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Kenneth Hendrix

@krhstoryline.bsky.social

⚓ happy veterans 🫡 day to those who have served in the past and to those serving now 🌊

100th Anniversary of the Great White Fleet commemoration on board USS Nassau in NYC 2008 with
the Italian Navy.

’Hollywood Handshake’ tour with American actor Christian Slater aboard the Nimitz-class aircraft carrier USS Dwight D. Eisenhower (CVN 69) in 2009.

About to conduct aerial photography of the beautiful island of Oahu in Hawai’i from the sky above in 2012.

Christmas of 2013 in Kaneohe, Oahu, Hawai'i, with the commander in chief & 44th president of the United States, Barack Obama, and the first lady, Michelle Obama.

November 11, 2025 at 6:24 PM

Nasa Astronomy Hourly Pictures

@nasadailypicbot.bsky.social

NASA Astronomy Hourly Picture - 2008-12-18: La Superba
#Astronomy #NASA #Space

Y Canum Venaticorum (Y CVn) is a very rare star in planet Earth's night sky. It's also very red, exhibiting such a remarkable spectrum of light, 19th century astronomer Angelo Secchi dubbed it La Superba. Located 710 light-years away in northern constellation Canes Venatici (the Hunting Dogs), the star varies in brightness over a period of about half a year. Near maximum, it becomes just bright enough to see with the unaided eye, but the star's beautiful red hue is easy to see in binoculars or a small telescope. In fact, La Superba is among the brightest of the carbon stars - cool, highly evolved red giant stars with exceptional abundances of carbon. The carbon is created by helium fusion near the stellar core and dredged up into the stars' outer layers. The resulting overabundance of simple carbon molecules (like CO, CN, C2) in the atmospheres of carbon stars strongly absorbs bands of bluer light and gives these stars a deep red color. La Superba is losing its carbon-rich atmosphere into the surrounding interstellar material through a strong stellar wind, and could be near the beginning of a transition to a planetary nebula phase.

August 22, 2025 at 4:20 PM

GothCaptain 🦇 ⚰️🕸️ 🩸💀

@gothcaptain.bsky.social

I’m completely serious when I say there’s a nuclear powered aircraft carrier doing doughnuts outside my hotel room right now.

Grey seas and sky sandwiching a CVN on the horizon. I am on the 8th floor of my hotel.

August 19, 2025 at 1:38 PM

US Citizen Call Sign Mitch

@ihtme.bsky.social

Ya how many more Jets are they going to either Blow Out of the Sky, or fall off the Ship, or another collision happens before she just calls it a Deployment and comes home. The USS Gerald R. Ford (CVN-78) is due today Deploy to the region anytime now. Along with a (ARG) I believe also.

MT Anderson @mtanderson.bsky.social · May 8

Carrier Strike Group 8🇺🇸
Spotted on 5 May 2025 as CSG 8 continues operations in the Red Sea

With CVN-75 are 1x Arleigh Burke & USS Gettysburg (CG-64) Ticonderoga class cruiser

May 8, 2025 at 6:01 AM

manale26.bsky.social

@manale26.bsky.social

I am Manal from Gaza. I need your support to stand by me in helping my family and rebuilding our destroyed home. The pain is great, but the hope in you is greater.
#Trump #gaza#helpgaza #Palestine#freepalestine#Musk#AM
#GFM#Wargaza #SKY#CVN

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Donate to Humanitarian Appeal , help my family rebuild their home, organised by Yacoub Ibrahim

My name is Yacoub, a Palestinian from Gaza, currently living in… Yacoub Ibrahim needs your support for Humanitarian Appeal , help my family rebuild their home

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February 23, 2025 at 3:31 PM