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November 22, 2025 at 6:32 PM
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Revisiting an unusual spiral www.esa.int/ESA_Multimed...
What lies at the heart of this unusual-looking spiral galaxy? The galaxy NGC 4102, featured in this ESA/Hubble Picture of the Week, is home to what astronomers call an active galactic nucleus.
November 22, 2025 at 11:20 PM
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Extreme Auroras seen tonight over Montana. 🐴

Go out and look up tonight. It is expected to be even more bright and vivid tonight.

Red auroras occur about 125–250 miles high, green about 60–90 miles, and pink around 55–75 miles above Earth’s surface.
November 22, 2025 at 12:36 PM
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The cascading waters of Opal Creek, Oregon. #landscapes #outdoorphotography #pdxphotographer #beautifulEarth
November 23, 2025 at 5:33 AM
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Summer
Gooseberry Falls
Minnesota
November 23, 2025 at 12:28 PM
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Granite dome rises above the South Platte 🌿 #Fallback to May 22
November 22, 2025 at 2:59 PM
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Conscious love is the conscious confrontation of hate with love.

It’s basically light.
November 22, 2025 at 11:01 AM
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Egyptian rock crystal scarab.
Late Period, circa 664-332 B.C.
Private collection
November 21, 2025 at 12:34 PM
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Another plate with multiple crinoids, this one is Parisangulocrinus sp. from the lower Devonian Hunsruck slate near Bundenbach, Germany. This plate has 16 crinoids.

#FossilFriday
November 21, 2025 at 9:16 PM
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Welcome back to #fossilfriday

Here is the crinoid Arthroacantha carpenteri with a Platycerid snail attached. These snails are Coprophagous which means they ate fecal matter. The snail would attached to the anal chimney of the crinoid and would feed on the waste.

Arkona Shale
Mid Devonian
Ontario
November 22, 2025 at 2:33 AM
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Jovita Idar was a journalist & activist who fought discrimination in early 20th century Texas. She used her writing & organizing to defend Mexican American communities & expand access to education. Her voice helped shape civil rights in the borderlands.
#WomenWhoLead #WomenInSTEM
shorturl.at/REmEP
November 21, 2025 at 2:49 PM
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TODAY’S NEW HUBBLE IMAGE OF THE LOST GALAXY 🌌
November 22, 2025 at 2:40 AM
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As the first light hits the Turret Arch, the arch glows in deep golds as the whole landscape awakens. There’s something magical about watching daybreak through the ancient rock windows of Arches National Park.

#utah #arches #nationalpark #goldenhour #landscape #photography #turretarch
November 21, 2025 at 7:03 PM
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11/21/1868 — b. Martha Wollstein, American pediatric pathologist, physician. Leukemia, pneumonia, polio + tuberculosis researcher; important contributor to the study of mumps and meningitis. The first female member of the American Pediatric Society (1930) #womenshistory #WomenInSTEM #MedSky #PedsSky
November 21, 2025 at 3:25 PM
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Beautiful hike today 🤩
#Photography
#Nature
#Snowplay
November 21, 2025 at 9:13 PM
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The Leeds Arts Club: established in 1903 by the Leeds primary school teacher Alfred Orage and Holbrook Jackson, a lace merchant and freelance journalist. Promoted modernist thinking, radical thought and experimental art in Britain. Encouraged radical women and suffragettes such as Mary Gawthorpe.
November 21, 2025 at 10:46 AM
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Dr. Louella Cable | Aquatic biologist & brilliant scientific illustrator #WorldFisheriesDay

First woman hired (1927) by the US Bureau of Fisheries (later became US Fish & Wildlife). Her research + art advanced fisheries science. #WomenInSTEM #art #conservation

thefisheriesblog.com/2020/04/27/l...
November 21, 2025 at 3:03 PM
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#ForestFriday walk through the woods. Always good for the soul. Have a good Friday everyone

#EastCoastKin #scape #treescape #Autumn #Nature #LandscapePhotography
November 21, 2025 at 2:17 PM
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"Scientists have taken an exhaustive look at potential environmental causes of autism. One thing that is very clear is that vaccines are not one of those things. They do not cause autism. Period.”
www.nbcnews.com/health/healt...
Without evidence, CDC changes messaging on vaccines and autism
On Wednesday, the CDC reversed its long-held position that there's no link between vaccines and autism. "This is the day CDC died," a former agency official said.
www.nbcnews.com
November 21, 2025 at 3:17 AM
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November 21, 2025 at 1:31 PM
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Good news! 😁 Nemo survived his subadult moult! That means he only has one more moult until maturity. We're so so proud of him. He really does prove that different doesn't mean bad/negative. It means SPECIAL 😭💙 #disabledspider #jumpingspider #cutespider
November 21, 2025 at 1:11 PM
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Nice meteor west of Tucson this evening. 🔭

#meteor #tucson
November 21, 2025 at 8:28 AM
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Swedish writer Selma Lagerlöf was born #OTD in 1858.

She was the first woman to win the Nobel Prize in #Literature (1909) "in appreciation of the lofty idealism, vivid imagination & spiritual perception that characterize her writings." First woman granted a membership of the Swedish Academy, 1914.
November 20, 2025 at 6:37 PM
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#MorningVibe

Chemists in England have created a gel that can repair and regenerate tooth enamel, opening up new possibilities for effective and long-lasting dental treatment.

Funding science is a wonderful thing. www.goodnewsnetwork.org/new-gel-regr...
New Gel Regrows Dental Enamel–Which Humans Cannot Do–and Could Revolutionize Tooth Care
Enamel does not regenerate; once you lose it it's gone forever. There is currently no solution available that can effectively regrow it.
www.goodnewsnetwork.org
November 20, 2025 at 12:33 PM