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Rachel Gilmore @rachelgilmore.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Carney's first-ever project designated as being in the “national interest" is...a crude oil pipeline. That means the oil pipeline can bulldoze past environmental laws, impact assessments, and Indigenous consultation. It can also kill all of Vancouver's orcas. Here's what you need to know:
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Rachel Gilmore @rachelgilmore.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Today is the National Day for Truth and Reconciliation, and Canada has a lot of work to do. In some ways, we’re actually backsliding right now -- from residential school denial to rights-busting "national building projects." We gotta do a better job of defending and respecting Indigenous rights:
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Bando @bandobear.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
A lot of you furries stopped growing up after high school
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Rachel Gilmore @rachelgilmore.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Disgusting, desperate behaviour from Bradford here. Please share and support the incredible folks at the National Observer!
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Rachel Gilmore @rachelgilmore.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
“And that, my friends, is the new climate denialism to a tee, with an Orwellian spin on ‘sustainability’ and utter defeatism with respect to how to jointly tackle the affordability and climate crises.”
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Frozen Ocelot @frozenocelot.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Once again a reminder. Don't give them a damn thing and CANCEL YOUR NITRO!
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Hourly Cosmos @hourlycosmos.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Humason 2-1 - From Judy Schmidt (geckzilla.bsky.social) - flic.kr/p/p7MZok
One of the three planetary nebulas discovered by M. L. Humason during his time at the Mount Wilson Observatory. Any aspiring astronomer should read that short Wiki article at the link.

Here, the swirling, vaguely symmetrical nebula is seen in detail with two narrowband filters (F658N & F656N). The broad, blueish dots arranged in the X shape are simply diffuse diffraction spikes and are not part of the nebula itself. The central star is just discernible.

The image has been enlarged 200% from its original size.

These data were collected for Proposal 6347, A Search for Jets in Planetary Nebulae

Red: hst_06347_08_wfpc2_f658n_pc_drz
Green: Pseudo
Blue: hst_06347_09_wfpc2_f656n_pc_drz

North is up.
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Hourly Cosmos @hourlycosmos.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
The Lagoon Nebula in Infrared light - From Rolf Wahl Olsen - flic.kr/p/egmQmU
This infrared image of the Lagoon nebula contrasts heavily with traditional images taken in visible light. Such images primarily display the striking magenta colour from glowing Hydrogen gas, as well as large dark obscuring clouds of dust.

The infrared part of the spectrum penetrates these clouds better and reveals complex details and thousands of young stars that are otherwise completely invisible. These stars shine primarily in the infrared and appear as golden red in this image. Only a minority of these are visible in traditional optical images. 

To create this image I used a special infrared filter. Effectively the band observed is 700-1100nm since the sillicon CCD chip is not responsive to wavelengths longer than that, and this band is called NIR (Near Infrared). One issue arising from this technique is that the NIR band does not have a colour as such, since it lies outside the visible light spectrum. 
To create a colour image from the NIR data I have developed a colour stacking technique which has produced promising results so far. 
I use the NIR filter together with G and B filters to create a colour composite. The resulting images are assigned to the different channels as NIR->Luminance, NIR->Red, G->Green and B->Blue. 

Substituting the R channel with NIR nicely brings out the contrast between the nebula itself and all the young obscured stars that shine primarily in infrared. This colour image is then overlaid with the NIR frame used as luminousity....
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Rachel Gilmore @rachelgilmore.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
A LOT has happened this week and we NEED to discuss it. I’ll be live until 9pmET talking politics and answering some of your Qs!! Come hang!! TWITCH: twitch.tv/rachel_gilmore YOUTUBE: youtube.com/@AtRachelGil... TIKTOK: www.tiktok.com/@rachel_gilm... INSTAGRAM: www.instagram.com/r.gilmore?ig...
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Emmett Macfarlane 🇨🇦 @emmettmacfarlane.com · 22/09/2026
Funny, because the Truckers got three weeks to hang out before police lifted a finger. Interesting.
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Rachel Gilmore @rachelgilmore.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
The audacity to scoff at this question when a journalist on the hill just affirmed they were given access to this MORE THAN 200 PAGE bill less than 30 MINUTES before this press conference. How the fuck do you ask informed questions under those conditions? Spoiler: you can't.
Emilie Bergeron writes in french: "Les journalistes sur la colline, dont moi, ont reçu un projet de loi de plus de 200 pages moins de 30 min avant que les ministres répondent à des questions à ce sujet et en plein milieu d'un breffage avec des hauts fonctionnaires. un projet de loi dont l'intérêt public est majeur"
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Duck AI Slop!! @duckaislop.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Update, ai powered companions info and more screenshots aniimo.com/newslist/det... aniimo-game.wiki/systems/ai/ www.reddit.com/r/Aniimo/com...
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A New Way to Connect with Your Aniimo
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Hourly Cosmos @hourlycosmos.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Mars - Frosty Olympus Mons - ESA Mars Express - From Andrea Luck (andrealuck.bsky.social) - flic.kr/p/2pWEwKw
Full size image 3243x3243: www.flickr.com/photos/192271236@N03/53783506692/sizes/o/ 
See license below.
Credits:
Image Processing: AndreaLuck CC BY
Raw Data: ESA/DLR/FUBerlin

Image created processing data from: psa.esa.int/

Mission: ESA Mars Express
Instrument: HRSC
Orbit: 23889
Time: 2022-11-30T12:15:04.924Z
North Approx on the left
Product IDs:
HN889_0000_ND3.IMG
HN889_0000_GR3.IMG Partially Reconstructed
HN889_0000_BL3.IMG
More info of the frost detection on the Olympus Mons Caldera: www.nature.com/articles/s41561-024-01457-7

Credits:
Image Processing: AndreaLuck CC BY
Raw Data: ESA/DLR/FUBerlin

Feel free to share, giving the appropriate credit and providing a link to the original image or tweet: creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/
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Hourly Cosmos @hourlycosmos.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Jupiter 's Circumpolar Cyclones - Northern Hemisphere - Nasa's Juno PJ46 - From Andrea Luck (andrealuck.bsky.social) - flic.kr/p/2nYqZ1M
Orbit (Perijove) 46
NASA's Juno
PJ46 Northern Circumpolar Cyclones
Altitude: 19143  km
Time: 2022-06-11

Credit:
©Nasa/JPL-Caltech/SwRI/MSSS/AndreaLuck

Image created using data processed from Nasa's Juno: www.missionjuno.swri.edu/junocam/processing?id=14319

Product ID:
JNCE_2022310_46C00089_V01

©Nasa/JPL-Caltech/SwRI/MSSS/AndreaLuck

Feel free to share, giving the appropriate credit and providing a link to the original image or tweet: creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/
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Hourly Cosmos @hourlycosmos.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Hubble Sees Galaxies Spiraling around Leo - From Goddard Space Flight Center - flic.kr/p/nbxsKE
Shown here is a spiral galaxy known as NGC 3455, which lies some 65 million light-years away from us in the constellation of Leo (the Lion).

Galaxies are classified into different types according to their structure and appearance. This classification system is known as the Hubble Sequence, named after its creator Edwin Hubble.
In this image released 14, April, 2014, NGC 3455 is known as a type SB galaxy — a barred spiral. Barred spiral galaxies account for approximately two thirds of all spirals. Galaxies of this type appear to have a bar of stars slicing through the bulge of stars at their center. The SB classification is further sub-divided by the appearance of a galaxy's pinwheeling spiral arms; SBa types have more tightly wound arms, whereas SBc types have looser ones. SBb types, such as NGC 3455, lie in between.

NGC 3455 is part of a pair of galaxies — its partner, NGC 3454, lies out of frame. This cosmic duo belong to a group known as the NGC 3370 group, which is in turn one of the Leo II groups, a large collection of galaxies scattered some 30 million light-years to the right of the Virgo cluster.

This image is from Hubble's Advanced Camera for Surveys.

Credit:  ESA/Hubble & NASA, Acknowledgement: Nick Rose

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Hourly Cosmos @hourlycosmos.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
N132D X-Ray and Optical Composite - From Judy Schmidt (geckzilla.bsky.social) - flic.kr/p/nPcFtT
This is a composite of 7 channels of data. From Hubble, we've got wideband blue, mediumband green, and H-alpha, and wideband near-infrared data. From Chandra, we've got low, intermediate, and high energy x-rays.

These Hubble data are, in my opinion, some of the most difficult in the archive to process because the object is within such a densely packed region of the Large Magellanic Cloud. I've processed them once before with interesting results but I wanted to try again to see if I could get it a bit more natural and I also wanted to take the opportunity to include x-ray data available via openFITS.

The colors undoubtedly look very fantastical and unrealistic to you so I will create a metaphor to help you pretend it is actually realistic. If you were a being capable of seeing in x-rays, you might have a different eye on your head for this purpose rather than a single one. If this x-ray eye could see in color, then the x-rays would be just as colorful as the visible light your familiar set of eyes can see. So imagine you are a cool alien with this extra eye in addition to your two normal eyes and what you see might look something like this.

In fact, you could take color x-rays of your own flesh and bones if it were acceptable and useful to bombard your body with three times as much energy as a black and white x-ray requires and then you would be very familiar with color x-rays. It would be more fun to go to the dentist. Anyway...

The dull, reddish haze comprising the ou...
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Hourly Cosmos @hourlycosmos.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Jupiter 30th June 1979 (Voyager 2) - From Ian Regan - flic.kr/p/975fV5
Voyager 2 narrow angle view, taken on 30th of June, 1979.
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Rachel Gilmore @rachelgilmore.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Cool, another big pro-corporate, anti-worker move from our Conservative prime minister! I am becoming The Joker Source: www.ctvnews.ca/politics/art...
CTV News article text reads: The sources tell CTV News the gover ment has conveyed to them that the legislation will be aimed at introducing binding mediation before strike action is taken. Industry's message to the government was that its traditional tool to use for binding arbitration, Section 107 of the Canadian Labour Code, can only be applied too late in the labour dispute process and from its perspective, does not adequately prevent the damage caused from a work stoppage.
Several union sources CTV News spoke with are on red alert over the possibility of this legislation and contend it will strip workers of their right to strike. Unifor National President Lana Payne expressed worry on Friday in an interview on The Graham Richardson Show on HeartRadio.
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💫Sablekyu💫 @sablekyu.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
With the announcement of yet another Aniimo closed beta, I feel the need to make this post. Do not support this game. I was part of the Creator Club for Aniimo's 2nd Closed Beta test. Despite the team's claims, there is Generative AI throughout the game and in promotional material. (1/2) #aniimo
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S ∆ R E N ✦ 杰敏 ✦ KICKSTARTER on OCT 5th!!! @sarenstone.com · 14/09/2026
Watched this for a second time today and really can't recommend this video enough. If you make it to the end, it's really worth it.
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Hourly Cosmos @hourlycosmos.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Tumultuous Clouds of Jupiter - From NASA Marshall Space Flight Center - flic.kr/p/2gj3QP4
This stunning compilation image of Jupiter’s stormy northern hemisphere was captured by NASA’s Juno spacecraft as it performed a close pass of the gas giant planet. Some bright-white clouds can be seen popping up to high altitudes on the right side of Jupiter’s disk. (The Juno team frequently refers to clouds like these as  “pop-up” clouds in image captions.)

Juno took the four images used to produce this color-enhanced view on May 29, 2019, between 12:52 a.m. PDT (3:52 a.m. EDT) and 1:03 a.m. PDT (4:03 a.m. EDT), as the spacecraft performed its 20th science pass of Jupiter. At the time the images were taken, the spacecraft was between 11,600 miles (18,600 kilometers) and 5,400 miles (8,600 kilometers) above Jupiter's cloud tops, above a northern latitude spanning from about 59 to 34 degrees.

Image Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/SwRI/MSSS/Kevin M. Gill

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Hourly Cosmos @hourlycosmos.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
1++ - From Jacint Roger (landru79.bsky.social) - flic.kr/p/2iJYThM
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jenny tightpants @jtp.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
welcome to 2020s tech. we got - pervert glasses - wiretap - wiretap - wiretap - wiretap - the button that does nothing - we outta ram - we outta hard drives - we outta graphics cards - ten trillion vibe coded apps that nobody uses - wiretap
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The Serfs (youtube.com/theserfstv) @theserfstv.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
He's doing racist revisionist history of a white supremacist who starved Indigenous children to death. Even by the standards of the time John A Macdonald shocked parliament by openly stating the "superiority of the aryan race" and that Indigenous and Asian people were a "different species"
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toonholechris @toonholechris.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Magic trick
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𝔢𝔪𝔬𝔯𝔲𝔦 @emorui.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Please please please do this. Only 1663 alegations of thousands of people who are against AI, we NEED to push back
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Hourly Cosmos @hourlycosmos.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
NGC 1566 - From Judy Schmidt (geckzilla.bsky.social) - flic.kr/p/2o2hBzW
NASA / ESA / CSA / Judy Schmidt

The latest view of another dusty spiral galaxy from JWST's MIRI. Took a bit of doing this time because the pipeline images available from the archive had a lot of alignment issues. I had to manually mosaic this. Luckily it wasn't too difficult, or at least my human brain handled it fine. Not sure what is so confounding to a computer brain.

Red (screen layer mode): MIRI F2100W 
Orange: MIRI F1130W
Cyan: MIRI F770W

Extra overall brightness in grayscale: MIRI F1000W

North is 1.5° counter-clockwise from up.
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Hourly Cosmos @hourlycosmos.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
a +fff++final - From Jacint Roger (landru79.bsky.social) - flic.kr/p/2iK1sfj
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Hourly Cosmos @hourlycosmos.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Grove - From Bill (ridingrobots.bsky.social) - flic.kr/p/2rXMATb
Uintah Mountains, Utah
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spookyraptor 🎃 ➤ wishlist Hypnagogia 壊れた夢 @sodaraptor.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
This AI trash pile is out now btw. For those unaware, this "developer" wholesale ripped and reskinned Cyreide's game Zera: Myths Awakened and are now profiting off it on Steam. Since the store page is sadly still up, please leave a negative review and help shun this slop back to the nether.
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kelly knowles art @kellyknowles.art · 05/09/2026
render ➡️ final
sloppy 3D render of a kid playing a video game in front of a big old TV. the scene is split into slices where the furniture turns into video game environment set pieces of various themes, and there's tons of little guys and items all over the place.final drawing/painting over the render which adds a ton of details. maybe too many!
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Hourly Cosmos @hourlycosmos.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Jupiter in Near-Infrared - From Judy Schmidt (geckzilla.bsky.social) - flic.kr/p/FEZA33
2018 May 06: Note that the blue channel contains data collected through a red filter, not a near-infrared one. Apologies for not mentioning that in my original description.

Why do Jupiter's poles glow brightly in infrared? I can't honestly say I know why, but I like the way it is completely opposite from visible light. In visible light, the poles are darker, and the middle latitudes near the limb practically glow in blue light. The Great Red Spot is also visible as a large, salmon hued spot in this image. Jupiter is interestingly contrasty in the near-infrared FQ889N filter, which is one of the methane bands.

These data were collected by Hubble to assist in providing context for Juno data, which are so close up to the planet that the field of view relatively small, and it can be helpful to see what is going on with the rest of the planet at the same time. A variety of data were collected for this purpose, including visible, near-uv, and near-infrared.Knowing this, one begins to gain an understanding of how having robust and overlapping datasets from various observatories and probes working in tandem can greatly augment scientific research. Juno or Hubble data alone would be much less valuable. In short, it takes a village.

I thought I would get Europa in this image, but then I found out that moon was hiding in Jupiter's shadow. Io was hanging out in the corner way out of the way, and two fainter moons could also be seen. Io was saturated anyway, and the faint moons were...
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Zant Balisong @phlashdark.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
If you're not going to look for/use alternatives to Discord, you should at least cancel Nitro. Please just do the bare minimum at the very least. A lot of people put way too much confidence in others doing the hard part for the sake of not giving up some minor convenience. Now's not the time.
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Hazy/Dusk🌻🍉 @duskvortex.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
hey EU friends, there's a European Citizen's Initiative from stop killing the internet to demand no digital ID and age verification to use the internet. please sign this if you can and spread the word! this needs to go viral! citizens-initiative.europa.eu/initiatives/...
citizens-initiative.europa.eu
Initiative detail | European Citizens' Initiative
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Tuta @tuta.com · 31/08/2026
If you have a Gmail account, you need to read this. Google's AI now scans your emails and attachments, bank statements, tax files, medical letters, all of it. It turned on by default, and there's a class-action lawsuit over how. Here are 5 moves to shut it off, the switch is hidden in two places:
Image of Sundar Pichai and the Gmail logo
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Hourly Cosmos @hourlycosmos.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Hubble's Wide View of 'Mystic Mountain' in Infrared - From Goddard Space Flight Center - flic.kr/p/7VDifk
NASA image release April 22, 2010

This is a NASA Hubble Space Telescope near-infrared-light image of a three-light-year-tall pillar of gas and dust that is being eaten away by the brilliant light from nearby stars in the tempestuous stellar nursery called the Carina Nebula, located 7,500 light-years away in the southern constellation Carina. The image marks the 20th anniversary of Hubble's launch and deployment into an orbit around Earth.
The image reveals a plethora of stars behind the gaseous veil of the nebula's wall of hydrogen, laced with dust. The foreground pillar becomes semi-transparent because infrared light from background stars penetrates through much of the dust. A few stars inside the pillar also become visible. The false colors are assigned to three different infrared wavelength ranges.
Hubble's Wide Field Camera 3 observed the pillar in February and March 2010.
Object Names: HH 901, HH 902
Image Type: Astronomical

Credit: NASA, ESA, and M. Livio and the Hubble 20th Anniversary Team (STScI)

To read learn more about this image go to:  www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/hubble/science/hubble20th-img....

NASA Goddard Space Flight Center  is home to the nation's largest organization of combined scientists, engineers and technologists that build spacecraft, instruments and new technology to study the Earth, the sun, our solar system, and the universe.
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Hourly Cosmos @hourlycosmos.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Total Solar Eclipse • Aug. 21, 2017 - From Jason Major (jpmajor.bsky.social) - flic.kr/p/XX3y8D
Fort Johnson
Charleston, South Carolina
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Hourly Cosmos @hourlycosmos.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
Hubble Sees a "Mess of Stars" - From Goddard Space Flight Center - flic.kr/p/wp3Eno
Bursts of pink and red, dark lanes of mottled cosmic dust, and a bright scattering of stars — this NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image shows part of a messy barred spiral galaxy known as NGC 428. It lies approximately 48 million light-years away from Earth in the constellation of Cetus (The Sea Monster).

Although a spiral shape is still just about visible in this close-up shot, overall NGC 428’s spiral structure appears to be quite distorted and warped, thought to be a result of a collision between two galaxies. There also appears to be a substantial amount of star formation occurring within NGC 428 — another telltale sign of a merger. When galaxies collide their clouds of gas can merge, creating intense shocks and hot pockets of gas, and often triggering new waves of star formation.

NGC 428 was discovered by William Herschel in December 1786. More recently a type of supernova designated SN2013ct was discovered within the galaxy by Stuart Parker of the BOSS (Backyard Observatory Supernova Search) project in Australia and New Zealand, although it is unfortunately not visible in this image.

This image was captured by Hubble’s Advanced Camera for Surveys (ACS) and Wide Field and Planetary Camera 2 (WFPC2).  

Image credit: ESA/Hubble and NASA and S. Smartt (Queen's University Belfast), Acknowledgements: Nick Rose and Flickr user pennine cloud

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Hourly Cosmos @hourlycosmos.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
Solar eclipse as seen from Moon orbit - 2 July 2019 - From Thomas Appéré (thomasappere.bsky.social) - flic.kr/p/2grbMju
Solar eclipse of 2 July 2019 imaged by Longjiang-2 chinese spacecraft in lunar orbit.
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Hourly Cosmos @hourlycosmos.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
Earth - Apollo 11 - 1969-07-24 - From Aster Cowart (terrasabaea.bsky.social) - flic.kr/p/2gAg7Yh
Earth from Apollo 11, taken from an altitude of approximately 8,000 km. This scene was taken roughly one hour before reentry (June 24, 1969) as the crew passed over the Indian Ocean en route to splashdown in the central Pacific.

This image is a mosaic of three photos taken with the 80 mm Hasselblad lens, with a small hole along the horizon patched with a photo taken roughly one hour earlier. Credit: NASA / Apollo 11 Crew / Project Apollo Archive / Justin Cowart
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Hourly Cosmos @hourlycosmos.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
Behold the Northern Lights - From NASA Marshall Space Flight Center - flic.kr/p/26wDexq
Our Sun provides the light and heat that energizes our plants, our solar panels and our weather, among other things. But its influence stretches over the horizon into our nights, as well. As our nearest star, the Sun bathes Earth in a steady stream of energetic particles, magnetic fields and radiation that can stimulate our atmosphere and light up the night sky, like the aurora borealis, or northern lights.

At 3:46 a.m. Eastern Tme on April 21, 2018, the Visible Infrared Imaging Radiometer Suite (VIIRS) on the Suomi NPP satellite acquired this image of the aurora borealis over North America. The nighttime image was made possible through VIIRS "day-night band," which detects light in a range of wavelengths from green to near-infrared and uses filtering techniques to observe signals such as airglow, auroras, wildfires, city lights, and reflected moonlight.

In this image, the sensor detected the visible light emissions that occurred as energetic particles from Earths magnetosphere rained down into the oxygen and nitrogen gases of the upper atmosphere. Around April 19, the Sun spewed a potent stream of particles and electromagnetic energy—a strong blast of solar wind—that arrived at Earth a few days later and stirred up our magnetic field. The interaction between these solar emissions and our magnetic field causes the particles already trapped around the planet to be accelerated down toward the atmosphere. The collisions make the auroral light.

Image credit: NASA/...
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Christy Somos @christysomos.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
It’s now been well over 24 hours and no one from CTV has replied about this matter
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Hourly Cosmos @hourlycosmos.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
Jupiter - PJ5-110 - From Kevin M. Gill (kevinmgill.bsky.social) - flic.kr/p/28SfEJj
JNCE_2017086_05C00110_V01

NASA/JPL-Caltech/SwRI/MSSS/Kevin M. Gill
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Hourly Cosmos @hourlycosmos.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
Solar Streamers - From Jason Major (jpmajor.bsky.social) - flic.kr/p/8hLdRs
Detail from SDO images taken July 9, 2010. Cropped and adjusted to bring out detail, this is a composite of AIA 171 and 304 images, which combined show coronal magnetic line activity as well as photospheric surface detail.

Image credit: SDO (NASA) and the AIA consortium.
(Edited by J. Major.)

More information on the SDO site: sdo.gsfc.nasa.gov/.
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Stellbound: Stellraiser II @antlervel.vet · 11/08/2026
I didn’t even see this had been announced. I was lead writer on this one! And Saber replaced me with ChatGPT midway through development. All the passenger voices were AI too. Either they changed direction at some point or they’re not disclosing it on Steam
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Rideshare "Stimulator" - Announce Trailer | PS5 Games
YouTube video by PlayStation
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Zaggy Norse @onlyflares.com · 10/08/2026
Let people be bad at their hobbies. Not everyone is doing things to get consistently better at them. And that's perfectly fine. Telling someone "you're doing that wrong" or "no you should do it like X to learn" when the thing they're doing is just for fun, is abrasive and unwanted. Let them be.
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mankrik's wife guy @byelacey.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
yearning is a science 🌌
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Hourly Cosmos @hourlycosmos.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
NGC 5972 - From Judy Schmidt (geckzilla.bsky.social) - flic.kr/p/jTFaCU
I can't explain this because it's too weird. I saw the image processed at this article and decided I wanted to try processing away some of those cosmic rays. Anyway, read that blog entry if you want to know more about it.

I spread the filters across the channels slightly to give it a more balanced look but [O III] is still represented by blue and Halpha is red.

The data is pretty noisy because it's all medium and narrowband imagery. Can't really be helped. Well, not without a bunch more orbits.

Giant Ionized Clouds Around Local AGN - Obscuration and History (HST Proposal 12525)

Red: WFC3/UVIS F763M + WFC3/UVIS F673N + WFC3/UVIS F621M
Green: WFC3/UVIS F621M + ACS/WFC F505N
Blue: ACS/WFC F505N

North is NOT up. I'm not actually sure which way is up. Sorry about that.
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Hourly Cosmos @hourlycosmos.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
Sun - April 20 2024 - From Kevin M. Gill (kevinmgill.bsky.social) - flic.kr/p/2pLmzMd
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