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Would you eat here? #restaurant

Robert Frost 🖎

I can see why young people protest in France, Serbia, other places - the future seems so bleak and is being stolen from them by billionaires and corrupt autocrats. The affordability issue is crushing people.

ESA/Hubble (@esa.int) images (Feb 4, 2025) LEDA 1313424, or the Bullseye galaxy, features nine distinct rings, with eight confirmed by Hubble and one by Keck. esahubble.org/images/opo2506/

Gásadalur village overlooking the Múlafossur Waterfall on the island of Vágar in the Faroe Islands: #AGoodPlace Source: www.reddit.com/r/oddlysatis...

Smoke signals in space 💨 The Fine Ring Nebula, shown here, looks like an almost perfect circular ring — yet most planetary nebulae are either spherical or elliptical in shape, or bipolar. Why this unusual shape? Find out: https://www.eso.org/public/images/potw1131a/ 🔭 #flashback

My painting 'Winter Retreat' is available as a small art print in my Etsy store! Lots of others to choose from as well. Thanks for looking and thank you to everyone who has placed an order! monicamorrillart.etsy.com

Cosmic contrast: when object of largely different distance conspire to form a particular interesting setting. Like for NGC 7497 , a barred spiral galaxy of type SBd located about 60 million light-years away in the constellation Pegasus. https://g-rv.eu/lV 🔭 #Astrophotography 🔭📷 1/3

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NEW: What Lurks Within the Shadows of Betelgeuse? Betelgeuse, Betelgeuse, Betelgeuse … 👻 You can say it three times, but new data (NSF #VeryLargeArray and #ALMA) suggests that its recently discovered companion star, Siwarha, is the one doing the haunting. 🔗 Read more: https://bit.ly/4jHMqAY

© Andrew Wyeth. 'Weatherside.' Tempera on panel, 1965. 121.9 × 70.5 cm.

ESA/Webb (@esa.int) images (Nov 25, 2024) Hubble and Webb showcase the Sombrero Galaxy in visible and mid-infrared light, revealing distinct features of its structure. esawebb.org/images/weic2427b/

Bust of Nefertiti This painted limestone queen has only one inlaid eye. When it was dug up at Amarna in 1912, the excavators sifted the workshop rubble for the missing left eye and found nothing, because it was most likely never put in. #Archaeology #ArchaeologyRocks #AncientEgypt

ESA/Hubble (@esa.int) images (Feb 3, 2012) Hubble's image reveals NGC 1073 in the constellation Cetus, showcasing quasars and the X-ray source IXO 5, hinting at high-energy phenomena. esahubble.org/images/heic1202b/

Paul Evans. (b.1954, UK) "Autumn Colours, Chelsworth" oil on canvas. 🍂

Please enjoy my cartoon for Tuesday's Toronto Star

“I don’t think being good at things is the point of doing them.” — KURT VONNEGUT

© Emile Gruppe. 'River Seine, Pont d’Ilena and Eiffel Tower.' Oil on canvas, 1917. 76.2 × 60.96 cm.

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The long barrow at All Cannings, seen here from 400ft.

Mount St. Helens is located 52 miles (83 km) north of Portland, Oregon, and 98 miles (158 km) south of Seattle in Washington State. A 1980 eruption of its volcano reduced the peak elevation from 9,677 feet (2,950 meters) to the current peak elevation of 8,363 ft (2,549 m).

Rick's #Astrophotography Picture of the Day (from my growing collection of captures) - https://ift.tt/lykmSBc

Dusk at the cottage. Very peaceful tonight. #dusk

Ralph Goodale on Pete Hoekstra: "He really should remember that his role has changed. He's no longer the Michigan politician. He's a diplomat and an ambassador, and he should behave in a diplomatic fashion that is respectable in the country in which he is located."

some space images never stop taking my breath away, no matter how many times i’ve seen them. space is art.

Know the difference

A Webb image of IC 348, a star-forming region about 1,000 light-years away. This near-infrared vista of IC 348 reveals also brown dwarfs, objects smaller than the smallest stars.

I did a mosaic with the Dwarf Mini last night of M31. I used Naz's script for smart telescopes to combine the panels, and processed it in Siril and Gimp. This is the result. Each of the panels (2x2) is a stack of 100 30-second sub frames. @naztronomy.com @kat-astro-bot.bsky.social #astrophotography

Available here linda-howes.pixels.com/featured/hub... #wallart #wallartforsale #gifts #giftideas #space #doomedStar #Explodes #supernova #NASA #hubbleSpacetelescope #astronomy #dust #stars #cosmic #universe #celestial #homedecor #galaxy #spiral

Mark Carney: "Very senior U.S. officials have directly made suggestions, intervened, so to speak, in Canadian sovereignty, Canadian democratic processes, encouraged certain outcomes, encouraged certain peoples through that process."

🗣️ This is your flight captain speaking 🪶✈️ Keep your seatbelts fastened as we glide across NSF–DOE Rubin Observatory's view of the Seagull Nebula! 🔭🧪 On your screen, you’ve got a front-row seat to young stars reshaping their stellar neighborhoods. Sit back, relax, and enjoy!🪽

MONTY PYTHON AND THE HOLY GRAIL (1975) — in LEGO

🤣🤣🤣 Rule of law and the constitution needs to become reality again ✌️🕊️🤔

Ask Ethan: Can we solve the mysteries of the largest black holes? In 2004, black hole TON 618 was announced: with a mass of 66 billion Suns, just 3 billion years after the Big Bang. The theoretical limit was 50 billion Suns by today. So what gives? bigthink.com/starts-with-... #space #astro

rubin observatory just released this STUNNING image of the seagull nebula, located about 3,700 light-years away 🥹🌌

Case of mysterious medieval skeleton buried in Roman-era sarcophagus at Westminster Abbey finally solved The medieval skeleton is likely an abbot from 993-1052 CE. The coffin was originally for a Roman named Valerius Amandinus. Nearly 1,000 years of mystery. I call dibs next. 😂 🏺

The Triangulum Galaxy (M33) is the second closest large spiral galaxy to the Milky Way. It is about half the size of our galaxy. This photo highlights some regions of nebulosity within M33 using narrow band Ha data. Total exp: 8 hrs, several sessions Oct 2026 Ha+RGB #astronomy #astrophotography

Stars are brewing in this cosmic cauldron! ♨️ This star-forming region captured by Webb is located 161,000 light-years away in the Large Magellanic Cloud. It is filled with hot young stars, which are sculpting the hydrogen gas that surrounds them. Read more 👉 www.esa.int/ESA_Multimed... 🔭 🧪

📡 LIVE IN 2 HOURS! Why are fast radio bursts more common toward galaxy clusters? Join Dr. Lauren Sgro and Dr. Mawson W. Sammons TODAY on #SETILive to explore this cosmic mystery! 🕙 10 am PDT 🔴 youtube.com/live/xk66kZ3... 🧪 🔭 👩‍🔬

John Manley on claims Mélanie Joly's comments were election interference: "I don't think it's election interference at all. It's a rational response to tariffs that were imposed by the US in contravention of CUSMA. If they impose tariffs, we're perfectly entitled to respond."

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A haunted house for introverts: People jump out unexpectedly and try to make small talk with you. Just when you think you’ve made it out, you enter a room full of people networking, and everyone wants to introduce themselves and exchange contact information

A lovely Romano-British brooch in the form of a cheerful little hare! ❤️ Copper alloy decorated with enamel, 2nd-3rd century AD. 📷 British Museum www.britishmuseum.org/collection/o... #Archaeology

My solar wind connection dashboard ☀️🌍 The faster wind is easing: ~440 km/s, down from ~525 yesterday. Density is ~4 per cm³ and the field ~6 nT, still pointing south. Kp reached 4.7 last night, just below storm level. Earth is still connected to the Sun's west limb.

Look what just flew into view! 🪶✨ Meet the Seagull Nebula as seen by NSF–DOE Rubin Observatory's engineering test camera, ComCam. Two years ago this month, ComCam began on-sky testing — the first time Rubin opened its eye to the sky! 🔗: rubinobservatory.org/news/rubin-c...

It's been a bad week for the MAGASTAN embassy in Ottawa. Their efforts to break apart our nation in the referendum went down in flames. So now lying Pete Hoekstra is setting the stage to target us when MAGA gets trashed in the mid-terms.