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Laird Mick Hail (Kos)
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Designated as MickBot | He/They | Garbage, Goodbye Mr Mackenzie, Bis, La Roux | captain Deacon Brodie on the Sea of Thieves
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Forget spending $8,500 on a new Macbook Pro; I'm buying myself a TANDY.
A vintage computer advertisement from 1989 showing a Tandy 5000 MC Professional System. The image shows a CRT monitor displaying 'PageMaker' software and a computer setup. The system is priced at $8,499.00 and advertises features including a 20 MHz Intel 80386 Microprocessor, VGA Graphics, and 2 MB RAM with 16 MB capacity. The ad notes that the monitor and mouse are not included. The product description emphasizes it as their most powerful computer with MS-DOS 3.3 compatibility and various ports included.
January 22, 2025 at 11:19 PM
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jessiejuwono.com
So we rebuilt our backyard wall (it blew down in the wind 2 weeks ago) & decided it was finally time to get rid of some sheds & finally unveil some historic art that had been hidden in our backyard (probably 20+ years, unsure)…
May I present to you …
Graffiti of Kirby smoking a joint. 🩷
Graffiti on a brick wall of Kirby smoking a joint
January 22, 2025 at 3:11 AM
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moonshinegnomie.bsky.social
a nebula and a galaxy
the nebula is M97 the owl nebula.
the galaxy is M108, also called the surfboard galaxy.
both objects are in the constellation ursa major home of the big dipper

shot in my backyard

#astrophotography

#photograohy
January 23, 2025 at 4:51 AM
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drnereide.bsky.social
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For those who missed it, this recent image from Webb's NIRCam features a part of the Leo P dwarf galaxy (the blue stars at lower right) along with countless other galaxies in the background.

Reference➡️ esawebb.org/images/LeoP/

A team's research, done

🔭 🧪 #extragalactic #Webb #JWST
This image from Webb's NIRCam features a portion of the Leo P dwarf galaxy (the blue stars at lower right) along with countless other galaxies in the background.
January 22, 2025 at 12:47 PM
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hourlycosmos.bsky.social
Pismis 24 and NGC 6357 - From Rolf Wahl Olsen - https://flic.kr/p/cBrfZ9
This image covers the central part of the large nebula NGC 6357, also known as the 'Lobster' or 'War and Peace' nebula. The nebula itself appears intensely red, a striking contrast to most emission nebulae which are somewhat more magenta. At the center of the nebula lies a small star cluster Pismis 24 which contain some of the heaviest stars known. The intense ultraviolet radiation from these stars is slowly eroding the surrounding gas and dust away and shaping the delicate structures visible throughout the region. The heaviest of these stars, designated Pismis 24-1, was long thought to weigh some 200 to 300 solar masses, well in excess of the theoretical upper mass limit of about 150 solar masses for an individual star. But in 2006 high-resolution images taken with the Hubble Space Telescope showed that Pismis 24-1 is really two stars orbiting one another. Further to this, ground-based spectroscopic studies have revealed one of the stars to be a tight binary. Still, these three stars are among the heaviest known. The cluster and nebula lies 8000 light years away in the constellation Scorpius. Click here to see a high-resolution comparison of Pismis 24 with images from La Silla and the Hubble Space Telescope. Image details: Date: 7th, 8th, 10th and 17th July 2012 Exposure: LRGB: 340:50:42:46m, total 7hrs 58mins @ -30C Telescope: 10" Serrurier Truss Newtonian f/5 Camera: QSI 683wsg with Lodestar guider Filters: Astrodon LRGB E-Series Gen 2 Taken from my observ...
January 23, 2025 at 3:00 AM
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kevinmgill.bsky.social
Stars like diamonds!

A look towards the Milky Way center, processed from imagery taken by JWST.

flic.kr/p/2nAJYP4
A bunch of blue and red stars. NASA/ESA/CSA/Dr. Erin Smith (PI)/Kevin M. Gill
January 22, 2025 at 1:32 AM
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mrjfuk.bsky.social
For my friends in the USA: I like to think the M16 nebula could be a metaphor for the true fabric of the USA. M16 is a large nebula in the shape of a formidable Eagle - at its heart are the famous Pillars of Creation.
Image is 5 hours, (60x5mins stack) on a 130mm refractor, processed in Pixinsight.
January 22, 2025 at 7:33 PM
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astrojaz.bsky.social
another timeline cleanse from all the doom and gloom 🌌
Image of a large galaxy on the right, with two smaller companion galaxies to the left. The large galaxy is ring-shaped, with an oval outer ring, and a small, off-center oval inner ring. The rings and space between are lit with blue plumes and dots. The companion galaxies to the left, one above the other, are much smaller than the main galaxy, and about the same size as each other. The galaxy above has similar coloring and many of the same features as the large ring galaxy, but more of a disturbed s-shape, with no distinct rings. The galaxy below is brighter with a whiter tinge. It has a diffuse spiral shape with a white core similar to that of the ring galaxy, but with a smoother texture. The background is full of more distant, orange-red colored galaxies of various shapes and sizes. At the center of the image is a horizontal orange cloud known as Herbig-Haro 46/47 that is uneven with rounded ends, and tilted from bottom left to top right. In the middle of this cloud is a yellow-white blob with 8 reddish pink diffraction spikes piercing through it. The left lobe of the cloud is thicker. Just off the edge is a tiny red arc that curves in the opposite direction. The right lobe is thinner, and ends in a smaller orange semi-circle that has a faint purple outline. Just off the edge of this lobe is a slightly smaller orange sponge-like blob. A delicate, semi-transparent blue cloud known as a nebula drifts toward the top of the image and peters out toward the left of the frame. Toward the right and bottom, the nebula ends in a soft ridge set off in a translucent orange. The background is filled with stars and galaxies. Two foreground stars with blue diffraction spikes, seen in the bottom right corner, are especially prominent. A field of galaxies on the black background of space. In the middle is a collection of dozens of yellowish galaxies that form a foreground galaxy cluster. Among them are distorted linear features, which mostly appear to follow invisible concentric circles curving around the center of the image. The linear features are created when the light of a background galaxy is bent and magnified through an effect called gravitational lensing. A variety of brightly colored, red and blue galaxies of various shapes are scattered across the image, making it feel densely populated. Red dual opposing jets coming from young stars fill the darker top half of the image. At bottom center is a glowing pale yellow, cave-like structure, its top tilted toward two o’clock, with a bright star at its center. The dust of the cave structure becomes wispy toward eight o’clock. Above the arched top of the dust cave, 3 groupings of stars with diffraction spikes are arranged. A dark cloud sits at the top of the arch of the glowing dust cave, with one streamer curling down the right-hand side. The dark shadow of the cloud appears pinched in the center, with light emerging in a triangle shape above and below the pinch, revealing the presence of a star inside the cloud. The largest jets of red material emanate from within this dark cloud, thick and displaying structure like the rough face of a cliff, glowing brighter at the edges. At top center, a star displays another, larger pinched dark shadow, this time vertically. To the left of this star is a more wispy, indistinct region.
January 23, 2025 at 6:07 AM
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January 22, 2025 at 4:40 PM