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Ralf Schoofs
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In meiner Jugend haben die Mondlandungen mein Interesse für den Weltraum geweckt. Heute bin ich Künstlerin und Illustratorin. Schaut euch meine #spaceart Designs an!
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Eine Zivilisation auf einem fremden Planeten. Sind das die Lichter einer Stadt?
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🔭 Galaxies in the Furnace

Image Credit & Copyright: Simone Curzi and the ShaRA Team

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An example of violence on a cosmic scale, enormous elliptical galaxy NGC 1316 lies about 75 million light-years away toward Fornax, the southern constellation of the Furnace. Investigating the startling sight, astronomers suspect the giant galaxy of colliding with smaller neighbor NGC 1317 seen just right of the large galaxy's center, producing far flung star streams in loops and shells. Light from their close encounter would have reached Earth some 100 million years ago. In the sharp telescopic image, the central regions of NGC 1316 and NGC 1317 appear separated by over 100,000 light-years.Complex dust lanes visible within also indicate that NGC 1316 is itself the result of a merger of galaxies in the distant past. Found on the outskirts of the Fornax galaxy cluster, NGC 1316 is known as Fornax A. One of the visually brightest of the Fornax cluster galaxies it is one of the strongest and largest celestial radio sources with radio emission extending well beyond this one degree wide field-of-view.
December 4, 2025 at 8:00 AM
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Wow.
This says *everything* about the German defence debate, really.

For YEARS experts have fretted over public opinion on defence spending and how it would be impossible to justify spending over 1 or 2%. Turns out 35% (!!!!) of Germans think we’re already spending OVER 5 % of GDP. WTH.
December 7, 2025 at 9:54 AM
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Artist Christos Achilléos sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/achill... died on this day, so here's some of his artwork. 2nd for "Robot Adept" by Piers Anthony; 3rd for his collection "Medusa"; 4th Games Workshop related:
December 6, 2025 at 10:05 PM
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Today's #ArtAdventCalendar is this illustration, showing the planet Uranus seen from its closest known moon, Miranda.

#SciArt #blender
An impression of the green ice giant planet, Uranus, seen from the surface of its innermost substantial moon, the fractured Miranda. Uranus is the seventh planet in order of distance from the Sun, orbiting at an average distance of 2.85 billion km. It is unusual in that it has a very pale, almost featureless atmosphere, and an axial tilt close to 100 degrees. Miranda's odd surface - including the highest cliff in the known Solar System - suggests that the world was broken apart in a collision and later reassembled.
December 5, 2025 at 4:13 PM
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Reality Rift Deluxe editions have almost sold out. Only 5 left if you are interested and in the chance of owning one of the A3 originals of your choice.

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#conceptart #SciFi #darkshepherd #gamedev #illustration #art #digitalart #spaceships #visdev
December 6, 2025 at 11:02 AM
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🔭 The Bipolar Jets of KX Andromedae

Image Credit & Copyright: Tim Schaeffer and the Deep Sky Collective

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Blasting outward from variable star KX Andromedae, these stunning bipolar jets are 19 light-years long. Recently discovered, they are revealed in unprecedented detail in this deep telescopic image centered on KX And and composed from over 692 hours of combined image data. In fact, KX And is spectroscopically found to be an interacting binary star system consisting of a bright, hot B-type star with a swollen cool giant star as its co-orbiting, close companion. The stellar material from the cool giant star is likely being transferred to the hot B-type star through an accretion disk, with spectacular symmetric jets driven outward perpendicular to the disk itself. The known distance to KX And of 2,500 light-years, angular size of the jets, and estimated inclination of the accretion disk lead to the size estimate for each jet of an astonishing 19 light-years.
December 5, 2025 at 8:00 AM
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Satellitensystem für Diebstahlschutz legt Porsches in Russland lahm. (Ich hätte dazu Ideen, aber keinen Beleg...)
Why Did Hundreds of Porsches in Russia Suddenly Shut Down?
Imagine waking up Monday morning, coffee in hand (they drink that in Russia, right?), ready to fire up your beloved Porsche — only to discover it’s transformed into a very expensive lawn ornament. Tha...
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December 3, 2025 at 7:15 PM
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From NASA: The Perseverance rover has recorded the sounds of electrical sparks and mini-sonic booms in dust devils on Mars. 🌪️⚡️

Long theorized, the phenomenon has now been confirmed through audio and electromagnetic recordings captured by the rover. Listen in: go.nasa.gov/4ow4612
NASA Rover Detects Electric Sparks in Mars Dust Devils, Storms - NASA
Perseverance confirmed a long-suspected phenomenon in which electrical discharges and their associated shock waves can be born within Red Planet mini-twisters.
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December 4, 2025 at 3:35 AM
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Today I learned that NASA has a collection of free ebooks that can be downloaded as pdfs or ebub format.

The science books even include a children’s section with fun activites and coloring books!

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Science e-Books - NASA Science
From Earth and the other planets in our solar system, to supermassive black holes and the distant galaxies that contain them, explore NASA science and imagery through our library of e-books.
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December 4, 2025 at 2:43 PM
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US national security strategy.
Something sure is unrecognisable here, but it’s not Europe.

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But this economic decline is eclipsed by the real and more stark prospect of civilizational erasure. The larger issues facing Europe include activities of the European Union and other transnational bodies that undermine political liberty and sovereignty, migration policies that are transforming the continent and creating strife, censorship of free speech and suppression of political opposition, cratering birthrates, and loss of national identities and self-confidence. Should present trends continue, the continent will be unrecognizable in 20 years or less. As such, it is far from obvious whether certain European countries will have economies and militaries strong enough to remain reliable allies. Many of these nations are currently doubling down on their present path. We want Europe to remain European, to regain its civilizational self-confidence, and to abandon its failed focus on regulatory suffocation
December 5, 2025 at 5:06 AM
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#ArtAdventCalendar #SciArt

Proxima is the nearest star to the Sun. It is a red dwarf, 1/5 the size of our Sun and 20,000 times dimmer. Here we see it seen from the surface of one of its planets. To the left one can also make out Alpha Centauri, which is a binary star with two Sun-like components.
Illustration of the star Proxima Centauri seen from one of its planets. The landscape is rocky and barren aside from a lake. Proxima is a flare star with a powerful magnetic field, leading to the formation of aurorae in the sky. Artwork created in Blender by Mark A Garlick.
December 2, 2025 at 10:02 AM
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#ArtAdventCalendar #SciArt Artwork of the gas-giant exoplanet HD209458b, also known as Osiris. It orbits its star in just 3.5 days at only 1/8 of the Mercury-Sun distance, and is gradually being evaporated away. The system lies 159 light-years away in the constellation Pegasus.
This is an artwork of a gas-giant exoplanet that orbits so close to its star that its atmosphere is being stripped away by the star's fierce ultraviolet flux. The planet goes by the catalogue name of HD 209458b, and is also known as Osiris. Osiris orbits its star at only one-eighth of the Mercury-Sun distance, with a period of 3.5 days, and has an estimated surface temperature of around 1000 degrees Celsius. The system lies 159 light-years away in the constellation Pegasus.
December 4, 2025 at 11:15 AM
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The profession of arms derives legitimacy from the system it serves. What happens when that system changes?
The Soldier in the Illiberal State is a Professional Dead End
The American political system today is indeed in crisis. Government function is in doubt, the administration has politicized and weaponized a previously
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December 3, 2025 at 5:45 PM
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Marco Patrito, 1986
A six-legged lizard watches as a sci-fi vehicle zooms across a desert, hovering a foot above the sand.
December 1, 2025 at 9:37 PM
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Die Bundeswehr hat heute am Standort Schönewalde mit dem Arrow-Luftverteidigungssystem (AWS-G: Arrow Weapon System – Germany) die sogenannte Anfangsbefähigung erreicht.

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Raketenabwehrsystem Arrow erreicht Anfangsbefähigung
Die Bundeswehr hat heute am Standort Schönewalde mit dem Arrow-Luftverteidigungssystem (AWS-G: Arrow Weapon System - Germany) die sogenannte Anfangsbefähigung
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December 3, 2025 at 4:37 PM
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Bob Haberfield's cover art detail for Blast Off: S.F. for Boys, ed. Harry Harrison (1969)
#scifi #sciencefiction #art
Cover illustrates, in surreal strokes, the blast off of a rocket. The smoke is rendered as tight clumps of circles. There is also an arching fire rendered as concentric circles behind and below the blast off radius.
November 30, 2025 at 2:56 PM
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Art by Ron Miller for Eternity by Greg Bear (1988)
November 29, 2025 at 11:27 PM
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Für diejenigen hier bei bluesky, die meine Darstellung in Zweifel gezogen haben. Vielleicht vertrauen sie ja dem Reporter der Tagesschau.
December 1, 2025 at 8:19 PM
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The German interior minister has inaugurated today a new unit of the federal police in charge of drone countermeasures.

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Aufspüren – Abwehren – Abfangen: Bundesinnenminister Dobrindt stellt Drohnenabwehreinheit der Bundespolizei in Dienst
Spezialkräfte der Bundespolizei werden deutschlandweit Drohnen smart und mit neuester Technik abwehren. Parallel werden Flughäfen zur Drohnenabwehr ertüchtigt.
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December 2, 2025 at 2:49 PM
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If there was a reboot of this series today it would have to be titled “The 43.8 Million Dollar Man”
December 2, 2025 at 8:38 PM
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🌎 2025
🗓 1st - 2nd December
🕤 21:30Z
🛰 GOES18
December 2, 2025 at 11:35 PM
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While you are waiting for Dark Shepherd 2, Reality Rift, to become available, if you are, here's a teaser image for book three.

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#DarkShepherd #book #writing #concept #SciFi #illustration #art #digitalart #spaceships #visdev
Breel stands before a shadowy mech.
December 3, 2025 at 4:57 PM
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Haushaltslücken: Entgangene Milliarden
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Haushaltslücken: Entgangene Milliarden
Es gehört zu den Absurditäten im Waffenrecht, dass die Kommunen jährlich auf immense Einnahmen verzichten – und damit die Bevölkerung gefährden
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December 3, 2025 at 6:08 PM
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🔭 Visualization: Near a Black Hole and Disk

Illustration Credit: NASA's GSFC, J. Schnittman & B. Powell; Text: Francis Reddy (U. Maryland, NASA's GSFC)

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The illustration shows a structured orange band stretching horizontally across the imager. Connected in the middle is the Milky Way Galaxy curving up to the top of the frame. A second image of the orange band runs like a sine wave across the lower half of the frame, while a second image of the Milky Way galaxy appears just above it. Please see the explanation for more detailed information.
December 3, 2025 at 8:00 AM
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Bild des Monats: Blaue Berge
Eine Zivilisation auf einem fremden Planeten. Sind das die Lichter einer Stadt?
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December 3, 2025 at 2:40 PM