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Jasmine 🌌🔭

@astrojaz.bsky.social

another small cleanse before i go to bed 🌌

A spiral galaxy. It has a bright core with light spilling out. Its disk holds thick clumps of dark reddish dust, which swirls around the galaxy following its rotation. Brighter and hotter stars, shown in blue, speckle parts of the disk. A halo of faint gas wraps around the galaxy, extending beyond the edges of the image.

$A small grouping of large stars shines brightly with diffraction spikes, against a background full of smaller stars, glowing reddish and blue gas, and dark dust.$ $A bright star with four diffraction spikes shines at the center of the image, surrounded by a dark blue ring of gas and dust. Other stars fill the image, all against black space.$ Intricate clouds of gas and dust fill the image. Dark brown dust is concentrated on the left side of the image, along with the lower portions of the rest of the view. Glowing green and blue gas fills the rest of the image, with pink stars visible throughout.

Intricate clouds of gas and dust fill the image. Dark brown dust is concentrated on the left side of the image, along with the lower portions of the rest of the view. Glowing green and blue gas fills the rest of the image, with pink stars visible throughout.

January 10, 2025 at 3:17 AM

zenith

@syazani.bsky.social

thank you maam for the amazing childhood 😭 still loved trains till this day

Culture Crave 🍿 @culturecrave.co · Jan 3

'Thomas and Friends' series creator Britt Allcroft has passed away at the age of 81

January 4, 2025 at 8:33 AM

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Jasmine 🌌🔭

@astrojaz.bsky.social

webb and chandra combined images 🤩

$This is a composite image of star cluster NGC 602, in vibrant and festive colors. The shape of the star cluster strongly resembles a holiday wreath. The cluster includes a giant dust cloud ring, shown in greens, yellows, blues, and oranges. The green hues and feathery edges of the ring cloud create the appearance of a wreath made of evergreen boughs. Hints of red representing X-rays provide shading, highlighting layers within the wreath-like ring cloud. The image is aglow with specks and dots of colorful, festive light, in blues, golds, whites, oranges, and reds. These lights represent stars within the cluster. Some of the lights gleam with diffraction spikes, while others emit a warm, diffuse glow. Upon closer inspection, many of the glowing specks have spiraling arms, indicating that they are, in fact, distant galaxies. Image credit: X-ray: NASA/CXC; Infrared: ESA/Webb, NASA & CSA, P. Zeilder, E.Sabbi, A. Nota, M. Zamani; Image Processing: NASA/CXC/SAO/L. Frattare and K. Arcand$ $In this composite image, a bright, massive star, WR 124, gleams with diffraction spikes, surrounded by a churning wind cloud in reds and purples. With its dusty rose coloring, and the bright, gleaming star at its core, the wind cloud resembles the inside of a delicate flower with opening petals. Dozens of other bright stars surround WR 124, including white dots rimmed with neon purple, and gleaming white dots with cool blue diffraction spikes. The purple dots are stars detected with Chandra. Image credit: X-ray: NASA/CXC/SAO; Infrared: (Herschel) ESA/NASA/Caltech, (Spitzer) NASA/JPL/Caltech, (WISE) NASA/JPL/Caltech; Infrared: NASA/ESA/CSA/STScI/Webb ERO Production Team; Image processing: NASA/CXC/SAO/J. Major$

The is an infrared image with data from Webb. It resembles a rust brown mountain range backed by a hazy blue night sky. The entire image is filled with stars. The right half of this graphic is a large, square composite image combining the two smaller images’ data, Chandra lends its magenta touches to the top right of the original Webb frame.

Image credit: X-ray: NASA/CXC/Univ. Observ. Munich/T. Preibisch et al.; IR: NASA/ESA/CSA/STScI

Webb's view shows fluffy tan-colored nebula clouds with rust-colored highlights surrounding a black central area. Within that area, the focal point of the image is one large yellow star with eight long thin points. To the right of this star is a bright star cluster in an oval shape. The stars within the cluster look like tiny blue sparkles. The cluster is more densely packed at its core and scatters outward. Towards the bottom of the image, multiple arms appear to spiral out of a cloudy tan knob. Other blue and yellow eight-pointed stars, as well as distant galaxies, are dotted throughout. The composite view looks largely the same as the Webb view, but adds in X-ray patches of dark blue and purple overlaid on top of the cavities. The most prominent X-ray cloud resembles an upward pointing triangle in the central area.

Image credit: X-ray: NASA/CXC/Penn State Univ./L. Townsley et al.; IR: NASA/ESA/CSA/STScI/JWST ERO Production Team

December 22, 2024 at 3:03 AM

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philtacular

@philtacular.bsky.social

-shows up wearing ceasefire pin
-talks about how the art and magic of games comes from the creatives and devs
-denounces the games made for quotas and in boardrooms
-takes a shot at TGA about giving proper airtime to creatives
-doesnt name drop any celebs

forget the awards, this guy wins hearts man

Swen Vincke, director of larian games, at The Game Awards, giving a speech before handing out the game of the year award

December 13, 2024 at 4:16 AM

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WholesomeMemes

@wholesomememe.bsky.social

December 8, 2024 at 10:30 PM

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The Race

@wearetherace.bsky.social

Oscar Piastri joins an exclusive list of drivers who have completed 100% of racing laps in a season:

- Michael Schumacher
- Lewis Hamilton
- Max Verstappen
- Oscar Piastri

December 8, 2024 at 4:17 PM

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BackmarkerSPORTS

@backmarkersports.com

Superb season by McLaren, they have a lot of reasons to be positive. Constructors’ champions for the first time since 1998, and now clearly have a rapid car. If they find better consistency in 2025, they’ll have a real shot at a drivers’ title. Andrea Stella has been a revelation.

December 8, 2024 at 8:33 PM

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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

@aoc.bsky.social

People are leaving Twitter because it’s not fun anymore and no one is obligated to be on a platform they don’t enjoy.

It’s not rocket science.

December 2, 2024 at 5:03 AM

zenith

@syazani.bsky.social

yoooo malaysians where are yall at

November 25, 2024 at 4:28 AM

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iman 🪂🔻🔻

@imanisthere.bsky.social

This should be happening across the globe to all the brands on the BDS list. You kids know what to do, get to work. Carfour had to close because they lost over 70% of their sales. White people what are you doing?

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Starbucks closes 50 stores across Malaysia amid ongoing anti-Israel boycott

Starbucks has reportedly closed dozens of stores in Malaysia, amid the ongoing widespread boycott of pro-Israeli brands and products throughout the country and the wider international community. Accor...

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November 23, 2024 at 12:02 PM

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Amy Siskind

@amysiskind.com

I just want the first thing you read today to be this: it's going to be okay. We are going to get through this together. We will fight back together and prevail, just like last time.

November 21, 2024 at 1:39 PM