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Polo @polo07.bsky.social · 11/02/2026

It’s nice to know that Hasan Piker won’t be affected by a continued Trump administration.

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Destiny | Steven Bonnell II @destiny.gg · 06/11/2025

Biden stepped back and let the DOJ charge his son. He only RIGHTFULLY pardoned him after Republicans turned the ordeal into political blood sport.

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Polo @polo07.bsky.social · 17/08/2025

Hasan Piker says Hila Klein is a Valid military target.

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Polo @polo07.bsky.social · 17/08/2025

Hasan Piker supports the ethnic cleansing and genocide of Armenians, Assyrians, Greeks and Kurds by the Turks and the illegal invasion and occupation of Cyprus by the Turks.

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John Tomasura @jonston.bsky.social · 19/07/2025

Finally had a couple of hours of clear sky last evening so I let the telescope out for a little more than two hours clock time, but only about an hour of actual exposure, so Cygnus was already up in the east and the Western veil nebula was calling me. #Astronomy

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Polo @polo07.bsky.social · 02/06/2025

I pray for Ukraine’s victory every single day. Slava Ukraini. 🌻🌻🌻🌻🌻🌻🌻🌻🌻🌻🌻🌻

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Polo @polo07.bsky.social · 29/05/2025

You ever be so wrong you swing on a couch? @MikeFromPA has. This is what happens when the rage outweighs the drip. #CouchBeater #TheoryAndThrowPillows

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Polo @polo07.bsky.social · 12/05/2025

Where is Jill Stein when you need her 💀💀💀

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Polo @polo07.bsky.social · 07/05/2025

Hasan Piker mocked and denied the rapes committed by Hamas on Oct 7. Women were mutilated and burned alive. He called it propaganda. That’s not nuance. That’s inhuman. #HasanPiker #October7 #FakeFeminist #WarCrimes

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Polo @polo07.bsky.social · 06/05/2025

Hasan Piker calls Hamas the “lesser evil.” These are the same people who execute LGBTQ+ individuals and openly call for genocide. But sure, keep calling it “nuance.” #HasanPiker #TerrorApologist #FakeProgressive #LGBTQRights #PoliticalGrift

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Polo @polo07.bsky.social · 22/04/2025

Are there any good karaoke games on steam?

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GingerAstroNerd @gingerastro.bsky.social · 16/04/2025

Here’s galaxy #M106 which has some Hydrogen alpha ions that you see can glowing in that reddish-pink color. I captured 19.5 hours of total data integration on this one. I really like how it turned out! 👍 #telescope #celestron #galaxy #astrophotography #space #zwo #am5 #asiair

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Brian ☀️🌏🌘 @balail.bsky.social · 08/04/2025

A Barred Owl fledgling perched in a palm tree away from the nest but under the watchful eyes of mom. #photography #naturephotography #wildlifephotography #thelittlethings

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Astronomy 🔭 @astronomy.bsky.social · 07/04/2025

This new Webb image shows an edge-on protoplanetary disc around a newly formed star, surrounded by jets and a disc wind, in unprecedented detail. Credit: ESA/Webb, NASA & CSA, Tazaki et al.

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AstroMikeAZ @kmikemcd.bsky.social · 08/04/2025

Markarian’s Chain in the heart of the galaxy cluster in Virgo. M 84 and M 86 are central to the chain along with NGC 4438. M 87 is also in this image to the lower left as are many other galaxies. #astrophotography

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Astronomy 🔭 @astronomy.bsky.social · 05/04/2025

Witness a baby star! This Hubble infrared image captures protostar J1672835.29-763111.64 in Chamaeleon. Protostars shine from collapsing gas & dust, eventually igniting into stars. Leftovers can form planets! Credit: NASA/ESA/T. Megeath/K. Stapelfeldt

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Hourly Cosmos @hourlycosmos.bsky.social · 05/04/2025

Mars - October 5 2017 - From Kevin M. Gill (kevinmgill.bsky.social) - flic.kr/p/2hXc16q

Applied tone, contrast, & sharpening adjustments.

ISRO/ISSDC/Kevin M. Gill

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Hourly Cosmos @hourlycosmos.bsky.social · 05/04/2025

AM 1705-773 - From Judy Schmidt (geckzilla.bsky.social) - flic.kr/p/T68ekd

A flocculent spiral galaxy with some of our own galaxy's flocculence in front of it. If you look to the lower right corner, you can see it's a bit darker and muddy-colored. That's our Milky Way's dust. It's thick enough that it seems to completely obscure some of the distant spiral in visible light. It is difficult to tell where our galaxy ends and the external galaxy begins, which almost makes it look like it's attached.

None of the regular color surveys I usually check have contained this galaxy, but color data was kindly provided by William Keel, which he gathered using the remotely-operated SARA 24-inch telescope at Cerro Tololo in Chile.

NASA/ESA/William Keel/Judy Schmidt

HST Proposal:
Establishing HST's Low Redshift Archive of Interacting Systems

Luminosity: ACS/WFC F606W
Red: r
Green: v
Blue: b

North is 8.42° clockwise from up.

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Dave @photonphanatic.bsky.social · 05/04/2025

Another new image from old data. Shot in March 2022. Bode's Galaxy (M 81) and the Cigar Galaxy (M 82). Shot with a color camera through my 100-mm f/5.5 refractor. More info on Astrobin: app.astrobin.com?i=f7osza #Astrophotography

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Jasmine 🌌🔭 @astrojaz.bsky.social · 05/04/2025

WOW WOW WOW LOOK AT THIS BEAUTIFUL NEW HUBBLE IMAGE OF NGC 346!!! 🌌

A star cluster within a nebula. The background is filled with thin, pale blue clouds. Parts are thicker and pinker in colour. The cluster is made up of bright blue stars that illuminate the nebula around them. Large arcs of dense dust curve around, before and behind the clustered stars, pressed together by the stars’ radiation. Behind the clouds of the nebula can be seen large numbers of orange stars.

Image credit: ESA/Hubble & NASA, A. Nota, P. Massey, E. Sabbi, C. Murray, M. Zamani (ESA/Hubble)

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

TODAY’S NEW HUBBLE IMAGE SHOWING GALAXY NGC 4941 WHICH IS 67 MILLION LIGHT-YEARS AWAY!! 🌌

A spiral galaxy stretches diagonally across the image, from upper-left to lower-right. At its center is a bright-white, glowing orb surrounded by an inner disk of golden light that is wrapped by a broad outer disk that glows more dimly. The disk holds patchy, broken spiral arms swirling around the galaxy’s core and filled with small blue and pink star clusters. Dark, reddish threads of dust also spiral through the disk, with some strands reaching into the core.

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Katie Hughes (Alba Astro) 🔭 📷 @albaastro.bsky.social · 04/04/2025

#astro last nights efforts. The Pinwheel Galaxy M101. LRGB filters. Still to capture Ha. This is my first draft. Hopefully get it finished before constant twilight hits Scotland.

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Polo @polo07.bsky.social · 03/04/2025

This the same dude begging for donations because his bargain-bin coffee brand flopped? Rumble ain’t cutting the check huh? LMAO 💀💀💀 #Republicans #GOP #Smallbusiness

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Hourly Cosmos @hourlycosmos.bsky.social · 02/04/2025

Deep Image of Grand Design Spiral Messier 100 and Dwarf Planet Ceres - From Rolf Wahl Olsen - flic.kr/p/2pmHug7

This deep image shows the grand design spiral galaxy Messier 100. Its prominent and well-defined spiral arms are ablaze with pink HII regions and bright blue supergiant stars. In the centre of the galaxy lies an area of intense star formation visible as a small bright ring surrounding the core. A large faint halo extends far beyond the bright spiral arms.
This magnificent galaxy is located in the constellation Coma Berenices, approximately 55 million light-years away from Earth. At 107,000 light-years in diameter it is one of the largest spiral galaxies in the Virgo Cluster.
Close to Messier 100 lies two satellite galaxies; NGC 4322 to the northeast connected by a bridge of luminous matter, and to the east is NGC 4328. Further away to the southwest lies NGC 4312, an edge-on spiral galaxy with a bright central region and a dusty disk. Numerous other smaller galaxies are scattered across the field, many of which are ultra faint dwarf galaxies with no obvious structure.
In the deep background countless distant galaxies appear, many visibly reddened by the cosmological redshift.

On the 27th March 2023, while some of the image data was acquired, the dwarf planet Ceres (mag 6.9) crossed the field of view, passing slowly in front of Messier 100's outer reaches as viewed from our perspective.
Here Ceres is visible as a bright yellowish 'star' close to the edge of Messier 100, in the 2 o'clock position.
Click here for another version of the image without Ceres.

Resolution .........

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female gooner @lofibaby.bsky.social · 03/04/2025

applied for a job as soon as i saw those switch 2 prices

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Universal-Sci @universal-sci.bsky.social · 03/04/2025

Breathtaking: Herbig Haro 901 an immense pillar of gas and dust inside the Carina Nebula, a vast star-forming region in our galaxy. The pillar is several light-years tall and contains a few massive young stars. Credit: NASA, ESA, Greg T. Bacon (STScI)

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theastroastro.bsky.social @theastroastro.bsky.social · 03/04/2025

Moon - Pleiades conjunction [by -GenArrow-] #astronomy #astrophotography

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Jasmine 🌌🔭 @astrojaz.bsky.social · 02/04/2025

thinking about this today

This image of the Ring Nebula, taken by Webb’s Near-Infrared Camera, appears as a distorted doughnut. The nebula’s inner cavity hosts shades of blue and green, while the detailed ring transitions through shades of orange in the inner regions and pink in the outer region. The ring’s inner region has distinct filament elements. Stars litter the scene, with a particularly prominent star with 8 long spikes in the top right corner.

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Jasmine 🌌🔭 @astrojaz.bsky.social · 02/04/2025

space sucks and is soooooo lame, why does anyone even like it 👎

$A ruddy nebula is pierced through with orange stars on the right side of the image, and a large white star with diffraction spikes shines at lower left. A cavity in the nebula is seen near upper left with bright blue wisps of gas throughout.$ $A nebula with stars. The center of the image from top-left to bottom-right glows brightly with the light of newly forming stars and is partially obscured by dark dust. Colored layers of gas and dust billow out across the rest of the image. Foreground stars with large diffraction spikes speckle the nebula.$ $Thousands of bright stars shine against black space, more tightly condensed near the image’s center. The stars glint in shades of white, blue, and red, and diffraction spikes are visible around the foreground stars.$ Webb's image of a section of the Flame Nebula, which contains a mixture of reds, blues and browns, and shows red, blue, and white stars.

Webb's image of a section of the Flame Nebula, which contains a mixture of reds, blues and browns, and shows red, blue, and white stars.

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US National Gemini Office @usngo.bsky.social · 02/04/2025

This week’s image is of the galaxy NGC 772! Gemini’s GMOS-N captured this galaxy’s stunning spiral morphology and abundant other galaxies in the background. Marvelous galaxies like these can be found in galaxy clusters. Check out the 🧵 for more papers on galaxy clusters! #astronomy

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Walt Watson Astrophotography @waltwatsonastro.bsky.social · 01/04/2025

The M81 group includes Bode's Galaxy (M81), The Cigar galaxy (M82) an the Garland Galaxy (NGC3077). The group is ~12 Mly distant in Ursa Major Fun Wiki fact: A supernova was seen in the Cigar galaxy on 01/21/14 This is my first "Galaxy Season" galaxy photo of the year. #astronomy #astrophotography

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CosmicRami 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @rami.spaceaustralia.com · 01/04/2025

If it is nighttime where you are now, and you have clear skies + a set of binoculars you can access, there is a nice crescent Moon near a spectacular star cluster - the Pleiades. It's a magnificent cluster observed by humans for thousands of years! Go look, take photos + share! 🔭🧪 📸 Stellarium

graphic showing a small section of the night sky with a crescent moon sitting below a set of points of light, surrounded by a circle annotating that these are the Pleiades.

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Dave @photonphanatic.bsky.social · 31/03/2025

More old data, this time from June 2023. The Sunflower Galaxy (M 63), shot with a color camera through my C8. About 4 hours of exposures. Could have used more time on target. Technical info on this image can be found on Astrobin: app.astrobin.com/i/zy3dzq?r=B #Astrophotography

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Lady-Rain @lady-rain.bsky.social · 29/03/2025

In your own time, in your own way blossom… #Photography #Flowers #Roses

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Landru79 @landru79.bsky.social · 29/03/2025

James #Webb Space Telescope #JWST Resolving Star Formation At the Star Cluster Scale Down to ~30 pc at z=2.5 pi_name: Bayliss, Matthew date_obs: 2024-03-27 Instrument: #NIRCAM NASA/ESA/CSA/STScI/j. Roger

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urmymuse @urmymuse.bsky.social · 29/03/2025

The Garlic Nebula! A supernova remnant in Cassiopeia. Originally discovered in the mid 1950s. Shot from here in Leeds UK. 18 hours exposure time, grabbing a couple of hours on each clear night since Jan 25th. #Astronomy #Astrophotography

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Landru79 @landru79.bsky.social · 29/03/2025

#Hubble Space Telescope Target Name: #NGC1976 Instrument: ACS Start Time: 2003-12-29 Filters: f660n f658N f550m f502n NASA/j. Roger

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Hourly Cosmos @hourlycosmos.bsky.social · 29/03/2025

Expansion of SNR0509 Over 10 Years - From Judy Schmidt (geckzilla.bsky.social) - flic.kr/p/2heWSpn

Presented here is an animation of the supernova remnant SNR J0509.5-6731 expanding over time. It appears to be moving at close to 2% of the speed of light. It is around 163000 light years distant, so it has to move quite speedily for us to be able to witness its movement on a human timescale. The first frame is from 2006, and the second is from 2016. The video shows the two frames blinking back and forth to make the motion easy to see.

Note that only the narrowband (seen here as the red, smooth outline of the nebula) was available to show the nebula's expansion. The star field is essentially a static image, though the narrowband data did also capture some star movement, particularly the bright star to the left of the frame. The Chandra data was simply scaled up to match with the expansion of the shell in the Hubble data.

A still image is available here: flic.kr/p/2heTvq9

Flickr shrank this video down, so you may prefer a larger version at Youtube:
youtu.be/YZUJysgK6Us

Hubble proposals used:
The Proper Motion of Supernova Remnant E0509-67.5
Single-Degenerate or Double-Degenerate? The Case for a Third Epoch Observation of the Confirmed Ia Supernova Remnant 0509-67.5
A Search for Surviving Companions of Type Ia Supernovae in the Large Magellanic Cloud
Hubble Heritage 2.0

Chandra data:
Red: .10-.70 keV
Green: .70-1.0 keV
Blue: 1.00-5.00 keV
(Obs IDs 776, 7635, 8554)

Hubble data:
Red screen: ACS/WFC F658N
Red: WFC3/UVIS F814W
Green: WFC3/UVIS F555W
Blue: WFC3/UVIS F475W

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Polo @polo07.bsky.social · 30/03/2025

Bathed in a soft violet glow, this hydrangea blooms like a whispered secret — tender, fragile, yet boldly radiant, cradled by emerald leaves that guard its quiet beauty.

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