Herbig-Haro 24

This might look like a double-bladed lightsaber, but these two cosmic jets actually beam outward from a newborn star in a galaxy near you. Constructed from Hubble Space Telescope image data, the stunning scene spans about half a light-year across Herbig-Haro 24 (HH 24), some 1,300 light-years or 400 parsecs away in the stellar nurseries of the Orion B molecular cloud complex. Hidden from direct view, HH 24's central protostar is surrounded by cold dust and gas flattened into a rotating accretion disk. As material from the disk falls toward the young stellar object, it heats up. Opposing jets are blasted out along the system's rotation axis. Cutting through the region's interstellar matter, the narrow, energetic jets produce a series of glowing shock fronts along their path.

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Hot new James Webb Space Telescope image just dropped. And this one's a banger.

Meet the galaxy cluster Abell S1063.
"This behemoth collection of galaxies, lying 4.5 billion light-years from Earth in the constellation Grus (the Crane), dominates the scene. Looking more closely, this dense collection of heavy galaxies is surrounded by glowing streaks of light, and these warped arcs are the true object of scientists’ interest: faint galaxies from the Universe’s distant past."

"With 9 separate snapshots of different near-infrared wavelengths of light, totalling around 120 hours of observing time and aided by the magnifying effect of gravitational lensing, this is Webb’s deepest gaze on a single target to date."

#Astronomy #JWST #Galaxies

Als racisten, autoritairen en rechtsnationalisten zich roeren en een brief schrijven tegen mensenrechten, is Elchardus daar om ze te steunen. Echte volkssolidariteit. Ofzo.

Caption I originally posted this with:
"This is definitely me."

Edit 1: Google image search shows this meme showed up on Facebook 5 years ago, so no AI.

Edit 2: Well, I stand corrected. It shows up in 5 year old threads, the actual image indeed seem to be AI contrary to what I thought. Should that matter in this context? I personally don't think so but hey, you do you.

Thanks for all the interaction. Have a nice day.

making this one because this is actually how some of yall sound like

-carrie

Sign the Polluters Pay Pact:

👉 https://act-int.greenpeace.org/polluters-pay-pact

#MakePollutersPay

Laaaaaaanges Hörnchen 🌰🌰🐿️

#balkonhörnchen #eichhörnchen #squirrel #squirrelcontent #squirrels

A dinner time story. Young ground squirrel tastes the baby rose bush. It nibbles on the privet. Next it tries out the salvia buds. Finally it settles on the plate of fruit and nut seed mix I’ve set out. It’s good to keep your options open and try new things ☺️

Hörnchen in a box 🌰 🐿️ 😍
Schönen Sonntag.

#balkonhörnchen #eichhörnchen #squirrel #squirrelcontent #squirrels

Fuchswelpe auf der Jagt... nach Blümchen :)

#fuchs #rotfuchs #welpe

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wow

notre dame und eiffelturm in einem bild

Announcing: https://justaqrcode.com.

Tired of "free" QR code generators that are full of ads and trackers, that share your data, and that want to sell you something? Me too. Here's my act of resistance: I made a one-page site that works entirely in your browser to generate a simple QR code. And that's all it does. You can download the HTML page and run it locally, even. Read the source; nothing up my sleeves. Just a QR code.

My offer to you -- I will continue to pay for the domain name and web hosting for it, myself. If you find it valuable, you can pay it back by creating your own useful thing for the world and releasing it for free. Let's take back the friendly web, one vexingly-monetized utility at a time!

#QRcode #Free #FriendlyWeb #Resistance

Here’s an idea: Stop acting like the Gestapo.

Firefly taking flight

My wife just shared with me that one of her colleagues has her son at home for a two week visit right now.

He's a student at Harvard. His visa has just been revoked and he cannot return to the US.

His life, his academic career, all his belongings - just cut off. Extraordinary. What a global humiliation this US fascism is.