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Tomorrow's NASA's Astronomy Picture Of the Day (APOD): colliding spiral galaxies by JWSTand Hubble.
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Two spiral galaxies take up almost the entire view and appear to be overlapping. The galaxy at left, IC 2163, is smaller and more compact than the galaxy at right, NGC 2207. The black background of space is dotted with foreground stars and extremely distant galaxies.

January 5, 2025 at 5:17 PM

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Jasmine 🌌🔭

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for the neptune lovers 💙

In this Webb image, Neptune resembles a pearl with rings that look like ethereal concentric ovals around it. There are 2 thinner, crisper rings and 2 broader, fainter rings. A few extremely bright patches on the lower half of Neptune represent methane ice clouds. Six tiny white dots, which are six of Neptune’s 14 moons, are scattered among the rings. The background of the image is black.

Neptune appears as a light blue crescent against the darkness of space.

Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Kevin M. Gill

Neptune appears as a large blue crescent, illuminated on its left side. Triton appears as a much smaller brown crescent, also illuminated on its left side. Triton is on the bottom of Neptune.

Voyager image of Neptune. The planet appears dark blue and dark atmospheric features can be seen across the planet.

January 6, 2025 at 2:53 AM

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Barb McQuade

@barbmcquade.bsky.social

This stream of Kash Patel’s baseless conspiracy theories about FBI on Jan 6 should disqualify him from leading the agency. Thanks to @normeisen.bsky.social and @tomjoscelyn.bsky.social for their work to compile it.
open.substack.com/pub/thebulwa...

Kash Patel Believes the FBI Planned Jan. 6th

His embrace of this wild conspiracy theory should disqualify him from leading the bureau.

open.substack.com

January 6, 2025 at 1:10 PM

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AltYellostoneNatPar

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Tonight in stargazing

OH 231.8+04.2-
The Rotten Egg Nebula
Constellation Puppis
Distance 5,000 light years
Discovered by William Herschel 1786
Length 1.4 light years
Named after its high sulfur content it's a star of similar size as our sun but in its early stages of planetary nebula formation

January 6, 2025 at 2:50 AM

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Cara Ramsey

@cairenntairisu.bsky.social

After extensive review, France has established very positive gender affirming care guidelines, and they’ve rejected the highly politicized Cass Report as simply false.

www.lgbtqnation.com/2024/12/new-...