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Image of Arp 78, also known as NGC 772 and NGC 770, from Halton Arp's Atlas of Peculiar Galaxies (1966).

In the original catalog it was in the category: Spiral galaxies - Small, high surface brightness companions.
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A grainy, black and white image of a nearly face-on spiral galaxy. Appearing somewhat like an aerial view of a hurricane, the galaxy's spiral arms swirl around a bright center. The curling arms are defined by dark dust lanes. While the arms in the right half of the galaxy are somewhat poorly defined, in the left of the galaxy, one overdeveloped spiral arm curves clockwise from about 6 o'clock to about 11 o'clock. Since this arm flattens out near its end, in contrast to the rounder right half, the overall shape of the galaxy resembles a paisley. To its right, near the center, is its small companion galaxy, seen as a fuzzy oval. The black background of space is filled with many white dots which are stars.
November 24, 2025 at 12:31 PM
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A spiral galaxy, observed with the Hubble Space Telescope in the GEMS survey.

It is at redshift 0.62 (lookback time 6.02 billion years) with coordinates (52.91710, -27.59564).

107 volunteers classified this galaxy in Galaxy Zoo: Hubble.
A spiral galaxy from the Galaxy Zoo: Hubble project, classified by 107 volunteers.
November 21, 2025 at 9:20 AM
rootbeard90.bsky.social
It's not weird at all actually
November 18, 2025 at 1:59 AM
rootbeard90.bsky.social
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Wikipedia and the Destruction of Trust
YouTube video by Hank Green
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November 17, 2025 at 5:38 AM
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A spiral galaxy in a merger, observed with the Hubble Space Telescope in the COSMOS survey.

It is at redshift 0.83 (lookback time 7.19 billion years) with coordinates (150.26510, 2.33695).

35 volunteers classified this galaxy in Galaxy Zoo: Hubble.
A spiral galaxy in a merger from the Galaxy Zoo: Hubble project, classified by 35 volunteers.
November 9, 2025 at 5:14 PM
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A spiral galaxy, observed with the Apache Point 2.5m Telescope in the SDSS survey.

It is at redshift 0.028 (lookback time 397.0 million years) with coordinates (240.10034, 52.89952).

44 volunteers classified this galaxy in Galaxy Zoo 2.
A spiral galaxy from the Galaxy Zoo 2 project, classified by 44 volunteers.
November 8, 2025 at 8:18 PM
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A spiral galaxy, observed with the Apache Point 2.5m Telescope in the SDSS survey.

It is at redshift 0.018 (lookback time 257.3 million years) with coordinates (136.99294, 41.70893).

37 volunteers classified this galaxy in Galaxy Zoo 2.
A spiral galaxy from the Galaxy Zoo 2 project, classified by 37 volunteers.
November 7, 2025 at 6:26 PM
rootbeard90.bsky.social
I wish for an Arcanum remake or sequel
November 6, 2025 at 6:11 PM
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cerberusxt.bsky.social
Good morning Bluesky !
November 1, 2025 at 7:20 AM
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SPOOKY SPACE PICTURES FOR HALLOWEEN 🎃🌌
As the name implies, this reflection nebula associated with the star Rigel looks suspiciously like a fairytale crone. Formally known as IC 2118 in the constellation Orion, the Witch Head Nebula glows primarily by light reflected from the star. The color of this very blue nebula is caused not only by blue color of its star, but also because the dust grains reflect blue light more efficiently than red. A similar physical process causes Earth's daytime sky to appear blue. A composite image of a pulsar wind nebula which strongly resembles a ghostly purple hand with sparkling fingertips, set against a black, starry backdrop. X-ray observations by Chandra and IXPE reveal that the shape of this pulsar wind nebula strongly resembles a human hand, including five fingers, a palm and wrist. The bright white spot near the base of the palm is the pulsar itself. The three longest fingertips of the hand-shape point toward our upper right, or 1:00 on a clock face. There, a small, mottled, orange and yellow cloud appears to sparkle or glow like embers. This orange cloud is part of the remains of the supernova explosion that created the pulsar. The backdrop of stars was captured in infrared light. Credits: X-ray: NASA/CXC/Stanford Univ./R. Romani et al. (Chandra); NASA/MSFC (IXPE); Infrared: NASA/JPL-Caltech/DECaPS; Image Processing: NASA/CXC/SAO/J. Schmidt A nebula appearing like a “face” with two “eyes” visible in the center. Active regions on the sun combined to look something like a jack-o-lantern’s face. The active regions in this image appear brighter because those are areas that emit more light and energy. They are markers of an intense and complex set of magnetic fields hovering in the sun’s atmosphere, the corona. Caption credit: NASA
November 1, 2025 at 12:55 AM
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An irregular galaxy, observed with the Hubble Space Telescope in the COSMOS survey.

It is at redshift 0.81 (lookback time 7.09 billion years) with coordinates (150.42292, 2.58324).

53 volunteers classified this galaxy in Galaxy Zoo: Hubble.
A irregular galaxy from the Galaxy Zoo: Hubble project, classified by 53 volunteers.
October 23, 2025 at 8:20 PM
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A spiral galaxy, observed with the Hubble Space Telescope in the COSMOS survey.

It is at redshift 1.25 (lookback time 8.84 billion years) with coordinates (150.28906, 2.15019).

53 volunteers classified this galaxy in Galaxy Zoo: Hubble.
A spiral galaxy from the Galaxy Zoo: Hubble project, classified by 53 volunteers.
October 22, 2025 at 7:18 AM
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A spiral galaxy, observed with the Hubble Space Telescope in the GEMS survey.

It is at redshift 0.81 (lookback time 7.09 billion years) with coordinates (52.91166, -27.57428).

126 volunteers classified this galaxy in Galaxy Zoo: Hubble.
A spiral galaxy from the Galaxy Zoo: Hubble project, classified by 126 volunteers.
October 10, 2025 at 6:26 PM
rootbeard90.bsky.social
You know, you see images like this and sometimes it's easy to forget just how incredible it is that we can observe these objects at all. Like, that shit is UNFATHOMABLY far away. And we get to see it. And it's also UNFATHOMABLY huge, and yet looks so tiny. The universe is incredible

Ps I'm stoned
allthegalaxies.galaxyzoo.org All the Galaxies! @allthegalaxies.galaxyzoo.org · Sep 15
A spiral galaxy, observed with the Hubble Space Telescope in the COSMOS survey.

It is at redshift 0.57 (lookback time 5.70 billion years) with coordinates (150.02251, 1.87563).

48 volunteers classified this galaxy in Galaxy Zoo: Hubble.
A spiral galaxy from the Galaxy Zoo: Hubble project, classified by 48 volunteers.
September 15, 2025 at 8:45 AM
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April 17, 2025 at 9:11 PM
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April 6, 2025 at 9:33 PM
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samvydav24.bsky.social
The whole premise of the Biden administration after the chaos of Trump 1.0 was that Biden would be boring and we could move on with our lives. Well, I guess (the collective) we got bored with basic, competent governance after 4 years.
April 4, 2025 at 1:08 PM
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on the reddit:
"They called him sleepy Joe because you could sleep without worrying about your portfolio"
April 4, 2025 at 6:40 PM
rootbeard90.bsky.social
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Trump’s HORRIFIC Day 1 Executive Orders | The Kyle Kulinski Show
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January 21, 2025 at 8:53 PM
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asteroidproject.bsky.social
NGC 1566, a beautiful face-on spiral galaxy in Dorado, 69,000,000 light years away. December 19th 2024 #astrophotography
December 25, 2024 at 1:12 PM
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lastpositivist.bsky.social
A British pensioner whose bland sandwiches gained him unexpected fame in China has died. Keith Brown, a retired engineer known on Chinese social media as "Old Dry Keith", became a hit when his Chinese wife Zhang Jian began to post videos of him assembling the ham and cheese sandwiches he liked to eat. Chinese observers were grimly fascinated by his dry, boring sandwiches, and his gentle, stoic manner - and he built up a cult following. "We go from questioning the dry old man, to understanding the dry old man, to becoming the dry old man," observed one cultural commentator. "The old man is us, and his dry lunch is our dry life."
November 18, 2024 at 5:33 AM
rootbeard90.bsky.social
Yo what up
November 17, 2024 at 2:00 AM
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lemonmanx.bsky.social
Should Nintendo Music be better than it is and also credit the composers? Yes.

Have I still been using it to listen to Donkey Kong Country 1 and 2's soundtracks on repeat? Also yes.
November 13, 2024 at 1:56 AM
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November 13, 2024 at 9:05 AM