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Ralf Schoofs
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In meiner Jugend haben die Mondlandungen mein Interesse für den Weltraum geweckt. Heute bin ich Künstlerin und Illustratorin. Schaut euch meine #spaceart Designs an!
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Mischtechnik auf Tapete.
Der Bildträger ist hier Tapete. Das war bei mir damals, am Anfang der 80er Jahre, so üblich.
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Frühwerk 40 ralf-schoofs.de/galerien/sci...
Mischtechnik auf Tapete.
Der Bildträger ist hier Tapete. Das war bei mir damals, am Anfang der 80er Jahre, so üblich.
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December 11, 2025 at 6:50 AM
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The Hybrid War Tracking project took a mega-leap forward!

1. Live BETA --> hwt.lv/admin/events
2. Front End/Backend of database
3 Processing of data. 1142 records now.
4. A Brief History of the project.
5. Status of the project.
6. OSINT: Please join us.
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Amara Graps posted a story update on Hybrid War Tracker: Exposing Russia’s Under-reported Ops in 🇫🇮🇪🇪🇱🇻🇱🇹🇵🇱
Dear Hybrid War Tracker Supporters, 1. Live Beta with some screen shots 2. Front End and Backend of the database 3 Processing of the Data 4. A Brief History of the Hybrid War Tracking project. 5. Stat...
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November 30, 2025 at 1:42 PM
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🔭 Orion and the Ocean of Storms

Image Credit: NASA, Artemis 1

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On December 5, 2022, a camera on board the uncrewed Orion spacecraft captured this view as Orion approached its return powered flyby of the Moon. Beyond one of Orion's extended solar arrays lies dark, smooth, terrain along the western edge of the Oceanus Procellarum. Prominent on the lunar nearside Oceanus Procellarum, the Ocean of Storms, is the largest of the Moon's lava-flooded maria. The lunar terminator, the shadow line between lunar night and day, runs along the left of this frame. The 41 kilometer diameter crater Marius is top center, with ray crater Kepler peeking in at the edge, just right of the solar array wing. Kepler's bright rays extend to the north and west, reaching the dark-floored Marius. By December 11, 2022 the Orion spacecraft had returned to its home world. The historic Artemis 1 mission ended with Orion's successful splashdown in planet Earth's water-flooded Pacific Ocean.
December 13, 2025 at 8:00 AM
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Trying to carve out the time for another Moria painting. Meanwhile I hear noises at the back gate...

Walls of Moria
48" x 48" Oil on Panel 2022
Collection of the Artist
December 13, 2025 at 2:02 AM
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asteroiddave.bsky.social
Another nice Geminid tonight. #Meteor #Meteorshower #Geminids 🔭
December 13, 2025 at 6:02 AM
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#ArtAdventCalendar #scifi

A robot peers into the landscape on an alien planet. Inspired by a photo I took in Chiang Rai, Thailand, at a location known locally as Buffalo Hill. I used to live here. I miss it!
Digital illustration of robot wearing an embroidered cape, enjoying a view towards a vast structure of unknown purpose.
December 13, 2025 at 12:43 PM
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I agree with this bit of flag logic. Canada should seasonally adjust its flag.
December 13, 2025 at 2:26 PM
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FLANDRY OF TERRA (1979)
Acrylic on Board - 27 ½" x 16"

This illustration differed from others at the time in that I used models. 1/3
A dark haired woman wearing polar gear and holding a rifle crouches in the snow. Behind her, a blonde man with mustache stands with air raised and a rifle gripped in hand. He aims a laser pistol at a hovering octopoidal alien, one of a group that approaches from behind. Pink sky gives way to a baby blue spacescape. A moon with its craggy surface highlighted in crescent looms huge in the sky, intersected by the white rings of the planet.
December 13, 2025 at 3:04 PM
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Much of the #Apollo17 LM Challenger’s descent stage is covered with gold Mylar thermal blankets, which were hand-crinkled to minimize the heat transfer between layers. Rover tracks can be seen in this photo, taken December 11 1972
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December 11, 2025 at 7:14 AM
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#apod 2025-12-11
Galaxies in the River
Image Credit: Vikas Chander
Web page: https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap251211.html
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December 11, 2025 at 6:30 AM
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Frühwerk 40 ralf-schoofs.de/galerien/sci...
Mischtechnik auf Tapete.
Der Bildträger ist hier Tapete. Das war bei mir damals, am Anfang der 80er Jahre, so üblich.
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December 11, 2025 at 6:50 AM
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Art by Eric Fowler for the legendary RBBC magazine. Starting out as a photocopied fanzine, Rocket’s Blast Comicollector (RBCC) was a comics advertising fanzine published from 1964 to 1983.
December 2, 2025 at 10:19 PM
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1984 4 (7786)
December 2, 2025 at 2:40 AM
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Art by US artist and illustrator Paul Alexander (1937 - 2021)
December 5, 2025 at 11:32 PM
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🔭 The Horsehead Nebula

Image Credit & Copyright: George Chatzifrantzis

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Sculpted by stellar winds and radiation, this dusty interstellar molecular cloud has by chance has assumed an immediately recognizable shape. Fittingly known as The Horsehead Nebula, it lies some 1,500 light-years distant, embedded in the vast Orion cloud complex. About five light-years "tall," the dark cloud is cataloged as Barnard 33, first identified on a photographic plate taken in the late 19th century. B33 is visible primarily because its obscuring dust is silhouetted against the glow of emission nebula IC 434. Hubble space telescope images from the early 21st century find young stars forming within B33. Of course, the magnificent interstellar cloud will slowly shift its apparent shape over the next few million years. But for now the Horsehead Nebula is a rewarding though difficult object to view with small telescopes from planet Earth.
December 10, 2025 at 8:00 AM
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markgarlick.com
Red sky at night, shepherd's delight.

For day 6 of #ArtAdventCalendar I present this painting of the Horsehead Nebula in Orion. The original was done with acrylics in 1996. This version has been digitally embellished somewhat.

#SciArt #spaceart
This is an impression of a hypothetical Earth-type planet in the vicinity of Barnard 33, also known as. the Horsehead Nebula because, well, it looks like a horse's head. At least that's what people claim. So what you're seeing here is a cloud of gas emitting red light, with a dark, absorbent cloud, in the shape of a Horsehead, superimposed on top of it. Nature speaks in strange ways. The title comes from the expression 'Red sky at night, Shepherd's Delight'. This is a digitally modified version of a painting I did in the 1990s.
December 6, 2025 at 10:56 AM
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WINTERSTAR (2025)
Acrylic - 12 ½” x 16”

As the long night of solstice draws near, Winter calls on the wonder of starlight and frost to illuminate a path to the new year. 1/3

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In profile, an elegant woman in close fitting bodice and flowing skirts saunters through a snow flurry with long red hair trailing as if swept up in the winter breeze. In the palm of one hand, she holds a star-shaped snowflake flaring with light. The details of her gown are accented with a myriad of snowflake designs. In the near foreground, a black cat strides ahead of her while a white owl glides on wings spread wide behind her. In the background snow, a black cat with white bib sits quietly, a distant observer.
December 10, 2025 at 2:42 PM
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That’s all you need to know….
December 10, 2025 at 4:21 PM
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China’s New Underwater Drones Could Threaten West Coast U.S.

Potential game changer

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China’s New Underwater Drones Could Threaten West Coast U.S. - Naval News
The vast expanse of the Pacific Ocean, over 5,000 nautical miles across, protects the West Coast of the United States against Chinese naval forces in the event of a war. The appearance of new extra-ex...
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December 10, 2025 at 11:39 AM
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ICYMI (Ich hab's übersehen): In Hannover sollen die Schulen von einer deutschen Software wechseln zu ... Microsoft. Was man als deutsche Verwaltung in diesen Zeiten halt so macht, wenn man keine Nachrichten liest.
Hannover verabschiedet sich von IServ: Plattform-Gründer will sich an den Oberbürgermeister wenden
Die Stadt Hannover will künftig auf den Schulserver des Braunschweiger Unternehmens IServ verzichten und stattdessen auf Produkte von Microsoft setzen. Für IServ-Chef Hüppe kommt diese Nachricht überr...
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December 9, 2025 at 2:25 PM
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netzpolitik.org
Mit angeblich nur zu Werbezwecken erhobenen Standortdaten aus Frankreich lässt sich sogar Personal von Geheimdiensten und Militär ausspionieren – inklusive Entourage von Emmanuel Macron. #DatabrokerFiles

– mit @lemonde.fr, L'Echo und @brkommunikation.bsky.social

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Databroker Files: Handy-Daten exponieren Begleiter von Emmanuel Macron
Databroker verhökern die Standortdaten von Millionen Menschen in Frankreich. Neue Recherchen zeigen: Mit den angeblich nur zu Werbezwecken erhobenen Daten lässt sich dort sogar Personal von Geheimdien...
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December 10, 2025 at 7:20 AM
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Für RND hat sich @felixhuesmann.de mit dem Lobbyverband #Familienunternehmer beschäftigt. Interessant sind die Unterlagen aus dem Vereinsregister. Und wie sich Präsidentin Ostermann bei #Republik21 und in der Hayek-Gesellschaft engagierte. Alle Details: www.rnd.de/politik/die-... 1/2
Wer ist der Verband „Die Familien­unternehmer“?
Die Entscheidung, künftig wieder mit der AfD sprechen zu wollen, sorgt weiter für eine heftige Debatte um den Verband „Die Familienunternehmer“. Wer steckt hinter dem Lobbyverband?
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November 27, 2025 at 2:44 PM
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Deutsche Soldaten können nur inständig hoffen, dass sie nie, nie, nie wieder irgendwo auf örtliche Unterstützung angewiesen sein werden.
Dobrindt entzieht Ortskräften Aufnahmezusage – „Warum zerstören Sie mich und meine Familie wissentlich?“
Dobrindt wollte nur noch Ortskräften aus Afghanistan ein Visa gewähren. Man habe eine politische Verantwortung für diese Menschen. Es kommt anders.
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December 10, 2025 at 10:40 PM
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🔭 Galaxies in the Furnace

Image Credit & Copyright: Simone Curzi and the ShaRA Team

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An example of violence on a cosmic scale, enormous elliptical galaxy NGC 1316 lies about 75 million light-years away toward Fornax, the southern constellation of the Furnace. Investigating the startling sight, astronomers suspect the giant galaxy of colliding with smaller neighbor NGC 1317 seen just right of the large galaxy's center, producing far flung star streams in loops and shells. Light from their close encounter would have reached Earth some 100 million years ago. In the sharp telescopic image, the central regions of NGC 1316 and NGC 1317 appear separated by over 100,000 light-years.Complex dust lanes visible within also indicate that NGC 1316 is itself the result of a merger of galaxies in the distant past. Found on the outskirts of the Fornax galaxy cluster, NGC 1316 is known as Fornax A. One of the visually brightest of the Fornax cluster galaxies it is one of the strongest and largest celestial radio sources with radio emission extending well beyond this one degree wide field-of-view.
December 4, 2025 at 8:00 AM
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Wow.
This says *everything* about the German defence debate, really.

For YEARS experts have fretted over public opinion on defence spending and how it would be impossible to justify spending over 1 or 2%. Turns out 35% (!!!!) of Germans think we’re already spending OVER 5 % of GDP. WTH.
December 7, 2025 at 9:54 AM