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January 2025 #Arctic sea ice extent was the 2nd lowest on record...

This was 1,290,000 km² below the 1981-2010 average. January ice extent is decreasing at about 2.83% per decade. Data: NSIDC (nsidc.org/data/seaice_...).
February 2, 2025 at 5:08 PM
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James Webb Space Telescope Captures Stunning Image of the Serpens Nebula. Inspired to explore the universe? Get your personalized telescope recommendations from TelescopeAdvisor using Telescope Finder Tool 👉 www.telescopeadvisor.com/telescope-fi... #Astronomy #Space #Universe #Astrophotography
The James Webb Space Telescope’s Near-Infrared Camera (NIRCam) captures the intricate filaments of gas and dust in the Serpens Nebula, a stellar nursery teeming with star formation activities. Image Credit: NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI, K. Pontoppidan (NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory), J. Green (Space Telescope Science Institute)
February 2, 2025 at 3:09 PM
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🔭 The Variable Nebula NGC 2261

Image Credit & Copyright: Tommy Lease (Denver Astronomical Society)

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The interstellar cloud of dust and gas captured in this sharp telescopic snapshot is seen to change its appearance noticeably over periods as short as a few weeks. Discovered over 200 years ago and cataloged as NGC 2261, bright star R Monocerotis lies at the tip of the fan-shaped nebula. About one light-year across and 2500 light-years away, NGC 2261 was studied early last century by astronomer Edwin Hubble and the mysterious cosmic cloud is now more famous as Hubble's Variable Nebula. So what makes Hubble's nebula vary? NGC 2261 is composed of a dusty reflection nebula fanning out from the star R Monocerotis. The leading variability explanation holds that dense knots of obscuring dust pass close to R Mon and cast moving shadows across the dust clouds in the rest of Hubble's Variable Nebula.
January 31, 2025 at 8:00 AM
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Little standing Baphoment
#crochet
November 16, 2024 at 4:32 AM
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I crocheted an anomalocaris, my fav weird shrimp from the Cambrian 🦐 pattern by katyasyarnbois
#crochet #amigurumi #anomalocaris #cambrian
Photo of a crocheted anomalocaris in blue green teal and purple taken in front some plants
November 16, 2024 at 5:56 PM