My brother and one of my best friends got squamous cell cancer in the throat and mouth due to HPV. If they had received the HPV vaccine as young men (then unavailable), most likely they would never have gotten cancer.

Vaccines work. Don't let these trumpers tell you otherwise.

Ow!!!
#art

Messier 1, the #CrabNebula, is a #supernova remnant in #Taurus, approx. 6,500 ly away. CaM around Dec. 16th.

detailed information: astrocamp.eu/en/messier-1...

▼ Vixen VC200L | EOS M100(a) '24

#astrophoto #astrophotography #nightsky #space #sky #astronomy #telescope #clearsky #photography #nature

No, That’s not a comet. That’s the planet Mercury with it's sodium tail.

NGC 346 side-by-side images: Hubble and Webb.
🔭 🧪

Another jaw-dropper from JWST, from a survey of planet-forming disks in the star-forming region NGC 346, in the Small Magellanic Cloud. 🧪 🔭

Source: webbtelescope.org/contents/new...

Image: NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI, Olivia C. Jones (UK ATC), Guido De Marchi (ESTEC), Margaret Meixner (USRA)

also went ghost hunting on a battleship, 10/10 recommend

I keep thinking about that scene in Wicked when Dr. Dillamond is teaching the history of Animal rights, and somebody in the class whines, "Why don't you teach us history instead of dwelling on the past?" It feels so on the nose right now.

First ever image of another multi-planet solar system captured by ESO Telescope