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Tyler Metcalf

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Jasmine 🌌🔭

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once again thinking about the fact that this is all just OUT THERE and we can only see it through the eyes of telescopes

$The background of space is black. Thousands of galaxies appear all across the view. Their shapes and colors vary. Some are various shades of orange, others are white. Most stars appear blue, and are sometimes as large as more distant galaxies that appear next to them. A very bright star is just above and left of center. It has eight bright blue, long diffraction spikes. Between 4 o’clock and 6 o’clock in its spikes are several very bright galaxies. A group of three are in the middle, and two are closer to 4 o’clock. These galaxies are part of the galaxy cluster SMACS 0723, and they are warping the appearances of galaxies seen around them. Long orange arcs appear at left and right toward the center.$ A massive cloud of gas and dust is seen in dark, dusty red, with its outer portions a translucent, ethereal gray. Several stars and distant galaxies are scattered throughout the image.

A massive cloud of gas and dust is seen in dark, dusty red, with its outer portions a translucent, ethereal gray. Several stars and distant galaxies are scattered throughout the image.

A circular-shaped nebula with a complex structure. On the circle’s exterior, particularly on the left side of the image, are curtains of material glowing orange like fire. Interior to this outer shell is a ring of mottled filaments in bright pink, studded with clumps and knots. A greenish loop extends from the upper right of the ring into the central cavity. Translucent wisps of blue, green, and red appear throughout the image.

The star cluster Pismis 24 lies within the much larger emission nebula called NGC 6357, located about 8,000 light-years from Earth. The cluster is seen here above a small portion of the nebula. The gas below the stars glows through ionization caused by intense ultraviolet radiation from the massive young stars within the cluster. The strong radiation and stellar winds from from these blazing, blue-white stars also pushes the nebular material outward, creating one of many low-density bubbles within NGC 6357.

November 13, 2024 at 6:45 PM

Tyler Metcalf

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Ok, my feed is full of politics and anti-Trump posts. Back to X... the algorithm kinda sucks on here. I want to see the weather in my feed and science and news, not politics galore...

November 14, 2024 at 3:06 AM

Tyler Metcalf

@tylerdmet.bsky.social

🎶 I can see your halo halo haloooo 🎶

A halo around the moon signifies rain is coming, and it's gonna be quite rainy tomorrow 👀 #wvwx

November 14, 2024 at 2:49 AM

Tyler Metcalf

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My kitten Stormy 🥰

November 13, 2024 at 3:24 PM

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Radley Balko

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The inconvenientest truth of all.

February 8, 2024 at 6:50 PM

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Intelliwings

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The World Meteorological Organization announced 2023 will likely be the hottest year on record, and the #ElNiño #weather pattern is expected to persist throughout the Northern Hemisphere winter until April 2024. #climatechange #globalwarming

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