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pennythepenguin.bsky.social @pennythepenguin.bsky.social · Nov 22
Make sure you re-post this for awareness so blue sky does not become a bad place like twitter did #BlockAndMoveOn
mkirin.itch.io M. Kirin 📶⚡ @mkirin.itch.io · Nov 16
"i hope this site doesn't end up like the last one :("

Hope has nothing to do with it--DO YOUR PART!

Twitter & Truth Social are dying. Their users are used to farming outrage for engagement. Don't give them any!

🚫 Don't argue with them!
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✅ #BlockAndMoveOn
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I'm fighting.

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December 8, 2024 at 8:35 PM
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The Red Spider Nebula: surfing in Sagittarius - not for the faint-hearted!
Credit:ESA
Huge waves are sculpted in this two-lobed nebula some 3000 light-years away in the constellation of Sagittarius. This warm planetary nebula harbours one of the hottest stars known and its powerful stellar winds generate waves 100 billion kilometres high. The waves are caused by supersonic shocks, formed when the local gas is compressed and heated in front of the rapidly expanding lobes. The atoms caught in the shock emit the spectacular radiation seen in this image.
December 13, 2024 at 12:13 AM
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Pan: NGC 5643
December 13, 2024 at 1:22 AM
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Core of the Crab Nebula|NASA|
The core of the Crab Nebula is a pulsar, which is a small, rapidly spinning neutron star at the center of a massive dead star: The pulsar is the dense core of a star that died in a supernova explosion. It's about the same mass as the sun, but compressed into a sphere that's only a few miles across. The pulsar spins 30 times per second, emitting pulses of radiation ranging from gamma rays to radio waves. This makes the Crab Nebula easy to detect with a telescope. The pulsar's magnetic field and energetic particles create a "pulsar wind nebula". This nebula includes: Bright wisps: These wisps move outward from the pulsar at half the speed of light, forming an expanding ring. Glowing gas: This gas forms a swirling pattern of cavities and filaments. Ghostly blue glow: This glow is radiation given off by electrons spiraling in the pulsar's magnetic field. The Crab Nebula is located in the Milky Way, in the constellation Taurus, and is 6,500 light-years from Earth. It's also known as Messier 1 (M1). CreditsNASA and ESA; Acknowledgment: J. Hester (ASU) and M. Weisskopf (NASA/MSFC)
December 13, 2024 at 3:01 AM
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Spiral galaxy(NGC 1433)

Credit:NASA, ESA,
This spiral galaxy was observed as part of the Physics at High Angular resolution in Nearby GalaxieS (PHANGS) program, a large project that includes observations from several space- and ground-based telescopes of many galaxies to help researchers study all phases of the star formation cycle, from the formation of stars within dusty gas clouds to the energy released in the process that creates the intricate structures revealed by Webb’s new images. NGC 1433 is 46 million light-years away in the constellation Horologium.
December 5, 2024 at 1:20 AM
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Stephan's Quintet
Stephan's Quintet is a visual grouping of five galaxies of which four form the first compact galaxy group ever discovered.The group, visible in the constellation Pegasus, was discovered by Édouard Stephan in 1877 at the Marseille Observatory.The group is the most studied of all the compact galaxy groups.The brightest member of the visual grouping (and the only non-member of the true group) is NGC 7320, which has extensive H II regions, identified as red blobs, where active star formation is occurring.
December 5, 2024 at 2:43 AM
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Cosmic Road Trip
Credit:NASA/ESA/CSA/STScI
Cosmic Road Trip: four distinct composite images from NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory and the James Webb Space Telescope, presented in a two-by-two grid, Rho Ophiuchi at lower right, the heart of the Orion Nebula at upper right, the galaxy NGC 3627 at lower left and the galaxy cluster MACS J0416. X-ray: NASA/CXC/SAO; Optical/Infrared: (Hubble) NASA/ESA/STScI; IR: (JWST) NASA/ESA/CSA/STScI
December 5, 2024 at 10:46 AM
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The next destination is the Orion Nebula.
The next destination is the Orion Nebula. Still located in the Milky Way galaxy, this region is a little bit farther from our home planet at about 1,500 light-years away. If you look just below the middle of the three stars that make up the “belt” in the constellation of Orion, you may be able to see this nebula through a small telescope. With Chandra and Webb, however, we get to see so much more. Chandra reveals young stars that glow brightly in X-rays, colored in red, green, and blue, while Webb shows the gas and dust in darker red that will help build the next generation of stars here.
December 5, 2024 at 12:39 PM
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The Rose
Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech
The spinning vortex of Saturn's north polar storm resembles a deep red rose of giant proportions surrounded by green foliage in this false-color image from NASA's Cassini spacecraft. Measurements have sized the eye at a staggering 1,250 miles (2,000 kilometers) across with cloud speeds as fast as 330 miles per hour (150 meters per second). This image is among the first sunlit views of Saturn's north pole captured by Cassini's imaging cameras. When the spacecraft arrived in the Saturnian system in 2004, it was northern winter and the north pole was in darkness. Saturn's north pole was last imaged under sunlight by NASA's Voyager 2 in 1981; however, the observation geometry did not allow for detailed views of the poles. Consequently, it is not known how long this newly discovered north-polar hurricane has been active. The images were taken with the Cassini spacecraft narrow-angle camera on Nov. 27, 2012, using a combination of spectral filters sensitive to wavelengths of near-infrared light. The images filtered at 890 nanometers are projected as blue. The images filtered at 728 nanometers are projected as green, and images filtered at 752 nanometers are projected as red. In this scheme, red indicates low clouds and green indicates high ones. The view was acquired at a distance of approximately 261,000 miles (419,000 kilometers) from Saturn and at a sun-Saturn-spacecraft, or phase, angle of 94 degrees. Image scale is 1 mile (2 kilometers) per pixel. The Cassini-Huygens mission is a cooperative project of NASA, the European Space Agency and the Italian Space Agency. The Jet Propulsion Laboratory, a division of the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena, manages the mission for NASA's Science Mission Directorate in Washington. The Cassini orbiter and its two onboard cameras were designed, developed and assembled at JPL. The imaging team is based at the Space Science Institute, Boulder, Colo.
December 5, 2024 at 2:26 PM
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Taken Under the "Wing" of the Small Magellanic Cloud
The Small Magellanic Cloud (SMC) is one of the Milky Way's closest galactic neighbors. Even though it is a small or so-called dwarf galaxy, the SMC is so bright that it is visible to the unaided eye from the Southern Hemisphere and near the equator. Many navigators, including Ferdinand Magellan who lends his name to the SMC, used it to help find their way across the oceans. Modern astronomers are also interested in studying the SMC (and its cousin, the Large Magellanic Cloud), but for very different reasons. Because the SMC is so close and bright, it offers an opportunity to study phenomena that are difficult to examine in more distant galaxies. Credits NASA, ESA, CXC and the University of Potsdam, JPL-Caltech, and STScI
December 5, 2024 at 3:37 PM
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🛒 Aubuchon Hardware, Vergennes, VT.
A fluffy brown cat lies atop a stack of mason jars in a shop, yawning.
December 5, 2024 at 10:34 PM
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The Dusty Galaxy NGC 1316
Credit:NASA
Like dust bunnies that lurk in corners and under beds, surprisingly complex loops and blobs of cosmic dust lie hidden in the giant elliptical galaxy NGC 1316. This image made from data obtained with the NASA Hubble Space Telescope reveals the dust lanes and star clusters of this giant galaxy that give evidence that it was formed from a past merger of two gas-rich galaxies. The combination of Hubble's superb spatial resolution and the sensitivity of the Advanced Camera for Surveys (ACS), installed onboard Hubble in 2002 and used for these images, enabled uniquely accurate measurements of a class of red star clusters in NGC 1316. Credits:NASA, ESA, and The Hubble Heritage Team (STScI/AURA); Acknowledgment: P. Goudfrooij (STScI)
December 6, 2024 at 12:45 AM
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George, a station cat, is resting in an orange cat bed atop an office computer chair. A pack of cat treats rests on a computer keyboard before him.
November 30, 2024 at 5:16 PM
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The Heart Nebula

Credit: Rick Wiggins/NASA Blueshift
November 28, 2024 at 2:48 PM
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Let him look at a slide of chicken (for science).
A ginger cat standing next to a microscope.
November 28, 2024 at 3:38 PM
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I'll be donating all of November's ko-fi donations to my local dog rescue shelter, Linbee Dog Rehoming (UK Charity no 1167667). It's where I got my fantastic ex-racing greyhound, Toby. 🐕🐶

☕ Buy me a coffee (and donate!) here: ko-fi.com/translatedca...
Toby, a happy greyhound with a brindle coat, looks up at the camera while standing on green grass. His tongue is sticking out of his mouth.
November 19, 2024 at 4:57 PM
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🛒 Aubuchon Hardware, Lancaster, NH.
A fun black cat rolls around on a shelf beneath a display of cat toys in a hardware store.
November 27, 2024 at 2:20 PM
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What you would see if Andromeda was brighter in the night sky
If the Andromeda galaxy were brighter, it would be a major feature in the night sky, visible even in cities with moderate light pollution: Huge: It would appear roughly six times larger than the moon. Dominant: It would dominate the sky and be easily identifiable every night. Visible in cities: It would be visible even in cities with moderate light pollution. The Andromeda galaxy is currently too far away to be easily seen: Distance: It's 2.5 million light years away, or about 25 Milky Way diameters. Visibility: Only the super-condensed nucleus of Andromeda is bright enough to be visible to the naked eye. Appearance: To the naked eye, the galaxy's disk appears as a fuzzy smudge about one-quarter of a degree wide.
November 27, 2024 at 6:27 PM
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Earth’s temporary mini-moon, 2024 PT5, is leaving orbit today and is expected to return in 2055
Astronomers believe it could be a lost fragment of the Moon
November 28, 2024 at 1:02 AM
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Death of Star vs Birth of Cell
November 28, 2024 at 1:24 AM
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The Andromeda galaxy captured by the Hubble Space telescope
The Andromeda Galaxy is a barred spiral galaxy and is the nearest major galaxy to the Milky Way. It was originally named the Andromeda Nebula and is cataloged as Messier 31, M31, and NGC 224. Andromeda has a D₂₅ isophotal diameter of about 46.56 kiloparsecs and is approximately 765 kpc from Earth.
November 25, 2024 at 11:46 PM
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An amazing paper thin moon at 7 in the morning!!!
November 25, 2024 at 12:19 PM
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The Christmas Tree Cluster.
NGC 2264 is the designation number of the New General Catalogue that identifies two astronomical objects as a single object: the Cone Nebula, and the Christmas Tree Cluster. Two other objects are within this designation but not officially included, the Snowflake Cluster, and the Fox Fur Nebula.
November 25, 2024 at 12:07 AM
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Asleep at the wheel.
A fluffy brown cat is asleep on the chair of an orange forklift truck, inside a warehouse.
November 25, 2024 at 11:51 AM
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Good night bsky! 🌙
Lumi is reaching up to give you a smooch 🥺
November 24, 2024 at 5:22 AM