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MFWitches @mfwitches.bsky.social · 22/06/2025

How in the godforsaken fuck do we live on a planet where the world’s on the brink of another devastating war ATM and all because too many citizens in one fucked-up country couldn’t bring themselves (twice) to just vote for a woman? #NewsCorpse

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GaboMJ @gabrielmj1.bsky.social · 09/06/2025

This photograph shows us the other side of the Moon, which we usually do not see. It was captured by the Chinese Chang'e 5-T1 spacecraft.

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Thomas Fortenberry @thomasfortenberry.bsky.social · 17/05/2025

“SN 1993J: a supernova explosion in progress captured by the Hubble ST.”

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Dr Sally @drsally.bsky.social · 14/05/2025

Omg Absolutely affordable

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Hourly Cosmos @hourlycosmos.bsky.social · 11/05/2025

The Horsehead Nebula (Barnard 33) and NGC 2023 - From Rolf Wahl Olsen - flic.kr/p/rhRRAz

In the Shadow of the Horsehead - Deep 26 Hour Version

Link to full resolution image (3.8MB): goo.gl/mXsTKe
Link to large 'X3' size image: goo.gl/DnMTZA
Link to large 'X3' size greyscale version: goo.gl/fXA2fZ

I recently added a Ha filter to my collection and promptly put it to the test by soaking up a decent amount of data on the Horsehead nebula. I wanted to improve on my initial attempt on this target from 2014. One of the issues was that I'd like to show the delicate 'curtain' structure of IC 434, the bright glowing hydrogen emission that the Horsehead is silhouetted against.
This also prompted me to add more data to the LRGB channels as well in order to bring out the faint dust details better, so all together with last year's data I ended up with over 26 hours of data which I completely reprocessed and assembled into this updated version.
I'm pleased that the result has higher resolution and more depth than last years' effort. The colours are also richer and more refined and in particular the Ha curtains now stand out above and around the Horsehead.

About the image:
The Horsehead Nebula (also known as Barnard 33) is without doubt one of the most recognized and fascinating objects in the sky. This iconic feature is formed by the sharp outline of a dark dust cloud, with a remarkable likeness to a horse's head, silhouetted against a brightly glowing patch of ionized Hydrogen (IC434) that is being energized by the hard ultraviolet radiation from nearby Sigma Orionis, a...

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RSPB @rspb.bsky.social · 08/05/2025

Happy 99th birthday to the man who gave voice to the wild. 🎉 Sir David Attenborough, thank you for a lifetime dedicated to the natural world, and for sharing its story with wisdom, wonder, and grace. You've inspired generations to fall in love with nature.

This photograph captures Sir David Attenborough seated outdoors on the rugged terrain of Skomer Island. Behind him, the ocean and coastal cliffs form a scenic backdrop under a clear sky. Sir David, dressed in a khaki jacket and light trousers, looks towards the camera with a gentle expression, exuding a sense of warmth, calm, and wisdom. Around him, puffins can be seen flying and perched on the rocky ground, illuminated in rays of golden sunlight as the sun sets behind the cliffs.

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Amante2 AmeliaBee7 @amante2ameliabee7.bsky.social · 03/05/2025

SO happy for Ali France tonight!! VERY well deserved 👏👏👏👍💖

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Saganism @sagan.bsky.social · 29/04/2025

“The suppression of uncomfortable ideas may be common in religion or in politics, but it is not the path to knowledge, and there's no place for it in the endeavor of science.” - Carl Sagan

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Paul Byrne @theplanetaryguy.com · 29/04/2025

This is a new image from #JWST. The bright points with spikes are stars in the Milky Way. Everything else is a galaxy. Everything. Else. Is. A. Galaxy.

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Jonathan Green @greenj.bsky.social · 25/04/2025

Well done Nine papers, looking forward to your outrage at what happened this morning at the dawn service.

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Hepcat @hepzibah18.bsky.social · 23/04/2025

Our beautiful blue marble 🌏

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Nereide @drnereide.bsky.social · 22/04/2025

🧵 This intriguing image shows two distant interacting galaxies, collectively called Arp 142, resembling a penguin guarding an egg. The image combines data from NASA's Spitzer (infrared light) and Hubble (visible light) telescopes. ➡️ www.spitzer.caltech.edu/image/ssc201... 🔭 🧪 #extragalactic

The image shows two distant interacting galaxies, collectively called Arp 142, resembling a penguin guarding an egg.
The "penguin" galaxy, NGC 2936, has a distorted spiral shape with bluish filaments of newly-formed hot stars and red filaments of gas and dust. The "egg" galaxy, NGC 2937, appears nearly featureless with a greenish glow from older stars and no red dust features. A blue streak of an unrelated background galaxy is visible at the top. The galaxies are set against a dark cosmic background.

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Jasmine 🌌🔭 @astrojaz.bsky.social · 20/04/2025

the universe wishes you a happy easter, here’s the egg nebula 🌌

This colourful image shows a cosmic lighthouse known as the Egg Nebula, which lies around 3000 light-years from Earth.

The Egg Nebula is a ‘preplanetary nebula’. These objects occur as a dying star’s hot remains briefly illuminates material it has expelled, lighting up the gas and dust that surrounds it.

Although the dying star is hidden behind the thick dust lane that streaks down the centre of this image, it is revealed by the four lighthouse-like beams clearly visible through the veil of dust that lies beyond the central lane.

The concentric rings seen in the less dense cloud surrounding the star are due to the star ejecting material at regular intervals – typically every hundred years – during a phase of the star’s evolution just prior to this preplanetary nebula phase.

Caption credit: ESA

image credit: NASA/ESA/Hubble Heritage Team (STScI/AURA)
acknowledgment: W. Sparks (STScI) & R. Sahai (JPL)

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Emily Carter @emilycurates.bsky.social · 20/04/2025

Kenyan #journalist Alvin Kaunda was reporting live from Nairobi when a curious baby #elephant, Kindani, decided to join the broadcast. The playful elephant stuck her trunk in Alvin's mouth, making for a hilarious moment! A joyful reminder of wildlife's charm and the work of the Sheldrick Trust!

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Hepcat @hepzibah18.bsky.social · 21/04/2025

Greetings Blueys. Take a breather & enjoy this beautiful view of the Glasshouse Mountains. I've been making the most of the gorgeous weather and getting out in my own backyard...the view is spectacular!😺

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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 16/04/2025

Cohen: Take MeidasTouch Network. They’re beating Joe Rogan, they’re beating Fox, they’re beating the lame stream news. So when there’s a march, all you have to do is contact the Meiselas brothers — next thing you know, you’ve got ten million people showing up. That’s an army.

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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 15/04/2025

I see it. I have lived it. 83 years ago, the U.S. government turned upon a group of its own citizens and residents and sent them to internment camps without due process. I was there among them. American fascism is back. It is here. It is now.

A tweet by Sarah Longwell (@SarahLongwell25
) reads: "He’s threatening media companies who are critical of him. He’s talking about sending Americans to foreign prisons. He’s signing executive orders to investigate former staff members who spoke out against him. Don’t you see what’s happening here?"

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Casey @mamasissiesays.bsky.social · 16/04/2025

Get yourself a senator willing to rescue you in a foreign country after your messy president wrongfully deports you… …seems like a sentence I shouldn’t have to write in 2025 but here we are. Senator Chris Van Hollen leaves for El Salvador tomorrow to initiate the return of Kilmar Abrego Garcia.

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Sylvia at Tono Latino @tonolatino.bsky.social · 15/04/2025

Kilmar Abrego Garcia lived in Maryland with his wife and their three children, and has never been charged with any crime. The Department of Homeland Security issued him a work permit, and he joined a union, working full time as a sheet metal apprentice.

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Emily Carter @emilycurates.bsky.social · 14/04/2025

The Monarch #butterfly embarks on one of nature's most incredible journeys, migrating up to 3,000 miles from #Canada to central #Mexico. These tiny travelers, with wings of vibrant orange, navigate the vast distances using the sun and Earth’s magnetic fields, defying the odds

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Astronomy 🔭 @astronomy.bsky.social · 10/04/2025

Hubble is going on 35 years old, and it's STILL taking incredible images 🤩 Some of the most recent captures from Hubble:

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Scott MacFarlane @macfarlanenews.bsky.social · 09/04/2025

Sen. Adam Schiff (D-CA): "I'm writing to the White House to demand who knew in advance that the President was going to, once again, flip flop on tariffs. And are people cashing in? There is just all too much opportunity for people in the White House and the administration to be insider trading"

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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 09/04/2025

Spoiler: It is absolutely market manipulation

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God @thegodshow.com · 08/04/2025

This is what happens when everyone knows gramps shouldn't be driving but no one wants to take away his keys.

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Sheril Kirshenbaum @sheril.bsky.social · 07/04/2025

About 250M years ago, 90% of species on Earth died during the Permian extinction. All of that loss created a lot of vacant niches to fill.  Not long after, the first mammals, our ancestors, appeared.  Life on this pale blue dot will be resilient - whether we’re part of it or not. #science #history

Taken aboard Apollo 8 by Bill Anders, this iconic picture shows Earth peeking out from beyond the lunar surface as the first crewed spacecraft circumnavigated the Moon, with astronauts Anders, Frank Borman, and Jim Lovell aboard.

Image Credit: NASA

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Hoodlum 🇺🇸 @nothoodlum.bsky.social · 08/04/2025

A game show host who imposed tariffs on penguins is crashing the world’s economy. This isn’t 3-D chess, it’s complete insanity.

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Ian Graves @xskinn.bsky.social · 07/04/2025

The way I see it with Trump is,he wants to use the tariffs as a bargaining chip so he can make “deals,” with many countries,what does he want? Minerals. What do I call it? Good old fashioned extortion. Ian

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Eric Bananarama @ericbanana.bsky.social · 05/04/2025

Imperial Hotel in Sydney's inner-west has been heritage listed in recognition of its cultural significance & has played an important role as a safe space for the LGBTQIA+ community since 1983 The venue is recognised worldwide & featured in The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert #auspol

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Priscilla pub and 'safe space' for gay community heritage listed

Landmark inner-west Sydney pub, The Imperial, has been recognised not just because of "the building but what happened inside".

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Ignoble Jim R Houghton @jimrhoughton.bsky.social · 04/04/2025

Are there any lists of common products with American makers/owners available? If people around the world simply shunned American products wherever vaguely practical there would be no need for self-harming counter-tariffs.

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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 03/04/2025

"When was the last time you said 'thank you,' Mr. Penguin?"

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Ricky Davila @therickydavila.bsky.social · 04/04/2025

There’s literally a post for every occasion.

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Van Badham @vanbadham.bsky.social · 03/04/2025

Corker of a comment on my FB page today… #auspol

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California Dreamin’… 😎 @jerasikehorn.bsky.social · 28/03/2025

Canada is potentially about to elect a Prime Minister with a PhD in economics from Oxford, Mexico elected someone with a degree in physics and a PhD in energy engineering… Meanwhile, America elected a barely sentient orange turnip. Any Questions?!

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angry-goddess.bsky.social @angry-goddess.bsky.social · 28/03/2025

🚨🚨 WARNING do not click on any Liberal links🚨🚨

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Anonymous @youranoncentral.bsky.social · 27/03/2025

The Trump led US is seeking to create an Arctic partnership with Russia and joint exploration of Arctic natural resources. It's one of the points the Trump & Putin regimes touched on during the faux Ukraine "peace negotiations" in Saudi Arabia. #ArcticFront newsukraine.rbc.ua/news/us-and-...

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Mark Hamill @markhamillofficial.bsky.social · 27/03/2025

Actually, quite flattering.

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Teri G @terilg.bsky.social · 26/03/2025

This is Yale Professor Timothy Snyder, who studies authoritarians and tyranny, with a warning. He and another Yale professor, Jason Stanley, who studies similar topics at Yale, are moving to Canadian universities, a result of the political and academic climate here.

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 24/03/2025

Is Bondi going to prosecute this guy federally as a domestic terrorist?

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Scott Galloway @profgalloway.com · 24/03/2025

Don’t drink and text.

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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 21/03/2025

We are sending people for indefinite detention without trial at a foreign gulag because they have tattoos about soccer teams and about loving their mothers.

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Senator Bernie Sanders @sanders.senate.gov · 21/03/2025

The United States of America is the only major country on earth that does not guarantee health care as a human right. The result: We rank dead last among wealthy nations in life expectancy. We must end that international embarrassment. Yes. We need Medicare for All.

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Peter Murphy @peterwmurphy1.bsky.social · 20/03/2025

Imagine thinking it's a good idea to claim "common ground" with a convicted felon, who betrayed Ukraine to support Putin, and is busily dismantling democracy to support billionaires & destroy govt services in the USA. Wow, Dutton DOES have a lot in common with Trump! #USPolitics #auspol #AusVotes25

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Chris Bowen @chrisbowenmp.bsky.social · 20/03/2025

Peter Dutton says the technology to store renewable energy doesn’t exist yet Well Mr Dutton, today we announced 4 big batteries in WA than can together power 600,000 households. Not that you ever let facts get in the way.

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Katie Phang @katiephang.bsky.social · 19/03/2025

Something to think about

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