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December 7, 2025 at 10:07 PM
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musicboxonline.bsky.social
Good morning, Blue Sky!

"It's such a sad old feeling

The fields are soft and green

It's memories that I'm stealing

But you're innocent when you dream, when you dream"

(Happy Birthday, Tom Waits!)
December 7, 2025 at 2:50 PM
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soberdeaconess.bsky.social
A photo of the northern lights from MN.
My sister- in-law's cousin took it.
Not altered in any way.
December 7, 2025 at 4:01 PM
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hourlycosmos.bsky.social
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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#DavidsMonthOfMusic
#MusicChallenge
#MusicSky

12/6 - another favorite

Tedeschi Trucks Band - Everybody's Talkin'

2 real-life blues guitar heroes.
Susan's voice, created to sing the blues.
A full band and a horn section!
If you like the Allman Brothers, you'll love this
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Tedeschi Trucks Band - Everybody's Talkin' (Live)
YouTube video by TedeschiTrucksVEVO
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December 6, 2025 at 9:32 PM
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lorriefmp.bsky.social
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December 7, 2025 at 12:41 PM
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hourlycosmos.bsky.social
Nebulosa de emisión S 311 - From Ángel López-Sánchez - https://flic.kr/p/2yatsf
Combinación de filtros U (azul) + V (verde) + Halpha (rojo), desde el telescopio 2.56m NOT (La Palma).
December 6, 2025 at 6:02 PM
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hourlycosmos.bsky.social
The Jewel Box Cluster, NGC 4755 - From Rolf Wahl Olsen - https://flic.kr/p/dBvSPv
The Jewel Box is an open star cluster visible as a faint smudge with the naked eye under dark skies. It is located 6,440 light years away towards the constellation Crux, The Southern Cross. The first person to recognise it as a cluster of individual stars was Nicolas Louis de Lacaille during his visit to Cape Town in 1752. The name of the cluster originates from John Herschel's later observations in the 1830's, also from Cape Town, and his resulting vivid description: "A most vivid and beautiful cluster, though neither a large nor a rich one, is yet an extremely brilliant and beautiful object when viewed through an instrument of sufficient aperture to show distinctly the very different colour of its constituent stars, which give it the effect of a superb piece of fancy jewellery" The bright orange star in the centre of the cluster is known as Kappa Crucis. It provides a striking contrast with the rest of the hot blue cluster members. Although the cluster is a mere 14 million years young this star has already reached the red giant phase of its life and will most likely explode in a brilliant supernova within the next few million years. The cluster has ben photographed by a wide array of professional telescopes, including ESO's VLT and La Silla observatories and the Hubble Space Telescope. Click on the following link to view a beautiful composite image that provides a zoom into the heart of the cluster: Putting the Jewel Box in Perspective Image details: Da...
December 6, 2025 at 9:00 PM
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M33 Triangulum Galaxy, 2021-08-06 - From Ryan Kinnett (rkinnett.bsky.social) - https://flic.kr/p/2mgieU9
Imaged with APM 140mm doublet, 0.8x reducer, asi1600mm mono camera, and ZWO RGB filters.
December 6, 2025 at 8:00 PM
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December 5, 2025 at 6:56 PM
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December 5, 2025 at 10:23 PM
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hourlycosmos.bsky.social
Above and Below Titan's Atmosphere #8 - From Val Klavans (valklavans.bsky.social) - https://flic.kr/p/mJxZRb
On the left is a true color image of Titan. The moon's north polar hood is visible in this view. The image on the right is a representation of what it would look like if you could see past Titan's atmosphere and down to its surface. The darker areas are vast hydrocarbon sand dunes and seas. Up north, some of Titan's largest lakes and seas (Kraken Mare, Punga Mare and Jingpo Lacus) are visible. Down below, the Fensal-Aztlan region can be seen. Both images were taken by the Cassini spacecraft on April 1, 2014, as it was looking for clouds across Titan's northern hemisphere. More info: www.ciclops.org/view/7859/Rev203. This composite is made of images that were taken by Cassini's camera system, the Imaging Science Subsystem (ISS) on April 01, 2014 and received on Earth April 02, 2014. The camera was pointing toward TITAN at approximately 1,642,267 miles (2,642,973 kilometers) away, and the images were taken using the CB3, RED, GRN, BL1, CL2 and CL1 filters. Credit: NASA / JPL / SSI / Val Klavans about.me/valerieklavans
December 5, 2025 at 11:00 PM
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musicboxonline.bsky.social
Oh shit, a Little Feat cover. And it isn't the usual.
The Fan (feat. Joe Bonamassa)
YouTube video by DeWolff - Topic
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December 5, 2025 at 11:27 PM
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December 5, 2025 at 4:09 AM
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Church displays Nativity scene with baby Jesus in zip ties, ICE agents
The Evanston, Illinois, church said its display asks viewers to "confront the disconnect" between religious views and immigration policies.
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December 6, 2025 at 1:20 AM
mcmarch.bsky.social
Yes! Go #Jimi
December 6, 2025 at 4:54 PM
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Dione - May 9 2015 - From Kevin M. Gill (kevinmgill.bsky.social) - https://flic.kr/p/G2qC6E
Assembled from infrared, green, and ultraviolet filtered images (IR3/GRN/UV3). NASA/JPL-Caltech/SSI/Kevin M. Gill
December 6, 2025 at 8:00 AM
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One of mine in this year's Political Cartoon Awards. (As seen in Private Eye) www.ellwoodatfield.com/cartoon-of-t...
Private Eye Cartoon - Outside a Tesla Dealership an inflatable balloon man is raising its arm in a salute type pose. One employee says to another.. "Do you think we can get it to stop doing that?"
December 6, 2025 at 10:29 AM
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Let us first see peace
December 5, 2025 at 7:42 PM
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hourlycosmos.bsky.social
Hen 2-437 - From Judy Schmidt (geckzilla.bsky.social) - https://flic.kr/p/nzZCL3
An infrared, pseudogreen, red light view of a beautifully symmetrical bipolar preplanetary nebula (are we just calling these 'young' planetary nebulas now?). The blue appearance is due to the filters used. Note the blue outflows are glowing, ionized gas, not dust. There is a very faint but curious stray bit of gas pointing directly back to the central star down and to the left of the nebula. Thumbnails in the HLA are of awful quality and obviously created with some error but the actual data (acquired through DADS) is very nice looking. This object was also imaged for proposal 10536. Red: ACS/WFC F814W Green: Pseudo Blue: ACS/WFC F606W North is NOT up. It is 9.77° counter-clockwise from up.
December 5, 2025 at 9:00 PM
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Night Garden - From Bill (ridingrobots.bsky.social) - https://flic.kr/p/2j6neie
Capitol Reef National Park, Utah on May 25, 2020
December 5, 2025 at 6:00 PM
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Saturn, Dione, Enceladus and Tethys - NASA/ESA JWST Webb Space Telescope - From Andrea Luck (andrealuck.bsky.social) - https://flic.kr/p/2rHUzZs
Download full size image here: www.flickr.com/photos/192271236@N03/54951848248/sizes/o/ See license below Credit: NASA/ESA/CSA/STScI/AndreaLuck Colourised image created processing data from: mast.stsci.edu Instrument: NIRCAM Target: Saturn-Centre Filter: F322W2, F323N, F212 Observation ID: jw01247-o301_t637_nircam_f322w2-f323n jw01247-o301_t637_nircam_f212n Time: 2023-06-24 Proposal PI: Fletcher, Leigh Proposal ID: 1247 www.stsci.edu/jwst/science-execution/program-information?... Notes: Filter 212 has been reconstructed as it was missing parts of the Saturn atmosphere. For the Rings I only used F322W-F323N Credit: NASA/ESA/CSA/STScI/AndreaLuck Feel free to share, giving the appropriate credit and providing a link to the original image: creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/deed.en
December 5, 2025 at 3:00 PM
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Jupiter - June 26 1996 - From Kevin M. Gill (kevinmgill.bsky.social) - https://flic.kr/p/Cu83UL
Processed using infrared and violet filtered images taken by the Galileo orbiter on June 26 1996. NASA/JPL-Caltech/Kevin M. Gill
December 5, 2025 at 8:00 AM
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ESP_011425_1775 - From UAHiRISE (NASA) (uahirise.bsky.social) - https://flic.kr/p/dZ9BuA
December 4, 2025 at 10:00 PM
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“The soul that sees beauty may sometimes walk alone.”
― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
On the edge by a dirt road stands a single bare tree. To its right is a body of water. In the background are mountains.
December 4, 2025 at 5:31 PM