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“Not My President’s Day”: Thousands Gather in Protest Against Trump - 23 images of rallies across the U.S., protesting against President Donald Trump, Elon Musk, & what organizers call “the anti-democratic and illegal actions of the Trump administration.” www.theatlantic.com/photo/2025/0...

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I loved today's photos, most courtesy of NASA's Don Pettit, astronaut, engineer, & photographer extraordinaire: Night on Earth, Seen From Orbit - 24 recent images from the International Space Station, showing the many colorful lights on the Earth's night side www.theatlantic.com/photo/2025/0...

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Posted at my day job: Superb Owl Sunday IX - A special Sunday event: my ninth annual photo collection celebrating these magnificent birds of prey. If you have some time today before the big game, I invite you to have a look. 🦉https://www.theatlantic.com/photo/2025/02/superb-owl-sunday-ix/681624/

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I tried to come up with a worst Alan, but really am coming up blank - maybe Alan Smithee? I kept finding either footballers, or famous people like Alda, Cumming, Rickman, Tudyk, Arkin, Dean Foster, Moore, Alexander Milne, Jackson, Turing ... or the fictional Grant and Wake.

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Posted at my day job, I love these: Winners of the 2024 Close-Up Photographer of the Year - 21 of this year's winning and honored images in a contest that “celebrates close-up, macro, and micro photography.” www.theatlantic.com/photo/2025/0...

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Take a break from your regularly scheduled doomscrolling and marvel at this clip. A jawdropping feat of editing by Questlove - incredible!

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Being a person with deadly, incurable cancer who is nonetheless still alive for an indefinite timeframe gives me an interesting metaphor that helps me deal with things like large-scale corruption in government or commerce. Bear with me for a second while I try to explain.

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My neighbor Arthur made my childhood magical, and he died in the Palisades Fire. Here is my thank you to him, in @theatlantic.com: www.theatlantic.com/science/arch...

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Speeding recklessly through a forest in rural Washington State, trespassing, breaking-and-entering, theft of government property.

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These extraordinary photos of the LA fires have been shared widely on social media, often without crediting the photographer. These are all the work of Ethan Swope, an LA-based photojournalist working for AP. You can follow his remarkable reporting here👇 www.instagram.com/ethanswopeph...

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I feel like this title is a euphemism, though I'm not quite sure what for: "Shouldering the Imitation Ox". From a 1909 book "Wild Nature's Ways", where a pair of wildlife photographers share tricks to get closer to wildlife, including blinds & stuffed animals. publicdomainreview.org/essay/stuffe...

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The world rushes past below, seen from aboard the ISS on December 23, 2024, somewhere above China (likely taken by astronaut Don Pettit, though I can't verify).

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Day 25 of the 2024 Space Telescope Advent Calendar: The Most Distant Known Galaxy. Using the James Webb Space Telescope, scientists have found a record-breaking distant galaxy observed just 290 million years after the Big Bang. Merry Christmas everyone! www.theatlantic.com/photo/2024/1...

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Day 24 of the 2024 Space Telescope Advent Calendar: An Energetic Stellar Nursery. This new image from the James Webb Space Telescope features the young star cluster NGC 602, near the outskirts of the Small Magellanic Cloud, about 200,000 light-years away. www.theatlantic.com/photo/2024/1...

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Day 23 of the 2024 Space Telescope Advent Calendar: A Spray of Glowing Filaments. R Aquarii is a symbiotic binary star that lies roughly 700 light-years from Earth, surrounded by a large, dynamic nebula. www.theatlantic.com/photo/2024/1...

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Day 22 of the 2024 Space Telescope Advent Calendar: The Edge of a Spiral. Located roughly 150 million light-years from Earth in the constellation Serpens, UGC 10043 is one of the somewhat rare spiral galaxies that are seen edge-on. www.theatlantic.com/photo/2024/1...

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Day 21 of the 2024 Space Telescope Advent Calendar: Inside a Chaotic Nebula. Sharpless 2-106 is a nebula several light-years across, seen here by Hubble in 2011. It lies 2,000 light years away, in a relatively isolated region of the Milky Way galaxy. www.theatlantic.com/photo/2024/1...

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Day 20 of the 2024 Space Telescope Advent Calendar: A Galactic Chain. This Hubble image features the interacting galaxy system Arp-Madore 2105-332, about 200 million light-years away, aligned with several more-distant galaxies that form a sort of chain in the sky. www.theatlantic.com/photo/2024/1...

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Day 19 of the 2024 Space Telescope Advent Calendar: A Beacon in the Clouds. This JWST image features a bright H II region in the Large Magellanic Cloud. This nebula, known as N79 is a massive star-forming complex spanning roughly 1,630 light-years across. www.theatlantic.com/photo/2024/1...

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Really grateful for the tireless efforts of so many to get to this point. It's a real accomplishment, and will create a solid foundation for years to come.

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Day 18 of the 2024 Space Telescope Advent Calendar: An Energetic Protostar. FS Tau is a multi-star system made up of FS Tau A, the bright object near center, and FS Tau B, the bright protostar to the far right, partially obscured by a dark lane of dust. www.theatlantic.com/photo/2024/1...

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Amazed I'd never heard of Schnabelperchten before: "With a quiet 'Ga Ga Ga' they go from house to house & check... Woe to those who have not cleaned their houses... the Schnabelperchten will cut open their stomachs with long scissors & empty the rubbish into them!" www.raurisertal.at/en/raurisert...

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Day 17 of the 2024 Space Telescope Advent Calendar: A Gathering of Ancient Stars. Globular cluster NGC 2005, featured in this Hubble image, lies about 750 light-years from the heart of the Large Magellanic Cloud, about 162,000 light-years away from us. www.theatlantic.com/photo/2024/1...

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Day 16 of the 2024 Space Telescope Advent Calendar: A New View of a Distant Spiral. This image from JWST shows spiral galaxy NGC 628 in a new light, combining near- and mid-infrared light observations to reveal many previously-unseen intricate details. www.theatlantic.com/photo/2024/1...

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Day 15 of the 2024 Space Telescope Advent Calendar - Glowing From Within. This mosaic of images from the James Webb Space Telescope showcases the nearby star-forming cluster, NGC 1333, about 960 light-years away, in the Perseus molecular cloud. www.theatlantic.com/photo/2024/1...

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Day 14 of the 2024 Space Telescope Advent Calendar - A Sky Full of Stars. Open cluster Westerlund 1, some 12,000 light-years away, is a super star cluster: containing hundreds of very massive stars, some shining with a brilliance of a million Suns www.theatlantic.com/photo/2024/1...

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Day 13 of the 2024 Space Telescope Advent Calendar - A Cloud in the Deep Sky. This image featuring the central region of the Chameleon I dark molecular cloud, about 630 light years away, was taken by the James Webb Space Telescope. www.theatlantic.com/photo/2024/1...

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At the risk of earnest-posting, I wanted to share another post from my day job as photo editor. After spending a year wading through often-difficult news photos, it feels good to focus on joy, kindness, and simple pleasures. Here's my 'Hopeful Images From 2024': www.theatlantic.com/photo/2024/1...

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Day 12 of the 2024 Space Telescope Advent Calendar - A Clash of Titans. This mid-infrared image of colliding galaxies IC 2163 and NGC 2207 from the JWST shows two large luminous "eyes" at the galaxies’ cores, 80 million light-years away. www.theatlantic.com/photo/2024/1...

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Day 11 of the 2024 Space Telescope Advent Calendar - Gazing Deeply Through Time. Using the JWST, astronomers detected massive star clusters in the Cosmic Gems arc, a strongly-lensed galaxy emitting light from when the Universe was roughly 460 million years old. www.theatlantic.com/photo/2024/1...

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Day 10 of the 2024 Space Telescope Advent Calendar - The Glow of Hot, Young Stars. The James Webb Space Telescope captured this view of the galaxy I Zwicky 18, an irregular galaxy 59 million light-years away with two major starburst regions in its core. www.theatlantic.com/photo/2024/1...

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Day 9 of the 2024 Space Telescope Advent Calendar - A Dark and Dusty Galaxy. This Hubble view of NGC 1546, a galaxy about 50 million light-years away, provides good view of dust lanes from slightly above and backlit by the galaxy's core. www.theatlantic.com/photo/2024/1...

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Day 8 of the 2024 Space Telescope Advent Calendar - A Mysterious Nebula. Details of a complex structure within the Carina Nebula, about 8,000 light-years from Earth, are revealed by this image of the Keyhole Nebula, obtained by the Hubble Space Telescope. www.theatlantic.com/photo/2024/1...

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