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Charles
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20 | fan of the 80s, scifi and horror, as well as art and old technology
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Putting my notes together for my next article. Gonna set up some interviews with key people this week.

The clue: being stuck between a rock and deep space.

📸 me (2022)
A rock in the foreground emerges from the long grass in an empty field. In the distance is a big radio telescope dish antenna.
January 10, 2026 at 12:27 AM
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Cygnus Wall - From Ryan Kinnett (rkinnett.bsky.social) - https://flic.kr/p/2mor5kA
Cygnus Wall, part of the North America Nebula in Cygnus. Imaged with APM 140mm, asi1600mm, and ZWO SHO filters. 3.5 hours integration.
December 30, 2025 at 6:00 PM
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Sail Away - From Bill (ridingrobots.bsky.social) - https://flic.kr/p/2iH8Y6q
Strawberry Reservoir, Utah 2019
December 30, 2025 at 8:00 PM
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Hubble Sees Hidden Treasure in Large Magellanic Cloud - From Goddard Space Flight Center - https://flic.kr/p/dNXCK4
NASA image release January 23, 2013 Nearly 200 000 light-years from Earth, the Large Magellanic Cloud, a satellite galaxy of the Milky Way, floats in space, in a long and slow dance around our galaxy. As the Milky Way’s gravity gently tugs on its neighbour’s gas clouds, they collapse to form new stars. In turn, these light up the gas clouds in a kaleidoscope of colours, visible in this image from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope. To read more go to: 1.usa.gov/10vcJIi NASA image use policy. NASA Goddard Space Flight Center enables NASA’s mission through four scientific endeavors: Earth Science, Heliophysics, Solar System Exploration, and Astrophysics. Goddard plays a leading role in NASA’s accomplishments by contributing compelling scientific knowledge to advance the Agency’s mission. Follow us on Twitter Like us on Facebook Find us on Instagram
December 30, 2025 at 9:00 AM
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HH 30 - From Judy Schmidt (geckzilla.bsky.social) - https://flic.kr/p/bD4USy
This object has been featured on Spacetelescope.org but not this particular ACS data. Whether it's eligible for the contest or not, it's still quite interesting. HST_9863_01_ACS_WFC_F625W_sci HST_9863_01_ACS_WFC_F658N_sci
December 30, 2025 at 8:00 AM
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December 25, 2025 at 5:00 AM
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NGC 2023 "Sunset Glow" - From Judy Schmidt (geckzilla.bsky.social) - https://flic.kr/p/bE64D1
This has already been done: www.spacetelescope.org/images/potw1130a/ However, I used some infrared data to see through the flare and reduce it quite a bit. This also caused me to have to crop it to a landscape and take away some data so it wasn't awkward so I guess it was a trade-off. HST_9741_01_ACS_WFC_F625W_sci HST_9741_01_ACS_WFC_F475W_sci HST_9741_01_ACS_WFC_F658N_sci HST_9741_01_ACS_WFC_F850LP_sci hst_11548_9o_wfc3_ir_f160w_sci
December 25, 2025 at 7:00 AM
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Planetscape - From Bill (ridingrobots.bsky.social) - https://flic.kr/p/2nbRmRo
Badwater Basin Death Valley National Park, California February 2022
December 25, 2025 at 10:00 AM
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the nefarious critter #furry #art #furryart
May 20, 2025 at 4:29 PM
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Two bunnies snuggle on a carpet. One is white with a black ear and markings, the other is all white.
December 6, 2025 at 10:22 PM
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NGC 4254 - From Judy Schmidt (geckzilla.bsky.social) - https://flic.kr/p/2k2ZeEa
Grand design spiral galaxy NGC 4254 or Messier 99 seen as only Hubble can see, with a full set of nearly visible light red, blue, and green filters, with extra near-ultraviolet data to make those young blue star clusters pop. Data from the illustrious PHANGS-HST program were used to create this image. archive.stsci.edu/proposal_search.php?mission=hst&id=... More on PHANGS here: phangs.stsci.edu/ A single F814W exposure also uses data from the following proposal: PTF10fqs: A Luminous Red Nova in the Spiral Messier 99 Red: WFC3/UVIS F814W Green: WFC3/UVIS F555W Blue: WFC3/UVIS F438W+F336W+F275W North is 26.9° counter-clockwise from up.
December 7, 2025 at 1:00 AM
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NGC 1805 - From Judy Schmidt (geckzilla.bsky.social) - https://flic.kr/p/2hGxYpA
This is a globular cluster located in the outskirts of the Large Magellanic Cloud. The reason it looks so colorful is because it was imaged in red/near-infrared (the red channel filter overlaps both) and near-ultraviolet. HST is one of the only observatories still in operation capable of ultraviolet observations due to its location above Earth's atmosphere. Astronomers are especially keen to make use of its ultraviolet abilities before the harsh environment of space takes its inevitable toll on the telescope. Yes, the telescope will eventually stop working altogether, but even before that happens, the detectors which pick up ultraviolet light are also quickly losing sensitivity. Globular clusters typically take on an overall muted yellow color in visible spectrum images, but the near-infrared and near-ultraviolet filters are very good at highlighting what might otherwise be subtle differences and the result is a beautifully colorful image. You might also notice the faint red apparitions of galaxies in the background. They are relatively faint in ultraviolet light, so they appear unusually red in this particular image, but their shapes are unmistakably galactic. Data from the following proposals were used to create this image. Which stars go BOOM? Multiple Stellar Populations in Young Magellanic Cloud Clusters Red: WFC3/UVIS F814W Green: WFC3/UVIS F336W Blue: WFC3/UVIS F225W North is 2.3° clockwise from up.
December 7, 2025 at 2:00 AM
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A white and brown bunny sits next to a glowing bunny-shaped lamp on a blanket. Soft star lights hang in the background.
December 2, 2025 at 5:36 PM
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The Wow! Signal wasn’t the only mystery in the Big Ear data. Thousands of pages of unpublished observations still exist on paper. Help us save, digitize, and release it before it’s lost forever. #RadioAstronomy #Astrophysics #WowSignal #SETI #GivingTuesday phl.upr.edu/support
December 2, 2025 at 3:10 PM
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Zodiacal Light - From Bill (ridingrobots.bsky.social) - https://flic.kr/p/2kJzgVp
The Pleiades, and Mars just below them, in the zodiacal light as seen in Skull Valley, Utah. NASA announced today that scientists have discovered evidence that Mars is actually the likely source of the dust that creates the glow.
December 2, 2025 at 11:00 AM
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❄️🐈 #pixelart
December 30, 2024 at 3:29 PM
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December 2, 2025 at 6:00 AM
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In honor of a certain show’s opening scene that came out a few days ago- here’s me a few years ago while on a site visit to the VLA! My “bread and butter” telescope as a radio astronomer! 🤩

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November 9, 2025 at 4:27 PM
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Yesterday, when I was leaving work I had to pull over and grab this photo — cause the clouds above one of the old radio telescopes at work looked really good. Puffy blobs sinking under their weight.

This is Remus 📡

I’ve stretched the image a little by increasing contrast, and foreground shadows.
A radio dish antenna pointing upwards in the sky in a field. In the distance are trees. Above it, fluffy rain filled clouds make a dramatic sky.
November 25, 2025 at 7:59 PM
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November 25, 2025 at 11:00 PM
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The truth 🐊
November 26, 2025 at 12:45 AM
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Transforming Galaxy Redo - From Judy Schmidt (geckzilla.bsky.social) - https://flic.kr/p/fEHboN
This galaxy has no elegant name, just various long numbered identifiers I have put in the tags. Nonetheless, it is interesting because it has recently merged with another galaxy and left long trails of stars strewn all about. It's actually a specific kind of transforming galaxy which is heading into old age. More details here. Also here, because this galaxy was part of the same study so that description probably fits it pretty well. Earlier this year I processed this same image. However, it didn't turn out very well. I couldn't figure out how to bring out the faint details without increasing the noise to insanely ugly levels. But I came up with some novel (at least to me) ideas on dealing with it and am pretty happy with how it turned out. Other processing notes: Three bothersome bars of noise where chip gaps were had to be carefully adjusted but I still couldn't get it perfect. Dragon's breath emerging from the lower edge of the frame also not completely gone. Elliptical ring pair on the left lower side which I had to clone data over to eliminate. There was a small area of cross talk from the two bright stars near the center of the image. (I have been reading my ACS and WFPC2 CCD anomalies documents lately to make sure I understand things better.) Red: hst_11643_08_wfc3_uvis_f625w_sci Green: Pseudo Blue: hst_11643_08_wfc3_uvis_f438w_sci North is NOT up.
November 23, 2025 at 8:00 PM
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Interesting new #RadioAstronomy result - "Radio burst from a stellar coronal mass ejection"

www.nature.com/articles/s41...
November 12, 2025 at 8:06 PM
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#pixelart
November 13, 2025 at 8:15 PM