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Wigmund
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40+ year old with a pair of cats living in Northwest Arkansas that likes a bunch of random shit.

I sometimes get out on the weekends to take nature photos. Feel free to correct any labels I have on my photos, not an expert and appreciate the help.
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🔭 Moon Games

Image Credit & Copyright: Giorgia Hofer

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This is not a screen from a video game. Nestled below the tree-line, the small mountain church does look like it might be hiding from Moon though. In the well-composed telephoto snapshot, taken on November 23, the church walls are partly reflecting light from terrestrial flood lights. Of course, the Moon is reflecting light from the Sun. At any given time the Sun illuminates fully half of the Moon's surface, also known as the lunar dayside, but on that night only a sliver of its sunlit surface was visible. About three days after New Moon, the Moon was in a waxing crescent phase. The single exposure was captured shortly after sunset in skies near Danta di Cadore, northern Italy, planet Earth.
November 29, 2025 at 8:00 AM
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if the place looks like a murder den and there’s an uncomfortably sexy pig on the sign, you’re in for a good barbecue time
April 11, 2024 at 11:33 PM
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🔭 NGC 6888: The Crescent Nebula

Image Credit & Copyright: Greg Bass

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NGC 6888, also known as the Crescent Nebula, is a about 25 light-years across, a cosmic bubble blown by winds from its central, massive star. This deep telescopic image includes narrowband image data, to isolate light from hydrogen and oxygen atoms. The oxygen atoms produce the blue-green hue that seems to enshroud the nebula's detailed folds and filaments. Visible within the nebula, NGC 6888's central star is classified as a Wolf-Rayet star (WR 136). The star is shedding its outer envelope in a strong stellar wind, ejecting the equivalent of the Sun's mass every 10,000 years. In fact, the Crescent Nebula's complex structures are likely the result of this strong wind interacting with material ejected in an earlier phase. Burning fuel at a prodigious rate and near the end of its stellar life, this star should ultimately go out with a bang in a spectacular supernova explosion. Found in the nebula rich constellation Cygnus, NGC 6888 is about 5,000 light-years away.
November 28, 2025 at 8:00 AM
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Bring back the Nightmare Fuel Parades
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When the Macy's Thanksgiving Day parade was directed by Hieronymus Bosch
Terrifying balloon creatures from 1930s Thanksgiving parades
November 27, 2025 at 11:10 PM
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Here's to the Thanksgiving tradition of listening to all 18+ minutes of Arlo Guthrie's "Alice's Restaurant Massacree" at least once
November 27, 2025 at 5:08 PM
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A Thanksgiving Tradition - the 47th annual WKRP in Cincinnati Turkey Drop
WKRP in Cincinnati - S1E7 - Turkeys Away (Segment) (SUPERSCALED)
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November 27, 2025 at 5:00 PM
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🔭 Portrait of NGC 1055

Image Credit & Copyright: John Hayes

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Big, beautiful spiral galaxy NGC 1055 is a dominant member of a small galaxy group a mere 60 million light-years away toward the aquatically intimidating constellation Cetus. Seen edge-on, the island universe spans over 100,000 light-years, a little larger than our own Milky Way galaxy. The colorful, spiky stars decorating this cosmic portrait of NGC 1055 are in the foreground, well within the Milky Way. But telltale pinkish star forming regions and young blue star clusters are scattered through winding dust lanes along the distant galaxy's thin disk. With a smattering of even more distant background galaxies, the deep image also reveals a boxy halo that extends far above and below the central bulge and disk of NGC 1055. The halo itself is laced with faint, narrow structures, and could represent the mixed and spread out debris from a satellite galaxy disrupted by the larger spiral some 10 billion years ago.
November 27, 2025 at 8:00 AM
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speed dating but it’s just a scholastic book fair for adults
November 26, 2025 at 9:49 PM
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FYI, these rule
November 26, 2025 at 11:46 PM
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🔭 Globular Cluster M15 Deep Field

Image Credit & Copyright: Alvaro Ibanez Perez

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A starfield is shown with thin wisps of gray and red running through it. In the center is an usual ball -- which is a globular cluster of stars upon closer inspection. Please see the explanation for more detailed information.
November 26, 2025 at 8:00 AM
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🔭 Comet Lemmon and the Milky Way

Image Credit & Copyright: Lin Zixuan linzx23 at mails.tsinghua.edu dot cn) (Tsinghua U.)

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A night skyscape is shown over snowcapped mountains. On the left is the band of the Milky Way Galaxy, while on the right is a bright comet with two tails -- a white tail going up and trailing to the right and a longer blue tail going up and trailing off to the left. Please see the explanation for more detailed information.
November 25, 2025 at 8:00 AM
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🔭 Apep: Unusual Dust Shells from Webb

Image Credit: NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI, JWST; Science: Y. Han (Caltech), R. White (Macquarie U.); Image Processing: A. Pagan (STScI)

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A starfield has a large and unusual red and orange nebula in the middle. The nebula seems to contain not only swirls but also nearly transparent shells. Please see the explanation for more detailed information.
November 24, 2025 at 8:00 AM
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🔭 The Observable Universe

Illustration Credit & Licence: Wikipedia, Pablo Carlos Budassi

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A diagram is shown depicting various parts of the universe that are observable. In the middle are the parts closest to Earth, and around the far edges are parts furthest from Earth. Planets, galaxies, and the CMB are illustrated. Please see the explanation for more detailed information.
November 23, 2025 at 8:00 AM
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🔭 Dione and Rhea Ring Transit

Image Credit & Copyright: Christopher Go

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Seen to the left of Saturn's banded planetary disk, small icy moons Dione and Rhea are caught passing in front of the gas giant's extensive ring system in this sharp telescopic snapshot. The remarkable image was recorded on November 20, when Saturn's rings were nearly edge-on when viewed from planet Earth. In fact, every 13 to 16 years the view from planet Earth aligns with Saturn's ring plane to produce a series of ring plane crossings. During a ring plane crossing, the interplanetary edge-on perspective makes the thin but otherwise bright rings seem to disappear. By November 23rd Saturn's rings will have reached a minimum angle for now, at their narrowest for viewing from planet Earth, but then start to widen again. Of course, Dione and Rhea orbit Saturn near the ring plane once every 2.7 and 4.5 days respectively, while the next series of Saturn ring plane crossings as seen from Earth will begin again in 2038.
November 22, 2025 at 8:00 AM
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🔭 3I/ATLAS: A View from Planet Earth

Image Credit & Copyright: Rolando Ligustri

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Now outbound after its perihelion or closest approach to the Sun on October 29, Comet 3I/ATLAS is only the third known interstellar object to pass through our fair Solar System. Its greenish coma and faint tails are seen against a background of stars in the constellation Virgo in this view from planet Earth, recorded with a small telescope on November 14. But this interstellar interloper is the subject of an on-going, unprecedented Solar System-wide observing campaign involving spacecraft and space telescopes from Earth orbit to the surface of Mars and beyond. And while the comet from another star-system has recently grown brighter, you'll still need a telescope if you want to see 3I/ATLAS from planet Earth. It's now above the horizon in November morning skies and will make its closest approach to Earth, a comfortable 270 million kilometers distant, around December 19.
November 21, 2025 at 8:00 AM
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Greene is taking her toys and going home.
Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene to resign in January
The Georgia Republican's resignation comes after recently butting heads with President Donald Trump.
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November 22, 2025 at 1:52 AM
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🔭 Alnitak, Alnilam, Mintaka

Image Credit & Copyright: Aygen Erkaslan

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Alnitak, Alnilam, and Mintaka are the bright bluish stars from east to west (upper right to lower left) along the diagonal in this cosmic vista. Otherwise known as the Belt of Orion, these three blue supergiant stars are hotter and much more massive than the Sun. They lie from 700 to 2,000 light-years away, born of Orion's well-studied interstellar clouds. In fact, clouds of gas and dust adrift in this region have some surprisingly familiar shapes, including the dark Horsehead Nebula and Flame Nebula near Alnitak at the upper right. The famous Orion Nebula itself is off the right edge of this colorful starfield. The telescopic frame spans almost 4 degrees on the sky.
November 20, 2025 at 8:00 AM
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there are friends and treasure in the forest
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a neon scene of a rotting log covered in moss and fungus sitting in a moonlit forest, with text below that reads GO INTO THE WOODS
November 15, 2025 at 11:38 AM
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🔭 Chamaeleon Dark Nebulas

Image Credit & Copyright: Xinran Li & Houbo Zhao

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The featured image shows a dark nebula complex involving thick dust appearing brown and making a big
November 19, 2025 at 8:00 AM
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Enquiry from an 8yo asking what the Fulton Orrery planets were? Apparently the #Kelvingrove museum staff didn't know, so he e-mailed the Astronomer Royal to find out! I also didn’t know, but the AstroSociety of #Glasgow did (after watching an old VHS recording on the topic!) 🔭 #histsci 1/2🧵
Old Glasgow Museum: Fulton's Orrery A clockwork machine on an ornate stand, with small orbs (planets) on sticks centred around a large shiny orb in the middle (the Sun) From https://www.theglasgowstory.com/image/?inum=TGSE00101
November 17, 2025 at 10:49 AM
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November 19, 2025 at 3:55 AM
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November 13, 2025 at 5:58 PM
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Part 102 of 200 in historically interesting things

Depictions of Medjed from 950s BCE. Medjed The Smiter is an ancient Egyptian god who shoots rays of light from his eyes, and who goes round about heaven robed in the flame of his mouth, commanding Hāpi (Nile god), but remaining himself unseen
A suppository that has eyes and feet
November 14, 2025 at 4:54 PM
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🔭 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