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Jasmine 🌌🔭 @astrojaz.bsky.social · 20/02/2025

i feel like we all need another timeline cleanser

A large galaxy is at center, and a significantly smaller galaxy is to its left. The large galaxy is mostly face-on, but the top appears slightly tilted away. It has several rings. Its circular core is bright white at the very center, but light yellow overall. Going outward, there are gaps between the rings. The core is surrounded by two slightly lighter yellow rings, which also appear to be overlapping. The next ring is slightly more transparent and yellow. The two or three rings that are farther out are bluer, sometimes with blue clumps. The widest ring is also blue, but also the most transparent. At 9 o’clock is a small dwarf galaxy. It is about the same size as the yellow core of the Bullseye. The dwarf galaxy is blue, with many dots. It looks like the edge of the Bullseye might touch the dwarf galaxy. Both galaxies are set on the black background of space, which is dotted with a range of galaxies in different shapes, colors, and sizes, along with one foreground star at left.

A concentration of bright blue stars occupies the bottom right corner of the image. At bottom center within them is a small blue bubble. The stars and bubble are part of a diffuse dwarf galaxy that extends beyond the image border. Background galaxies are scattered across the image, with some particularly prominent spirals located at upper left and upper right. The background of space is black.

This is a highly detailed composite image of a star-forming region of space known as 30 Doradus, shaped like a bouquet, or a maple leaf.

X-ray wind and gas takes the shape of a massive purple and pink bouquet with an extended central flower, or perhaps a leaf from a maple tree. The hazy, mottled shape occupies much of the image, positioned just to our left of center, tilted slightly to our left. Inside the purple and pink gas and wind cloud are red and orange veins, and pockets of bright white light. The red and orange veins represent energy ejected by supernovas, carried on cosmically strong winds. The pockets of white light represent clusters of young stars. One cluster at the heart of 30 Doradus houses the most massive stars astronomers have ever found.

The hazy purple and pink bouquet is surrounded by glowing dots of green, white, orange, and red. A second mottled purple cloud shape, which resembles a ring of smoke, sits in our lower righthand corner.

$This is a composite image of star cluster NGC 602, in vibrant and festive colors. The shape of the star cluster strongly resembles a holiday wreath. The cluster includes a giant dust cloud ring, shown in greens, yellows, blues, and oranges. The green hues and feathery edges of the ring cloud create the appearance of a wreath made of evergreen boughs. Hints of red representing X-rays provide shading, highlighting layers within the wreath-like ring cloud. The image is aglow with specks and dots of colorful, festive light, in blues, golds, whites, oranges, and reds. These lights represent stars within the cluster. Some of the lights gleam with diffraction spikes, while others emit a warm, diffuse glow. Upon closer inspection, many of the glowing specks have spiraling arms, indicating that they are, in fact, distant galaxies.$

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Governor Tim Walz @governorwalz.mn.gov · 20/02/2025

It was an honor to sign the guest book in the home of Anne Frank. I was here as a younger man and thought about her life as a dark chapter of history. Today, I can’t help but think of her story as one of caution. Our world is fragile, and it’s incumbent on us not to break it.

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 15/02/2025

When SpaceX’s Starship blew up in January, Musk called it “barely a bump in the road,” brushing off the FAA’s concerns. Yet during the accident, dozens of airplanes scrambled to avoid debris. Pieces of the craft were later found on beaches and roads.

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One Agency Tried to Regulate SpaceX. Now Its Fate Could Be in Elon Musk’s Hands.

The Trump ally and DOGE chief is expected to turn his budget-slashing sights on the FAA’s little-known commercial spaceflight office, which has proposed fines and grounded SpaceX after explosions and…

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Mike Godwin @mnemonic.bsky.social · 15/02/2025

One of the reasons I love the cover of the first issue of CAPTAIN AMERICA (on news stands in December of 1940 with a cover date of March 1941) is that Jack Kirby and Joe Simon could see, a year ahead of Pearl Harbor, that fascism would be the enemy. Because they were paying attention.

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AltYellostoneNatPar @altyellonatpark.org · 29/01/2025

A rare cartwheel galaxy PGC-2248 Photo credit James Webb Space Telescope Constellation Sculptor Discovered 1941 by Fritz Zwicky Distance 500 light years Once a normal spiral galaxy it collided perfectly (bulls eye) with another galaxy who's shock wave created this unique structure.

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DevinCow @devincow.bsky.social · 24/01/2025

What an exhausting day. So much trauma out there in the world, in our people. Sending love ♥️

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Steven Beschloss @stevenbeschloss.bsky.social · 24/01/2025

“I’m looking for the helpers, the first-responders, the members of the opposition who will not just stand by or turn away while a sociopathic president abuses his power to attack the vulnerable, exalt the violent and trash the Constitution.” www.americaamerica.news/p/take-stren...

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Take Strength from the Helpers

Pay attention to those who have refused to stay silent in the face of dangerous pardons, attacks on the vulnerable and desecration of the Constitution

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CNN @cnn.com · 24/01/2025

Costco shareholders voted strongly against a proposal requesting a report on the risks of maintaining its diversity and inclusion initiatives, the US company said, sending a message running counter to the intense scrutiny many such corporate policies face. cnn.it/3PQdvlo

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Kleber Victor #followback @kleber-victor.bsky.social · 24/01/2025

A stars massive outburst captured by the Hubble Space Telescope. 📽: NASA/ESA

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Saganism @sagan.bsky.social · 23/01/2025

Every star may be a sun to someone. ~ Carl Sagan, Cosmos

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Dave Winer on Bluesky @scripting.com · 24/01/2025

I kept this screenshot assuming someday we might be asked to forget.

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God @thegodshow.com · 23/01/2025

Thou shalt accept that DEI didn't hold your career back -- you're just mid, bro.

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Space @redditspaceviewes.bsky.social · 24/01/2025

United Kingdom from space Credit:NASA

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 24/01/2025

NEW: The Department of Labor report found widespread noncompliance and violations of federal law in how health plans and insurers cover mental health care, echoing the findings of a recent ProPublica investigation. propub.li/4aue7qi

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Insurers Failed to Comply With Mental Health Coverage Law, Department of Labor Report Finds

The probe found widespread noncompliance and violations of federal law in how health plans and insurers cover mental health care, echoing the findings of a recent ProPublica investigation.

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US News Now - World’s leading Liberal Voice @democracyblue.bsky.social · 21/01/2025

LOOKING BACK: This all began with Reagan's repeal of the Fairness Doctrine. News stopped bring a regulated public service....

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molly conger @socialistdogmom.bsky.social · 20/01/2025

hahaha oh no. no i don't care for any of this.

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Season of Scaryanne Denton 🧡🎃 @mariannedenton.bsky.social · 20/01/2025

“But I know, somehow, that only when it is dark enough can you see the stars.” ~Martin Luther King, Jr. 1968 Triangulum Galaxy (M33)

A spiral galaxy, the Triangulum Galaxy, through an astrophotography telescope.

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The Daily Show @thedailyshow.com · 20/01/2025

Back on the grind tomorrow

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Jwst Feed @jwstfeed.bsky.social · 20/01/2025

NGC 2070, a field of newborn stars. Processed by @thocarp.bsky.social www.flickr.com/photos/19746... 🔭 🧪

The Tarantula Nebula, also known as NGC 2070, is a star-forming region located in the Large Magellanic Cloud. This image, captured by the James Webb Space Telescope's Near-Infrared Camera (NIRCam), showcases the nebula's intricate structure and vibrant colors. Red hues indicate the presence of hot, ionized hydrogen gas, while blue areas reveal cooler dust and gas.

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God @thegodshow.com · 20/01/2025

Hi, I’m God. I had nothing to do with saving that guy’s life or making him president.

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Space @redditspaceviewes.bsky.social · 18/01/2025

The Lagoon Nebula Credits: NASA

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Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · 18/01/2025

Stunning new image from the James Webb Space Telescope offers a timely reminder that there is so much beauty to be found in this universe, if we look for it.

This image from NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope shows a portion of the Leo P dwarf galaxy (stars at lower right represented in blue). Leo P is a star-forming galaxy located about 5 million light-years away in the constellation Leo. A team of scientists collected data from about 15,000 stars in Leo P to deduce its star formation history. They determined that it went through three phases: an initial burst of star formation, a “pause” that lasted several billion years, and then a new round of star formation that is still continuing.

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Space @redditspaceviewes.bsky.social · 19/01/2025

Jupiter and its moon Io Credit| NASA

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God @thegodshow.com · 16/01/2025

The Supreme Court ruled corporations were allowed to donate unlimited amounts to politicians in 2010. It only took them 6 years to take complete control of the government and 15 years to mark sure their voices are the only ones the masses ever hear again.

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God @thegodshow.com · 15/01/2025

Pete Hegseth is not qualified to run a bathroom.

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Space Telescope Science Institute @stsci.edu · 13/01/2025

NEWS: Hubble makes another exciting discovery about a quasar with newborn jets: It’s hosted by a spiral galaxy, throwing into question the popular idea that jets are triggered by messy galaxy mergers: bit.ly/4h6d2XG #AAS245 🔭 🧪

Field of yellow galaxies of various sizes and distances on a black background. Two larger galaxies are prominent. Centered is a galaxy with a bright core and faint spiral arms coming off its top and bottom. To the lower right of the spiral is a ring galaxy with an apparent gap between its bright core and the ring oval of dust and gas surrounding it.

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Slate @slate.com · 13/01/2025

No one prepares you for if it’s not going to work—so when it doesn’t, it’s just shocking.”

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No One Who Wants Kids Thinks They’ll End Up Here. When They Do, They Come to a Stark Choice.

Advances in IVF have created a new problem.

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Dr Pepper @drpepperofficial.bsky.social · 12/01/2025

Just drank a #DrPepper and I’m feeling incredible!

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