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The Maltese Ptarmigan

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Writer. Filmmaker. Will-o’-the-wisp.
Professor. Poet. WGAw.

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The Maltese Ptarmigan @malteseptarmigan.bsky.social · Nov 16

Thus far, one of my favorite parts of coming here is that I’ve learned so much about embroidery and nebulae.

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'Twisting and turning' by UK textile artist Rachel Wright, machine embroidered #WomensArt

Textile artwork featuring two birds in flight, flring right, against a swirling sky

May 22, 2025 at 6:06 AM

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Animation Obsessive

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From: The Little Mermaid (1968), dir. Ivan Aksenchuk, Soyuzmultfilm

May 16, 2025 at 10:33 PM

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Jasmine 🌌🔭

@astrojaz.bsky.social

i need some space… and maybe you do too

A massive spiral galaxy fills the image, with its bright yellow core seen near the upper left. Spiral arms whirl outward, laced through with dark brown dust and bright blue patches of star formation.

Angled from the upper left corner to the lower right corner is a cone-shaped orange-red cloud known as Herbig-Haro 49/50. This feature takes up about three-fourths of the length of this angle. The upper left end of this feature has a translucent, rounded end. The conical feature widens slightly from the rounded end at the upper right down to the lower right. Along the cone there are additional rounded edges, like edges of a wave, and intricate foamy-like details, as well as a clearer view of the black background of space. In the upper left, overlapping with the rounded end of Herbig-Haro 49/50, is a background spiral galaxy with a concentrated blue center that fades outward to blend with red spiral arms. The background of space is speckled with some white stars and smaller, more numerous, fainter white galaxies throughout.

$A densely packed cluster of yellow stars shines at the center of the image, with more stars scattered throughout. Clouds of glowing indigo gas and dust dominate the lower half of the view, and a red star with diffraction spikes shines at upper right.$

A nebula made up of cloudy gas and dust in the form of soft and wispy clouds and, in the center, thin and highly detailed layers pressed close together. Large, bright stars surrounded by six long points of light are dotted over the image, as well as some small, point-like stars embedded in the clouds. The clouds are lit up in blue close to the stars; orange colors show clouds that glow in infrared light.

April 18, 2025 at 2:31 AM

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womensartbluesky.bsky.social

@womensartbluesky.bsky.social

'Fox, on the way to a fox’s wedding'- Watercolour and white gold by Jackie Morris, contemporary artist, author and illustrator who lives and works in a small cottage by the sea in Wales #WomensArt

Painting of an upright red fox walking to the right carrying a parasol all against a silver background

April 3, 2025 at 8:23 AM

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Jasmine 🌌🔭

@astrojaz.bsky.social

NEW COMPOSITE IMAGE OF THE TARANTULA NEBULA FROM CHANDRA, HUBBLE, AND ALMA!!! 🌌

This is a highly detailed composite image of a star-forming region of space known as 30 Doradus, shaped like a bouquet, or a maple leaf.

X-ray wind and gas takes the shape of a massive purple and pink bouquet with an extended central flower, or perhaps a leaf from a maple tree. The hazy, mottled shape occupies much of the image, positioned just to our left of center, tilted slightly to our left. Inside the purple and pink gas and wind cloud are red and orange veins, and pockets of bright white light. The red and orange veins represent energy ejected by supernovas, carried on cosmically strong winds. The pockets of white light represent clusters of young stars. One cluster at the heart of 30 Doradus houses the most massive stars astronomers have ever found.

The hazy purple and pink bouquet is surrounded by glowing dots of green, white, orange, and red.

February 12, 2025 at 5:27 PM

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Jwst Feed

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V838.
Each color shows the passage of time. As the bright flash of light left the star, it illuminated the dust surrounding it, but because space is so big, we actually see the light travelling and illuminating the dust as it goes along.
By Judy Schmidt.
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A breathtaking image of V838 Monocerotis, a red giant star that mysteriously brightened dramatically in 2002. The nebula surrounding the star is a result of this outburst, showcasing a complex interplay of colors and textures as the star's light interacts with the surrounding gas and dust.

January 25, 2025 at 4:10 PM

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Universe

@wholethings.bsky.social

The WITCH HEAD NEBULA

December 15, 2024 at 12:03 PM

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Megan 🪡

@ohnomegan.bsky.social

He’s finished! I love embroidering a tabby. 🪡 🧵

December 2, 2024 at 5:05 AM

The Maltese Ptarmigan

@malteseptarmigan.bsky.social

Cosmos without, cosmos within…

Dr Lindsey Fitzharris @drlindseyfitz.bsky.social · Nov 26

Blood vessels in a pigeon’s head. It was captured by the veterinarian Scott Echols as part of an ongoing endeavour known as the Grey Parrot Anatomy Project, which aims to develop ways to aid diagnosis and treatment for a host of animals, from birds to humans. #sciart

An image of all the blood vessels in a pigeon's head and neck. The vessels are neon red - glowing. This image won the Wellcome Award in 2017.

November 26, 2024 at 6:18 PM

The Maltese Ptarmigan

@malteseptarmigan.bsky.social

I don’t know what’s going on with me, but I can not get enough of this kind of imagery. This is full on, but the post-Hubble Webb images have changed my brain.