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Jasmine 🌌🔭

@astrojaz.bsky.social

my current favorite jwst images 🌌

A star cluster is shown inside a large nebula of many-coloured gas and dust. The material forms dark ridges and peaks of gas and dust surrounding the cluster, lit on the inner side, while layers of diffuse, translucent clouds blanket over them. Around and within the gas, a huge number of distant galaxies can be seen, some quite large, as well as a few stars nearer to us which are very large and bright.

$The image is divided horizontally by an undulating line between a cloudscape forming a nebula along the bottom portion and a comparatively clear upper portion. Speckled across both portions is a starfield, showing innumerable stars of many sizes. The smallest of these are small, distant, and faint points of light. The largest of these appear larger, closer, brighter, and more fully resolved with 8-point diffraction spikes. The upper portion of the image is blueish, and has wispy translucent cloud-like streaks rising from the nebula below. The orangish cloudy formation in the bottom half varies in density and ranges from translucent to opaque. The stars vary in color, the majority of which, have a blue or orange hue. The cloud-like structure of the nebula contains ridges, peaks, and valleys – an appearance very similar to a mountain range. Three long diffraction spikes from the top right edge of the image suggest the presence of a large star just out of view.$

This image of the Ring Nebula, taken by Webb’s Near-Infrared Camera, appears as a distorted doughnut. The nebula’s inner cavity hosts shades of blue and green, while the detailed ring transitions through shades of orange in the inner regions and pink in the outer region. The ring’s inner region has distinct filament elements. Stars litter the scene, with a particularly prominent star with 8 long spikes in the top right corner.

$An infrared light echo traveling from the lower left through the upper right of the image. The image is speckled with dozens of white stars, some showing Webb’s signature 8-point diffraction spikes, against the black background of space. The image also shows tightly packed, glowing red filaments that resemble muscle fibers or wood grain.⁣$

January 19, 2025 at 3:34 AM

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Witchy Woman

@witchywomantx.bsky.social

Dear algorithm please connect me with others interested in:

✨Witchcraft
✨Herbs
✨Tarot
✨Spells
✨Magick
✨Crystals
✨Astrology
✨The moon
✨The elements
✨Paganism
✨Introverts
✨Self-care
✨Nature/forests
✨History
✨Animals
✨Occult
✨Neurodivergent
✨Chronic Illness
✨Books

January 19, 2025 at 3:46 AM

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Maxwell Frost

@maxwellfrost.bsky.social

Let’s be clear: the whole thing is a con. TikTok could’ve kept the app rolling on Sunday but by shutting down & mentioning Trump, he gets to be the savior. One of many examples of companies & billionaires bowing down.

It’s BS. But it’s also the reality. Let’s not give Trump anymore opportunities 👍🏾

January 19, 2025 at 5:01 AM

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lizzo

@lizzobeeating.bsky.social

Yall TikTok is really gone 💔

January 19, 2025 at 3:52 AM

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Josh Marshall

@joshtpm.bsky.social

might be good to remember that banning TikTok was Trump's idea in the first place

Kevin Rothrock @kevinrothrock.me · Jan 19

TikTok is fortunate for President Trump. 🙏

January 19, 2025 at 3:32 AM

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Joyce White Vance

@joycewhitevance.bsky.social

People who are upset because SCOTUS shut down TikTok but didn’t pay attention when they gave Trump broad immunity from criminal prosecution…

January 19, 2025 at 4:13 AM

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Kat Tenbarge

@kattenbarge.bsky.social

Just a reminder of some of the context around the TikTok ban: In 2020, Trump tried to ban it via executive order a couple months after K-pop fans used it to organize fake signups to Trump’s Tulsa rally, which led him to publicly overestimate how large the crowd size would be.

January 19, 2025 at 3:49 AM

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Read the book Read Raising Expectations (and Raising Hell)

@jphillll.bsky.social

RIP TikTok. It should’ve been Twitter

January 19, 2025 at 4:21 AM

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Morgan Jerkins

@mjerkins.bsky.social

I'm starting to really really love isolated vocals of famous songs. Because yes, I know Stevie Wonder and Freddie Mercury can sing.

But man, when the mic is on and the instruments are gone, you can really experience how perfect and damn near spiritual their voices are.

December 27, 2024 at 10:14 PM

skullznroses.bsky.social

@skullznroses.bsky.social

Everything I listen to classics from Whitney Houston, my heart breaks knowing that she's really gone. 😔💔

December 29, 2024 at 2:07 AM

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Being Reese

@beingreese.bsky.social

Support your local bookstores.
Support your local bookstores.
Support your local bookstores.
Support your local bookstores.
Support your local bookstores.
Support your local bookstores.
Support your local bookstores.
#BookSky #BlackBookSky ☕️📚

November 30, 2024 at 5:33 PM

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The Whimsical Muse

@whimsicalmuse.bsky.social

I don't know who needs to hear this, but if all you accomplish this weekend is reading a riveting novel cover-to-cover whilst drinking multiple kettles of tea and consuming a scandalous amount of croissants, then you will have accomplished more than enough.

November 22, 2024 at 10:10 AM

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Rosanna

@rosannaarquette.bsky.social

Buy all banned books as presents

November 22, 2024 at 9:26 AM

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Dutchess Prim

@dutchessprim.bsky.social

Period

November 21, 2024 at 12:24 PM

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Being Reese

@beingreese.bsky.social

Audiobooks count as reading.
Audiobooks count as reading.
Audiobooks count as reading.
Audiobooks count as reading.
Audiobooks count as reading.
Audiobooks count as reading.
Audiobooks count as reading.

November 22, 2024 at 12:35 PM