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A self-portrait, photographed in my (literal) backyard here on Prince Edward Island, on one of the most magical nights I’ve ever experienced.

#pei #astrophotography #naturephotography

February 2, 2025 at 2:00 PM

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feef

@feefal.bsky.social

Tamagotchi - now biblically accurate!

February 2, 2025 at 3:46 PM

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🌊Sandy #GunReformNow

@cynthiaharless.bsky.social

America is being dismantled and destroyed by Robber Baron Brown Shirts!

No one is coming to save us!

We must stand United and fight them at every turn!

Pass it on!

February 1, 2025 at 9:25 PM

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Jwst Feed

@jwstfeed.bsky.social

N44.
Located in the Large Magellanic Cloud, N44 nebula is approximately 1,000 light-years wide and 160,000-170,000 light-years distant.
It is an emission nebula with superbubble structure.
Hubble data processing: @thocarp.bsky.social
www.flickr.com/photos/19746...
🔭 🧪

This Hubble Space Telescope image captures N44, a star-forming region in the Large Magellanic Cloud. The image shows a multicolored cloud of gas and dust, sculpted by stellar winds and radiation, with bright stars shining within the dark, obscuring material. (Provides context and specific details)

February 1, 2025 at 5:00 PM

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Space Weather by SolarHam

@solarham.bsky.social

Solar activity increases even further this morning with a rapid M5.1 solar flare detected around AR 3977 at 14:04 UTC (Feb 2). Image by SDO/AIA. Stay tuned as additional, potentially stronger solar flares appear to be possible.

February 2, 2025 at 2:18 PM

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Whitney Alese

@thereclaimed.bsky.social

Happy:
Black history
Black present
Black future
Black love
Black joy
Black health
Black healing
Black people
Black community
Black family
Black kids
Black culture
Black creativity
Black ingenuity
Black legacy
Black innovation
Black liberation
Black resistance
Black existence
...month🖤

February 1, 2025 at 2:02 PM

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Papa Woof und Krampus und Bleaken

@papawoof.bsky.social

February 2, 2025 at 4:11 AM

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kháris 📚📖

@kharisology.bsky.social

vacay nails
+2 charisma
+1d4 of piercing or slashing damage

February 1, 2025 at 11:47 PM

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burnt undertones

@burntundertones.bsky.social

February 2, 2025 at 7:25 AM

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Retro Blast 💫

@retroblastpod.com

The Nintendo Game Cube is a console that I've always loved. I got one on Christmas of 2001 and was surprised that most of my friends got a PS2 or XBOX instead. How COULD they? 😅

So yea, it wasn't exactly the most popular in its day, but I'm glad it gets more love in the Retro Gaming community now!

February 2, 2025 at 12:25 AM

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J. L. Westover

@mrlovenstein.bsky.social

living nightmare

February 2, 2025 at 2:54 PM

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Moon lover

@moon1over.bsky.social

February 2, 2025 at 2:27 AM

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Moon lover

@moon1over.bsky.social

February 1, 2025 at 4:32 PM

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Jwst Feed

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Iconic Pillars of Creation.
MIRI + NIRCam composite image.
🔭 🧪

Semi-opaque layers of blue, purple, and grey gas and dust start at the bottom left and rise toward the top right. There are three prominent pillars. The left pillar is the largest and widest. The background is orange near the top and dark blue and purple near the bottom. Some blue and white stars dot the overall scene.

February 1, 2025 at 8:11 PM

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Space

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A close-up view of Jupiter’s famous Great Red Spot

Credit:NASA

January 23, 2025 at 12:21 PM

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Jasmine 🌌🔭

@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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Saganism

@sagan.bsky.social

Every star may be a sun to someone.

~ Carl Sagan, Cosmos

January 23, 2025 at 5:20 PM

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