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Reporter: NBC is here on the right

Kennedy: That’s an unusual position

Reporter: I don’t get it

Kennedy: You wouldn’t
January 1, 2025 at 8:16 PM
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Dutch avant-garde artist Jacoba Heemskerck van Beest, Komposition, 1912 #womensart
Painting featuring a stylised landscape of trees in front of a blue sky and sun with exaggerated angular and curved lines and bold blacks of colour.
December 30, 2024 at 12:41 PM
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The devastation on its way is unimaginable - like nothing humanity has ever witnessed before - and everyone will wish they had been climate activists and ‘hysterics’ when they had the chance. We are in a moment of unprecedented stupidity
December 22, 2024 at 1:41 PM
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NGC 6302: The "Butterfly Nebula"
Credit:NASA
Hubble was recently retrained on NGC 6302, known as the "Butterfly Nebula," to observe it across a more complete spectrum of light, from near-ultraviolet to near-infrared, helping researchers better understand the mechanics at work in its technicolor "wings" of gas. The observations highlight a new pattern of near-infrared emission from singly ionized iron, which traces an S shape from lower left to upper right. This iron emission likely traces the central star system’s most recent ejections of gas, which are moving at much faster speeds than the previously expelled mass. The star or stars at its center are responsible for the nebula's appearance. In their death throes, they have cast off layers of gas periodically over the past couple thousand years. The "wings" of NGC 6302 are regions of gas heated to more than 36,000 degrees Fahrenheit that are tearing across space at more than 600,000 miles an hour. NGC 6302 lies between 2,500 and 3,800 light-years away in the constellation Scorpius.
December 3, 2024 at 9:15 PM
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this is a combined view of the hubble and webb views of the ring nebula and oh my god it’s SO beautiful 🌌
The Ring Nebula (M57), is more complicated than it appears through a small telescope. The easily visible central ring is about one light-year across, but this remarkable combined exposure by the James Webb Space Telescope and the Hubble Space Telescope explores this popular nebula with deep exposures in visible and infrared light. Strings of gas, like eyelashes around a cosmic eye, become evident around the Ring in this digitally enhanced featured image in assigned colors. These long filaments may be caused by shadowing of knots of dense gas in the ring from energetic light emitted within.
December 4, 2024 at 12:09 AM