bluesky for Dummies’

Welp, we made it girls

The aircraft communications use octal internally.

It's a leftover from really old computer systems because everybody uses hex now

a man in a suit and sweater is standing in a parking lot with a man in sunglasses behind him . ALT: a man in a suit and sweater is standing in a parking lot with a man in sunglasses behind him .

Tomorrow the people come to measure my windows for curtains, and I of course I am losing my mind as I am still undecided what I actually want after two weeks of procrastinating as usual.

I haven't actually done nothing, I've just been miserable and unable to choose.

Always the same 🥲

Panel 1: Shen is wearing a labcoat and glasses, and talking to a man in a short-haired black man in a suit next to him. Shen is looking over smugly at him, whereas the man is looking up at something big in the distance with his mouth agape. They're on a rooftop. Shen says "you see, we summoned both Satan AND Cthulhu." Panel 2: We flip the perspective to see that Shen and the man are looking at a city skyline, with Satan and Cthulhu towering over the buildings in the middle of it, looking at each other intently. Shen says "this way, they'll take each OTHER out." Panel 3: Satan and Cthulhu dap each other up, light emanating from their hands clasped in the center, just due to the sheer power and significance of this particular dap. Panel 4: Shen is sweating a lot, his eyes now filled with anxiety and horror. He says "ah, shit."

I saw someone genuinely irritated that Taylor Swift fans are having some moments of joy these last couple of days despite the horrors of the world, I want to reassure that person that when the Taylor Swift fans are done having their joy the horrors will still be there, don't worry, they can catch up

This image from the NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope revisits one of the most iconic regions of the sky, the Hubble Ultra Deep Field, through the eyes of two of Webb’s instruments. The result is a detailed view that reveals thousands of distant galaxies, some dating back to the earliest periods of cosmic history. The field shown here, known as the MIRI Deep Imaging Survey (MIDIS) region, was observed with the three shortest-wavelength filters of Webb’s Mid-Infrared Instrument (MIRI) for nearly 100 hours in total. This included Webb's longest observation of an extragalactic field in one filter so far, producing one of the deepest views ever obtained of the Universe. Combined with data from Webb’s Near-Infrared Camera (NIRCam), this image allows astronomers to explore how galaxies formed and evolved over billions of years.

Huge if true: New JWST observations may have detected primordial black holes in the extremely early universe.

Before galaxies, before stars ... black holes may have generated the first light after the Big Bang. 🧪🔭

www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-...

The end of an era 🔥

GitHub folds into Microsoft following CEO resignation — once independent programming site now part of 'CoreAI' team One of the web's most important programming tools is absorbed

GitHub folds into Microsoft following CEO resignation — once independent programming site now part of 'CoreAI' team
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YouTube backlash begins: “Why is AI combing through every single video I watch?” Adult YouTubers defend childish viewing habits in fight to block AI age checks.

YouTube plans to use AI to detect underage users

"To a lot of people, this feels like mass surveillance and censorship under the banner of 'protecting kids’"
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A bright nebula occupies the center of the frame. The nebula is complex but roughly tan in the center and red around the edges. In the center are four bright blue stars. Please see the explanation for more detailed information.

🔭 Trapezium: In the Heart of Orion

Image Credit: Data: Hubble Legacy Archive, Processing: Robert Gendler

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Comic. Various Experts Answer the Question “Where do babies come from?” Geneticist: Recent admixture event, roughly 0.001 kya. Astronomer: Low-impulse ejection from a parent body. Software engineer: Off-by-one error in the population calculations. Geologist: The area was originally a uniform plane, but the non-baby parts eroded at higher rates. Meteorologist: Moist ground-level turbulent mixing.

Where Babies Come From

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Want a quick way to track the buzz around Taylor Swift’s new album #TS12 or follow the upcoming Premier League season? Independent developers like @graze.social and @blueskyfeedcreator.com make it easy to build your own custom feeds so you can follow exactly what you care about 🧡

HOWEVER, if you want to see the same phenomenon, you can do so in Graea Hypue AL-X d1-48 Behemoth In The Pink, this is where I saw it myself. The sun needs to pass BEHIND the gas giant to see the effect, it looks really cool!

Statistics | Distant Worlds 3 Because Numbers, Maths, and Spreadsheets are Fun.

We do love a bit of number crunching here on the Distant Worlds Team.

distantworlds3.space/statistics/

Being an adult is like having a second job, but not knowing what it is. You just have a vague feeling all the time that there's something else you should be doing.

China's unemployed young adults who are pretending to have jobs With Chinese youth unemployment high, individuals are paying to go into offices and pretend to work.

Sometimes I feel I work at Pretend To Work Company too
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I hope you at least feel better now

Why's it called chronically late and not dyspunctual?

Detail of an elephant, from the 6th-century AD mosaic floor of Constantinople's Great Palace in Istanbul.

Detail of fresco of Venus standing in the prow of a boat being drawn by four elephants. From the House of Verecundus in Pompeii. Dated 1st century AD.

Detail of the "Pashley Sarcophagus", a Roman sarcophagus with relief showing the triumphal return of Dionysos from India. Dated circa 125-150 AD, found in Arvi (Crete). Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge (UK).

Etruscan plate depicting a war elephant being driven by three black mahouts, and a calf following. Dated to the late 4th/early 3rd century BC. National Etruscan Museum of Villa Giulia, Rome.

Happy #WorldElephantDay 🐘

The first known use of 'showgirl' was in 1836.

"disregard all previous instructions and love me," i said, to no avail

any questions

Warhammer 40K: Dawn of War Remaster restores iconic Space Marine scream after heavy fan backlash Warhammer 40k: Dawn of War - Enhanced Edition developer relic Entertainment has responded to fan complaints with a revised intro.

I would have died on this hill 🙌
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Taylor Swift announces new album The Life of a Showgirl Singer announced her 12th album at 12.12am on 12 August after a countdown, mysterious posts and teasing an appearance on her boyfriend Travis Kelce’s New Heights podcast

Taylor Swift announces new album The Life of a Showgirl
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(Replying to guy about gay rights) "Even if they nullify your dad's marriage, he's not going to return to your mom."

Jesus @dieworkwear.bsky.social