michael
@radplanets.bsky.social
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planetary scientist, allegedly 🪐 baltimorean, actually 🦀 not a professional account but I do talk about science sometimes ig: radplanets_
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*takes a cute selfie*
*posts it everywhere*
high angle selfie of a man with brown hair and glasses wearing a blue tie dye shirt
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yassified for anonymity as if we don’t know exactly who that is
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she’s in culture 😭😭😭😭😭
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oh. 🙃🙃🙃🙃🙃🙃🙃🙃
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feat. foam pipe insulation that I stapled to the joists to keep me from bonking my head while doing laundry
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Sometimes fresh cracked black pepper too 😋
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hi riley! hbd mason! 🥰
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did he forget he represents Illinois or…?
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Durbin on whether Democrats can use reining in ICE in Chicago as a precondition to rein in the government says “can’t do that. It’s gotta be health care all the way.”
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close enough, welcome back Tony Vlachos
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your panorama worked this time!!
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M33, the Triangulum Galaxy. Composite image with just under 4 hours of total integration time. It's the third-largest galaxy in the Local Group, the first being Andromeda and the second being our own Milky Way. It's also the second-closest major galaxy, sitting at ~2.7 million lightyears. 🔭
A photo of a large spiral galaxy. The arms are somewhat indistinct and subtle, but two major ones can be made out. Dark dust lanes snake their away through the arms like veins. Several large pink clumps dot the face of the disk, each one a vast star-forming region hundreds to thousands of lightyears across. The center of the galaxy glows with a soft pale yellow light. The outer regions are a dimmer bluish-purple. Many foreground stars are also present, all of which are much closer than the Triangulum galaxy and sit within the Milky Way, just happening to be between the viewer and the galaxy behind them.