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thepinklantern.bsky.social
Sci-fi geek, physics nerd, lesbian coffee witch, failed writer, biscuit enthusiast, and socialist lefty complainer
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Our galaxy is beautiful

Last full moon of 2024

Almost a week early, Loki season 1

The WITCH HEAD NEBULA

I do astronomy for a living, and images like this *still* take my breath away. What a beautiful universe we live in. Even in the midst of trouble, grief, & anything you might be struggling with (like we all are) - try to seek out the beauty. It helps ❤️

A jellyfish galaxy adrift Credit: ESA/Hubble & NASA

Ghost Nebula, SH2-136

Baby blep! Postcard from my collection - copyright 1900, mailed 1907.

The Alpha Legion, five proxy models assembled

Witch Head Nebula captured by Nasa

So a delivery that was "handed to me" by the delivery company, who didn't, as it turned out, make a delivery because I stayed in for said delivery and it never arrived, well today it was sheepishly pushed through the letterbox

Today in 1980, John Lennon was shot and killed by an obsessed fan in New York City.

Meteor Shower and Orion in Mongolia 🇲🇳 📸 yin hao

Thank You Nicko McBrain 🙏 #IronMaiden #NickoMcBrain #metalsky @ironmaiden.bsky.social www.youtube.com/watch?v=dhN3...

Entered Whamhalla this morning thanks to an advert on YouTube

Early days, but another exciting application of vaccine technology. And a tough one for antivaxx crowd. Vaccine shows promise against aggressive breast cancer medicine.washu.edu/news/vaccine....

The next destination is the Orion Nebula.

Stephan's Quintet

Taken Under the "Wing" of the Small Magellanic Cloud

Xmas party today, was nice

This is a true 'once-in-a-lifetime shot. A meteor and Milky Way galaxy in the same frame

Finally a column about heat due to climate change not featuring a photo of people at the beach! www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

I'm a lesbian

Stunning image of Venus Credits: NASA/Jet Propulsion Laboratory-Caltech

Gluing an unbalanced tree to a base to stabilise it, working on my winter diorama now

Finished apart from chapter markings

The skull nebula Image credit:- NASA Hubble

Beowulf Blue is everything that the Highland Blue wasn't

Good morning 😊

I’ve noticed this, too. (Post by @mmpadellan.bsky.social)

Postie really emptied his sack on me today

Black undercoat, slap chop, very thin blue, will try again tomorrow once this dries

Next painting project, hopefully a quick one, paint these proxies in Crimson Fists colours...

Put together the terminator squad from my CP magazine delivery

They're donesies, base rim painted copper for effect, and they look good on my new table

Didn't post it here but knowing I was planning an orange base I put a blend on the adaptive cloak to show it reacting to the local environment

I do have the upgrade kit on order, for the shoulder transfers but worried now that I might want to paint more, I don't at least not with the method I used for the kill team, but I'm trying not to buy minis I don't need, dang it bought a Ferrus Manus proxy, help!

Luckily this book turned up the other day for some final pointers on painting

Finished/abandoned didn't paint a couple of things for the sake of my eyesight, but my Angels of Death kill team are done, apart from tidying up the edges, hoping the plague marines will be easier as I'll be using a slap chop base on them and speed paints

Latest WIP pic of my Iron Hands kill team