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Zax

@zaxman.gay

I see the internet decided to not exist again today

November 18, 2025 at 1:36 PM

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ducc

@ducc.bsky.social

I need to make $2000 AUD ( 1200 USD ) to cover bond and 1 week of rent, so my commissions are open for 3D modeling and art.

I know I already owe some art I am working really hard to get through it all this week 😭

If anyone needs hair, clothing assets etc please hmu 😩😔

November 18, 2025 at 1:30 AM

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EarthSky

@earthskyscience.bsky.social

California #nebula in #Perseus ... Andy Dungan captured this view of the #Californianebula from near Cotopaxi, Colorado, on Saturday. Thank you, Andy! 🌌🔭📸
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Go to EarthSky Community Photos to see more great images, and submit your own recent photos: 
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Long, wispy cloud-like formation in space, with bright bluish star to its right.

November 18, 2025 at 1:00 AM

Zax

@zaxman.gay

headache :(

November 17, 2025 at 12:45 PM

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Astronomy Picture of the Day 🪐

@apod.shinyakato.dev

🔭 Comet Lemmon's Wandering Tail

Image Credit: Ignacio Fernández

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A starfield is shown above a mountain peak. Just above the mountain and extending up toward the upper right is a blue-tinted tail of a comet. The comet's head is just to the left of the peak. Please see the explanation for more detailed information.

November 17, 2025 at 8:00 AM

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Lillikoifish

@lillikoifish.bsky.social

YOU GUYS WANNA SEE SOMETHING CURSED???? HOW ABOUT NEON GENESIS LEHIGH VALLEY PHANTOMS HOCKEY?????

November 16, 2025 at 11:25 PM

Zax

@zaxman.gay

went to bed at 10am this morning oops

November 15, 2025 at 9:46 PM

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Astronomy Picture of the Day 🪐

@apod.shinyakato.dev

🔭 Andromeda and Friends

Image Credit & Copyright: Piotr Czerski

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This magnificent extragalactic skyscape looks toward the Andromeda Galaxy, the closest large spiral galaxy to the Milky Way. It also accomplishes a Messier catalog trifecta by including Andromeda, cataloged as Messier 31 (M31), along with Messier 32 (M32), and Messier 110 (M110) in the same telescopic field of view. In this frame, M32 is just left of the Andromeda Galaxy's bright core with M110 below and to the right. M32 and M110 are both elliptical galaxies themselves and satellites of the larger spiral Andromeda. By combining 60 hours of broadband and narrowband image data, the deep telescopic view also reveals tantalizing details of dust lanes, young star clusters, and star-forming regions along Andromeda's spiral arms, and faint, foreground clouds of glowing hydrogen gas. For now, Andromeda and friends are some 2.5 million light-years from our own large spiral Milky Way.

November 15, 2025 at 8:00 AM

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nat 🔪

@jiqqler.bsky.social

jesus christ bro all this over a fuckin AI poster

November 15, 2025 at 2:18 AM

Zax

@zaxman.gay

i look away from bsky for an HOUR, good lord this community sometimes lol

November 15, 2025 at 1:56 AM

Zax

@zaxman.gay

head hurty

November 14, 2025 at 8:55 PM

Zax

@zaxman.gay

how the fuck is 2025 almost over, I feel like I blacked out in February/March and now it's mid November....

November 14, 2025 at 4:25 AM

Zax

@zaxman.gay

everyone being able to see the aurora except me bc of constant cloud cover this week

November 14, 2025 at 3:22 AM

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Emilio Monelli

@monel76.bsky.social

2 hours version #astrophotography #astronomy 🔭 @kat-astro-bot.bsky.social @siril.org @gimpofficial.bsky.social

November 13, 2025 at 8:37 PM

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alexxii

@alexxidabs.bsky.social

THANK YOU SHELTERCON!!!! @sheltervr.club 💕💕💕💕💕💕💕💕💕
I got to play at the beach party at sheltercon, &had such a wonderful time, thank you again @snaxbeats.bsky.social for helping me with the 3000x holy shit had the time of my life ahhh🥺🥺🥺🥺🥺
Can’t wait for next year!! 💙💙

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ALEXXII | SHELTER | SHELTER VR CLUB | SHELTERCON7

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November 13, 2025 at 7:04 PM

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Astronomy Picture of the Day 🪐

@apod.shinyakato.dev

🔭 Orion and the Running Man

Image Credit & Copyright: R. Jay Gabany

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$Few cosmic vistas can excite the imagination like The Great Nebula in Orion. Visible as a faint, bland celestial smudge to the naked eye, the nearest large star-forming region sprawls across this sharp colourful telescopic image. Designated M42 in the Messier Catalogue, the Orion Nebula's glowing gas and dust surrounds hot, young stars. About 40 light-years across, M42 is at the edge of an immense interstellar molecular cloud only 1,500 light-years away that lies within the same spiral arm of our Milky Way galaxy as the Sun. Including dusty bluish reflection nebula NGC 1977, also known as the Running Man nebula at left in the frame, the natal nebulae represent only a small fraction of our galactic neighbourhood's wealth of star-forming material. Within the well-studied stellar nursery, astronomers have also identified what appear to be numerous infant solar systems.$

November 13, 2025 at 8:00 AM