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Supernova remnants (SNRs). Would you believe, both of these SNRs are roughly the same age and size. Only difference is distance! G179, top left - 11,000 lya Simeis 147, bottom right - 3,000 lya Gives you a cool perspective on distance in space! Image credit: Stephane Vetter 🔭 #Space #Astronomy

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NGC 6888, the Crescent Nebula. Ha+OIII+RGB stars. Wikipedia: "...formed by the fast stellar wind from the Wolf-Rayet star WR 136 colliding with and energizing the slower moving wind ejected by the star when it became a red giant". WR 136 is the center bright star. #redwolfastro #astrophotography

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A second Fellow has resigned and over 900 scientists have signed an open letter to call on @royalsociety.org to strip Elon Musk of his Fellowship! I'm relieved that there's finally momentum on this... [🔭🧪⚛️] Want to add your name to the letter? Here's the link: occamstypewriter.org/scurry/2025/...

submitted 10 days ago • 2 comments

🔭 Auroral Hummingbird over Norway Image Credit & Copyright: Mickael Coulon apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap25021...

submitted 12 days ago • 6 comments

The faint and unusual Cometary Globules CG14, CG15 and CG16 on the #puppis and #carina border. They are all pointing away from the #vela #supernova remnant. Imaged remotely in Yass, Australia, 160 x 300s. Full res on www.flickr.com/photos/dodi-... #astronomy #astrophotography #space #deepsky

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Pinning this.

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Turn that flag upside down. Burn it to the ground.

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Watching these red states attack federal funding—apparently not realizing that most of their states are broke and would completely collapse without it—will always be hilarious to me. “Give it all back to the states!” Sit down, Cletus. Your state can’t buy sandwiches for kids.

submitted 24 days ago • 677 comments

Most importantly, federal funds supported my role in the careers of the students that I’ve worked with. Plus, I have mapped the surface of a star that’s 7 million times farther from Earth than the Sun. I have predicted the pitch of starquakes that we can hear with light. And on and on. 🧪🔭

submitted 23 days ago • 3 comments

Here is irony: trump supporters wave the "Don't Tread on Me" flag, but embrace Trump's executive orders, similar to a king's decrees, which tread on the same freedoms the Gadsden Flag symbolizes. Make up your damn minds: You want freedom or fascism?

submitted 24 days ago • 408 comments

🚨BREAKING: Google changing Gulf of Mexico to "Gulf of America" on Google Maps. I will be using Apple Maps from now on!

submitted 25 days ago • 22 comments

The Ordnance Survey map app is currently half price – £17.50 for a full year, giving you access to every map, at every level of detail, plus nifty route planning tools. You can also download maps to use offline. Way better for walking than Google Maps. shop.ordnancesurvey.co.uk/maps/os-maps...

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This may be the strangest planet yet discovered. It seems to be a Pluto-size world circling the remains of three dead stars: two white dwarfs & a pulsar, as massive as the Sun but no bigger than Brooklyn. If confirmed, it is also the smallest exoplanet known. 🧪🔭 astrobiology.com/2025/01/have...

submitted 26 days ago • 34 comments

If someone asking a powerful person to show kindness to those without power offends your Christianity, your Christianity would offend Jesus. www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

submitted 31 days ago • 260 comments

This puritanical pixie thinks Jesus's Sermon on the Mount was radical ideology. "Blessed are the merciful." Matthew 5:7 Christian Nationalists are the least likely Americans to pay attention to Jesus. Even atheists are more likely to follow his teachings, if only inadvertently.

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People are losing their pets, their cherished possessions, their homes, and their lives, so Polymarket is making money off their misery by turning it into a betting game. OBSCENE.

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This is fun.

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Don't f***ing fist-bump me. 🤬🤬🤬 I am NOT your dude-bro buddy. 🤬🤬🤬

submitted 45 days ago • 1 comment