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Chai Latte Nebula
@chailattenebula.bsky.social
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Master of Science graduate. Rock Collector and Enthusiast. Twitch streamer. Forever looking to the stars and lamenting my janky math skills.
"Be curious on your journey."
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chailattenebula.bsky.social
#MilfordSound #WestCoastNZ #NewZealand #mountains #mountainphotography #fjords #naturephotography #landscapephotography (Taken at Milford Sound in 2016)
A shadow of an island appears indistinct through a veil of heavy clouds and smog, rising from an expanse of open, grey water. Dark mountains dominate the image, its snowcapped peaks touching the overcast sky. Thin waterfalls trace down from peaks to the valley. A white ship with a red hull is dwarfed by majestic mountains enriched in green vegetation, little ribbons of waterfalls streaming from peak to the open water reflecting the mountains.
May 3, 2025 at 9:44 PM
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ladyjenpool.bsky.social
Hello friendos

Your librarian here with a tip

Ditch Duolingo and their AI and use your library card to access Mango or Rosetta at your library. You can also check out language CDs and DVDs, as well as books, phrase books, dictionaries and e-resources.
April 29, 2025 at 2:38 PM
chailattenebula.bsky.social
#Autumn #Fall #AutumnLeaves #photography #naturephotography
Close up of a couple of overlapping brown leaves, hinting at the season of autumn. The veins of the leaves are clearly visible, made stark by the sunlight brushing up behind the leaves. The background is heavily blurred, only a smudge of green and blue.
April 28, 2025 at 10:52 PM
chailattenebula.bsky.social
#AbelTasman #photography #shipphotography #boatphotography #sea #NewZealand (Abel Tasman, April 2025)
A boat with a tall white sail and body sails on calm ocean water, its reflection clear in the ripples. Mountains, appearing blue, rise a little into the cloudless blue sky.
April 27, 2025 at 8:32 PM
chailattenebula.bsky.social
Saw this guy sunning on a rock at the side of the road on my holiday - a nice NZ #shag #bird #birdphotography #naturephotography #photography
A close up photo of a bird's black head and long neck; it has a bright yellow bill. The background, blurred out of focus, shows rocks and strands of long grasses.
April 26, 2025 at 7:01 PM
chailattenebula.bsky.social
Was on holiday a couple weeks ago in the #AbelTasman and got a few shots of this beautiful flower in morning dew. #flower #flowers #flowerphotography #naturephotography
April 25, 2025 at 9:20 PM
chailattenebula.bsky.social
Been spending the last couple months hyperfixating on #MassEffect and readjusting to life without study (and no work, until now - a casual role, but something nonetheless). My hyperfixation on Mass Effect has even seen me naming my spider plant Chatika, after #Tali'Zorah 's drone XD
a robot with a purple helmet and a hood
ALT: a robot with a purple helmet and a hood
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April 25, 2025 at 9:19 PM
chailattenebula.bsky.social
Photo taken during an autumn sunset back in 2013 in #ChingfordPark #Dunedin #NZ #sunset #sunsetphotography #photography #trees #treephotography
Two trees cross a branch each toward each other, so it appears to mark an "x" between them. The skinny trunks, bifurcating into two (or three) branches, are softly dappled with shadows of twigs against the soft golden light of sunset on bark.
February 21, 2025 at 7:54 AM
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jwstfeed.bsky.social
Tomorrow's NASA Astronomy Picture Of the Day (APOD): baby solar system HH 30.

ESA/Webb, NASA & CSA, Tazaki et al.
A close-in image of a protoplanetary disc around a newly formed star. Many different wavelengths of light are combined and represented by separate and various colours. A dark line across the centre is the disc, corresponding to the densest parts of the disc, made of opaque dust: the star is hidden in here and creates a strong glow in the centre. A band going straight up is a jet, while other outflows above and below the disc, and a tail coming off to one side
February 18, 2025 at 8:52 PM
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spahn711.bsky.social
Despite being almost exclusively a calcite collector, this beauty will forever be one of my favorite mineral specimens.

I see it as a little malachite volcano erupting into a sea of deep blue azurite. 😍
February 19, 2025 at 2:57 AM
chailattenebula.bsky.social
An intimate study of #leaves with the #sunlight shining through them. #nature #naturephotography #leaves #leafphotography
A close up photo of the back of a leaf, showing green and orange-brown fanning away from the green central stem. Extreme close up of the back of a leaf, showing slim arcs of brown divided by thicker bands of green-brown. It reminds me, the photographer, of some of the old Voyager close-up photos of Saturn's rings.
February 19, 2025 at 5:45 AM
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February 11, 2025 at 1:48 AM
chailattenebula.bsky.social
Took this photo back in 2013, in #Dunedin #NZ #NewZealand of trees in mid-autumn, some leaves still clinging to branches letting go of their leaves. #naturephotography #treephotography #leafphotography #autumn #autumnphotography
Leaves are silhouetted against a blue, pre-dawn sky with a light swath of white clouds. The tree is partially bare of leaves, suggesting the season to be autumn.
February 10, 2025 at 11:30 PM
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jwstfeed.bsky.social
New JWST image of protostar HH 30, with legend.
🔭 🧪
A close-in image of protoplanetary disc HH 30. Parts of the image are labelled “Jet” (above and below the disc), “Conical Outflow”, “Possible Spiral”, “Dark Lane”, “Disk”, and “Tail”. A scale marker in the bottom-left is labelled “300 au”; this is a little wider than the disc itself, but less wide than the conical outflows above and below the disc
February 4, 2025 at 5:59 PM
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alastairwilliams.bsky.social
ESO has some fantastic images of comet C/2024 G3 from their observatory in Chile

🧪🔭

Credit for this one belongs to F. Millour/ESO
A bright comet seen next to the telescopes of the ESO observatory in Chile
February 3, 2025 at 4:44 PM
chailattenebula.bsky.social
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happybearcares.bsky.social Happy Bear @happybearcares.bsky.social · Feb 3
Where my Outer Wilds people at?! This is incredible
mallonum.space Mallow 🪐 @mallonum.space · Nov 17
Welcome here 🪐 I'm Mallow and I'm "slightly" into #OuterWilds!

I do 3D modeling and printing, and like to recreate everything from the game that I also sell on my shop 🛒 (I got an order from Mobius 🤯)

I'm also on Twitch where I 3D model, assemble orders and play games 🔴

All my work ⬇️🧵
February 3, 2025 at 8:10 PM
chailattenebula.bsky.social
#Fern and #morningdew taken in #Marahau #NewZealand during a... I think it was sunrise? It was 2013 when this photo was taken, so can't remember ;) #nature #naturephotography #plantphotography #ferns
February 3, 2025 at 8:47 AM
chailattenebula.bsky.social
#Chert, our beloved 🥚in #OuterWilds is named after a sedimentary rock that's primarily composed of SiO2 (silicon dioxide). youtu.be/SCGVQJS-5XY
Chert - An Apt Name
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February 3, 2025 at 2:33 AM
chailattenebula.bsky.social
#Roses with #frost on their petals, photographed in the #DunedinBotanicGardens in #Dunedin #NewZealand #NZ in 2013. #flowers #flowerphotography #naturephotography
January 31, 2025 at 12:05 AM
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A new geology bite, courtesy of #Slate in #OuterWilds, talking about this #metamorphic rock often used in things like roofing tiles. youtu.be/nRN_51eiNuA (And yes, I had to have a dig at the autopilot. Fix that schist, Slate!)
Slate - Low grade autopilot AND rock
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January 31, 2025 at 12:02 AM
chailattenebula.bsky.social
#OuterWilds delivers in more ways than one, and that includes #geology lore, courtesy of #HollowsLantern, talking about how Earth was a molten ball 4.5 billion years ago - what I'm now affectionately calling its Hollow's Lantern Phase. www.youtube.com/shorts/52Qkr...
Earth's Hollow's Lantern Phase?
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January 29, 2025 at 7:53 AM
chailattenebula.bsky.social
A gorgeous Japanese pink #camellia taken in 2013 at the #DunedinBotanicGardens in #DunedinNZ. #Nature #NaturePhotography #flowers #flowerphotography
A close up photograph of a flower with pink petals in full bloom.
January 28, 2025 at 7:41 PM
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coreyspowell.bsky.social
You've probably heard that "we are stardust," but this graphic breaks it down and tells you what kind of stars your dust came from--and which elements didn't come from stars at all. 🧪

svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/13873/
This periodic table depicts the primary source on Earth for each element: from the Big Bang, massive stars, white-dwarf supernovae, merging neutron stars, low-mass stars, or other processes. In cases where two sources contribute fairly equally, both appear.
January 28, 2025 at 7:10 PM
chailattenebula.bsky.social
This is giving me very Outer Wilds vibes and I love it ::)
stsci.edu Space Telescope Science Institute @stsci.edu · Jan 28
The dust grain: small but packed with potential.

Begin your journey as a dust grain, make choices, and unlock your destiny. Do you end up contributing to rocky planet formation? Grow into a gas giant? Adopt the dust belt lifestyle? Let us know: bit.ly/3BkBi9m 🔭 🧪
Infographic with title text “Choose Your Path: Destiny of Dust” at the top with illustrations below against a purple gradient background. At left is text that reads “Start: The adventure begins! What do you want to do?” Extending above and below are solid thin lines, signifying the different paths the viewer can take, text that describes each option, and an illustration that represents the stage. More lines, text, and illustrations stem from these choices, leading to additional questions, choices, and icons. Overall, they create a branch-like structure moving from left to right. Some of the lines are dashed arrows that signal the viewer should return to an earlier stage. The branches lead to five ultimate destinies for the dust grain.
January 28, 2025 at 7:05 PM
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Pluto and Charon
Two small round clay disks in my hand painted with acrylics to look like Pluto and Charon.
January 28, 2025 at 2:27 AM