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Idk what to put here anymore. I play VRChat.. and do a little DJing sometimes.. | Minors DNI 🔞丨he/him/they/them
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A very close view of the craters that cover the surface of Saturn’s icy moon Rhea. NASA’s Cassini mission made this flyby in January 2011, passing within 76 kilometers (47 miles) at a speed of 8 km/sec (18,000 mph). This image had a resolution up to 22.6 meters per pixel towards the closer terrain.
A cratered and fractured terrain. NASA/JPL-Caltech/SSI/CICLOPS/Kevin M. Gill
November 23, 2025 at 1:31 AM
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🔭 Dione and Rhea Ring Transit

Image Credit & Copyright: Christopher Go

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Seen to the left of Saturn's banded planetary disk, small icy moons Dione and Rhea are caught passing in front of the gas giant's extensive ring system in this sharp telescopic snapshot. The remarkable image was recorded on November 20, when Saturn's rings were nearly edge-on when viewed from planet Earth. In fact, every 13 to 16 years the view from planet Earth aligns with Saturn's ring plane to produce a series of ring plane crossings. During a ring plane crossing, the interplanetary edge-on perspective makes the thin but otherwise bright rings seem to disappear. By November 23rd Saturn's rings will have reached a minimum angle for now, at their narrowest for viewing from planet Earth, but then start to widen again. Of course, Dione and Rhea orbit Saturn near the ring plane once every 2.7 and 4.5 days respectively, while the next series of Saturn ring plane crossings as seen from Earth will begin again in 2038.
November 22, 2025 at 8:00 AM
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The stars would be proud to know they became someone like you
November 21, 2025 at 4:29 AM
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🔭 Alnitak, Alnilam, Mintaka

Image Credit & Copyright: Aygen Erkaslan

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Alnitak, Alnilam, and Mintaka are the bright bluish stars from east to west (upper right to lower left) along the diagonal in this cosmic vista. Otherwise known as the Belt of Orion, these three blue supergiant stars are hotter and much more massive than the Sun. They lie from 700 to 2,000 light-years away, born of Orion's well-studied interstellar clouds. In fact, clouds of gas and dust adrift in this region have some surprisingly familiar shapes, including the dark Horsehead Nebula and Flame Nebula near Alnitak at the upper right. The famous Orion Nebula itself is off the right edge of this colorful starfield. The telescopic frame spans almost 4 degrees on the sky.
November 20, 2025 at 8:00 AM
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#PPOD: This is the central region of the Bullet Cluster, comprised of two massive galaxy clusters. The vast number of galaxies and foreground stars in the image was captured by NASA’s JWST in near-infrared light. Glowing, hot X-rays captured by NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory appear in pink. 🧪 🔭
Landscape image full of galaxies, featuring in particular, two galaxy clusters that make up a region known as the Bullet Cluster. At the center is a pink cloud that represents X-rays mapped by Chandra. To either side are blueish "clouds" that are actually the mapped areas of dark matter as determined by JWST's infrared observations.
November 19, 2025 at 4:02 PM
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The crests of two ridges to the west and northwest of the Mars Perseverance Rover. Imaged using MastCam-Z yesterday on Sol 1687.

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November 19, 2025 at 4:34 PM
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🔭 Chamaeleon Dark Nebulas

Image Credit & Copyright: Xinran Li & Houbo Zhao

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The featured image shows a dark nebula complex involving thick dust appearing brown and making a big
November 19, 2025 at 8:00 AM
zaxman.gay
I see the internet decided to not exist again today
November 18, 2025 at 1:36 PM
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ducc.bsky.social
I need to make $2000 AUD ( 1200 USD ) to cover bond and 1 week of rent, so my commissions are open for 3D modeling and art.

I know I already owe some art I am working really hard to get through it all this week 😭

If anyone needs hair, clothing assets etc please hmu 😩😔
November 18, 2025 at 1:30 AM
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California #nebula in #Perseus ... Andy Dungan captured this view of the #Californianebula from near Cotopaxi, Colorado, on Saturday. Thank you, Andy! 🌌🔭📸
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Go to EarthSky Community Photos to see more great images, and submit your own recent photos:

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Long, wispy cloud-like formation in space, with bright bluish star to its right.
November 18, 2025 at 1:00 AM
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headache :(
November 17, 2025 at 12:45 PM
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🔭 Comet Lemmon's Wandering Tail

Image Credit: Ignacio Fernández

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A starfield is shown above a mountain peak. Just above the mountain and extending up toward the upper right is a blue-tinted tail of a comet. The comet's head is just to the left of the peak. Please see the explanation for more detailed information.
November 17, 2025 at 8:00 AM
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YOU GUYS WANNA SEE SOMETHING CURSED???? HOW ABOUT NEON GENESIS LEHIGH VALLEY PHANTOMS HOCKEY?????
November 16, 2025 at 11:25 PM
zaxman.gay
went to bed at 10am this morning oops
November 15, 2025 at 9:46 PM
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🔭 Andromeda and Friends

Image Credit & Copyright: Piotr Czerski

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This magnificent extragalactic skyscape looks toward the Andromeda Galaxy, the closest large spiral galaxy to the Milky Way. It also accomplishes a Messier catalog trifecta by including Andromeda, cataloged as Messier 31 (M31), along with Messier 32 (M32), and Messier 110 (M110) in the same telescopic field of view. In this frame, M32 is just left of the Andromeda Galaxy's bright core with M110 below and to the right. M32 and M110 are both elliptical galaxies themselves and satellites of the larger spiral Andromeda. By combining 60 hours of broadband and narrowband image data, the deep telescopic view also reveals tantalizing details of dust lanes, young star clusters, and star-forming regions along Andromeda's spiral arms, and faint, foreground clouds of glowing hydrogen gas. For now, Andromeda and friends are some 2.5 million light-years from our own large spiral Milky Way.
November 15, 2025 at 8:00 AM
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jesus christ bro all this over a fuckin AI poster
November 15, 2025 at 2:18 AM
zaxman.gay
i look away from bsky for an HOUR, good lord this community sometimes lol
November 15, 2025 at 1:56 AM
zaxman.gay
head hurty
November 14, 2025 at 8:55 PM
zaxman.gay
how the fuck is 2025 almost over, I feel like I blacked out in February/March and now it's mid November....
November 14, 2025 at 4:25 AM
zaxman.gay
everyone being able to see the aurora except me bc of constant cloud cover this week
November 14, 2025 at 3:22 AM
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2 hours version #astrophotography #astronomy 🔭 @kat-astro-bot.bsky.social @siril.org @gimpofficial.bsky.social
IC1805 Heart Nebula
November 13, 2025 at 8:37 PM
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THANK YOU SHELTERCON!!!! @sheltervr.club 💕💕💕💕💕💕💕💕💕
I got to play at the beach party at sheltercon, &had such a wonderful time, thank you again @snaxbeats.bsky.social for helping me with the 3000x holy shit had the time of my life ahhh🥺🥺🥺🥺🥺
Can’t wait for next year!! 💙💙

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November 13, 2025 at 7:04 PM
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🔭 Orion and the Running Man

Image Credit & Copyright: R. Jay Gabany

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Few cosmic vistas can excite the imagination like The Great Nebula in Orion. Visible as a faint, bland celestial smudge to the naked eye, the nearest large star-forming region sprawls across this sharp colourful telescopic image. Designated M42 in the Messier Catalogue, the Orion Nebula's glowing gas and dust surrounds hot, young stars. About 40 light-years across, M42 is at the edge of an immense interstellar molecular cloud only 1,500 light-years away that lies within the same spiral arm of our Milky Way galaxy as the Sun. Including dusty bluish reflection nebula NGC 1977, also known as the Running Man nebula at left in the frame, the natal nebulae represent only a small fraction of our galactic neighbourhood's wealth of star-forming material. Within the well-studied stellar nursery, astronomers have also identified what appear to be numerous infant solar systems.
November 13, 2025 at 8:00 AM