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Just an old technophobic laborer trying to learn how to get past my limitations and hoping to help democracy survive.
Quantum Teleportation Achieved Over the Internet for the First Time β A New Era Begins share.google/m4okpgtccbgS...
28.10.2025 17:47 β π 5 π 1 π¬ 0 π 0The Holy Grail of Physics: Scientists Discover New Path to Room-Temperature Superconductors share.google/uWMrMzrYBD1U...
26.10.2025 18:30 β π 4 π 1 π¬ 0 π 0Alex Ross - Superman convenes the βwar roomβ, in the classic Mark Waid/Alex Ross tale, Kingdom Come (1996).
26.09.2025 21:26 β π 84 π 16 π¬ 0 π 2Bohemian Waxwing (Bombycilla garrulous): The Waxwings that move south from northern Eurasian & N.American forests during the winter frequently appear in towns, cities and urban areas. Cracking photograph taken by Richard Cousens in Yorkshire, UK. #waxwing #waxwings #bird #birds #wildlife #nature
28.09.2025 03:56 β π 380 π 54 π¬ 8 π 4Martin Gregus Jr.
Cinematographer
"One of the most unique sequences I filmed this summer was on a day when three to five bears were play wrestling in the water."
I didn't want to miss getting a nice image of one of my all-time favourite nebulae, the Rosetta nebula, before it was too late in the season and moved into the west. This image combines 15 x 60s exposures in each color channel, using broad-band filters B (blue), G (green) and R (red). I also tried to achieve natural colours (i.e. the colours we would see with our eyes). The data were taken at 10:30pm, Sunday 15 March 2021, from Siding Spring Observatory (near Coonabarabran, NSW, Australia). I used a ZWO ASI1600MM-Pro at -20C with the ZWO 2" BGR filters, my new 7x2" ZWO filter wheel, a Skywatcher Black Diamond 80mm with an Orion x0.8 focal reducer (effective focal length 480 mm, f/6). I used the ZWO ASIAir to control the camera, filter wheel, the mount (Skywatcher AZ-EQ6) and the guiding system (ASI120MM + Orion 50mm finderscope). The data have been processed with SIRIL, then converted into TIF using Fits Liberator using a logarithmic stretch, and finally combined in Photoshop to get the colours and the final details. Darks, flats and biases were used. I usually try to get at least 30-40 frames per filter, but as I said this was a compromise to get a nice colour shot of this nebula before it set, and hence I took 15 exposures per filter, and only 60 seconds each (and the highest gain in the camera, hence the noise that can be seen when zooming in). Otherwise I would have taken ~5 minute exposures with a lower gain and 40 of them. In any case, I hope you li...
A quick view of the Rosetta nebula - From Γngel LΓ³pez-SΓ‘nchez - https://flic.kr/p/2kLxJKy
30.09.2025 14:00 β π 214 π 30 π¬ 0 π 0"She walked like us, but around 3.2 million years ago.
For five years now, a life-sized fleshed-out model of a female Australopithecus aferensis known as "Lucy."
(note: link below goes to Facebook... )
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Clouded Leopard (Neofelis nebulosa): 108cm (43in). This is a medium-sized wild cat occurring from the Himalayan foothills through mainland Southeast Asia into southern China. Total population is suspected to be fewer than 10,000 mature individuals. #cloudedleopard #leopard #wildlife #nature #bluesky
07.10.2025 11:18 β π 281 π 59 π¬ 7 π 4Emerald Dragon, Javier Franco Santacreu
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