Judy Schmidt

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top down aerial view of a suburban neighborhood with squared cul de sacs and an artificial blue water feature behind the backsides of the houses. the roads are marked by white lines, and somehow one of them connects to the water feature, mistaking it for a street in several places.
Hubble lego model with panels taken off. two inset images show close-ups of the interior.
A tabby and white cat looks surly about being on a human’s lap at a computer desk. Don’t you even dare think about standing.
a living room scene. a person is on a sofa. a dog is on the left part of the sofa, while a person covered in a blanket is to the right, next to the dog. a cat is laying on the person’s legs. everyone is cozy. the dog stinks.
a centipede under uv light. some ground dwelling plant life is fluorescing red. the centipede has some whiteish highlights along its sides and legs.
An animation showing many views of Jupiter during the Shoemaker-Levy 9 fragmentation and impact event. One view shows only a moon being eclipsed. Several others show impact plumes along the limb of the planet. Others show the "burnt" cloud tops of impact scars expanding. There are also some views of the dark brown impact scars mixing in with the fluid atmosphere of the gas giant. They're all in color, too, and the writer of this alt text assures the reader that a metric fuckton of work went into making them color.
Tiny hatchlings. Their breathing is quick, like typical tiny creatures. Their skin is so thin it looks like you can see the redness of their blood and the rapid pulsation of their heartbeats. The closer hatchling is moving around more while the rear hatchling seems to be restful. At the end of the video, a human index finger nearly eclipses the pair to give a sense of scale. The human is speaking in whispered awe about how cute and small they are.
two tiny baby hummingbirds nestled tightly together in their tiny nest. They have a little fluff on their backs that looks slightly damp. the beginning spikes of feathers ate growing out of their bodies. their eyes are shut. the nest looks very soft and cozy. mama hummingbird is away foraging.
a hand opens a drawer. it slides open smoothly to reveal a trove of many different cables and some cable ties too
Diagram of Neptune showing outer moons on the left and inner moons in blow-up diagram on the right. The outer moons are very disorganized encircling the planet in many different ways and Neptune is just a small dot when showing them, because they are far out. The inner moons are a lot more organized and Neptune is big enough to see as a disk in the center of them.
An already grumpy tabby cat has been photoshopped with the "liquefy" tool to make him look cartoonishly grumpy with a very frowny mouth and extra narrowed eyes
A long nebula that is actually shaped like weird donut or torus seen from the side. There are also a bunch of stars in the line of sight. The animation blinks between the views of the same nebula by two different telescopes years apart. The first is a visible light and near-infrared image while the second is a fully near and mid-infrared image. The proper motion of the stars can be seen, along with the motion of the nebula. The nebula moves the most, though it is difficult to see how far it moves because of the soft edges.
The face of a gray tabby cat with eyes shut in enjoyment with a human hand scratching and rubbing the top of the cat’s head.
A hummingbird frantically peeping and flying left and right while a human records a quick peek at her teeny eggs in her tiny nest. The human says, “She does not want me here. Look at ‘em, though!”
A modern style house with a little free banned library, a giant fake 15 foot tall skeleton holding the sign to reelect local politician Mani Grewal, and a rainbow pride flag in the window.
A hummingbird resting in a nest. It looks toward the camera briefly and then flies away. Even when resting, the tiny bird still has a frenetic appearance.
A hummingbird nest! A tiny woven mound of dried grass held together with strands of spiderwebs sitting atop one of the lights on a party light string. it’s shaded by a porch cover. there are various trees out of focus in the background.
A multispectral color image of some part of Mars. As with most of Mars, there are a whole lot of craters. Notably, a bunch of the craters in the lower left look like they have comet tails stretching out long across the surface. A lot of the craters have bright rims on the left side of them and dark floors. Some features resembling rivers are etched across the lower smoother dark part that only has small craters. This doesn't mean they were ever rivers. The writer of this text doesn't know enough about terrestrial imaging to give information about what the various colors mean. The darker areas tend to be blues and purples while the lighter areas tend to be yellows.
A star-infused nebula. The cloud of the nebula is mostly pale with very faint coloration, but there is a little swoosh at the top that is like a blue glint, and another blue bit near the right side that is part of a jet. The shape of a nebula is like a lumpy mountain turned on its side. Dozens of sparkling yellow and orange stars dot the image. Many fainter white and blue stars sprinkle the image. The star of note is the brightest one just left and below the center. It glows yellow.
A black and white image of a whole bunch of images put together to form a mosaic of a very wide view of the night sky. The edges of every square are very easy to see, which is not preferable with image mosaicking. There's a very bright diagonal line across the lower left corner of the image, and a fainter horizontal set of lines across the center. The Rho Ophiuchi cloud complex sits left of center in a vaguely D shape. It says allWISE W3 in the upper left. A compass showing "north" up and "east" left is in the lower right. A scale bar indicating a width of 10 degrees in the lower left. The entire field of view is noted to be 56.4 degrees wide by 34.4 degrees high in the lower center.
A simple cartoon style anthropomorphized frog standing as if trying to reach for something. He wears a brown jacket and some gray pinstripe pants. No shoes. Long feet. Green skin. Bulbous white eyes with black horizontal pupils. Medium blue background.
An eerie view of the moon from the Artemis craft. It is mostly a black disk. There is a faint illumination on the left side of the sphere, presumably from Earthshine. Faint round indentations and crater rims are visible. The Zodiacal light glows in sunshine from behind. A pale greenish cast, which is not real, but looks creepy, slightly colors the image.
A rock cracked in half with lots of crystals inside. A blue light is cast upon it, the visible part of a UV flashlight. One crystal formation in particular is glowing orange. The crystals are shaped differently from the other crystals in the geode, being flat and stacked like a mound of pancakes.
a worm’s eye view of a gray tabby cat in a cozy cat bed with her paw stretched out toward the camera in a very foreshortened way
A beautiful, hollowed out cloud of a nebula illuminated from within by a cluster of blue stars in the center. There are soft patches of magenta and red overlaid atop a golden hued cloud. Background galaxies also dot the image, including a rather pleasing one in the lower left.
a drawing of the sun on the left and the earth on the right with one arm each outstretched to shake hands. the style is that of an uncoordinated hand, in this case, a young child. the paper is creased many times from being folded into a small rectangle.
A rainbow stretches across a dark, cloudy sky over some recently tilled farmland. The top of the rainbow has some curtain-like streaks in it where the rain is falling less smoothly
Colored pencil sketch of a cedar waxwing bird on blue paper with pencils strewn about. Its head and upper body are colored, but its feet, tail, and a branch are sketchy lines. It has a peachy brown head with a black beak and black mask and a black eye. Its body is a smooth gradient to a yellow belly and a gray wing.
an unfinished drawing of a brownish crested bird with a black beak and black eye with a black mask over its eyes and stark white outlines touching the black parts. the bird has a very smooth gradation in the brownish parts. only the head is colored. the body is just an outline with some white under coloring applied so far
The image, now in color, provides a stark contrast between the diffraction spikes and the actual nebula. Starlight pours in from the upper right, while a very red "leg" extends outward from between the two much brighter diffraction spikes. Small blue points and reddish smudges dot the image, showing where stars and background galaxies are.
Annotated version of the same image from earlier in the thread. "Diffraction spike" is labeled on top of the three JWST diffraction spikes. Arrows point to the HST diffraction spikes. The "X" part of the nebula has one "Leg" labeled, and the lines between the legs of the X are labeled as "Rungs". The star has an arrow pointing to it (however the star is actually obscured by a ring of dust, not easy to see in the image). Also noted is that the "Legs" are connected and have a continuous repeating pattern, but the two different telescopes with different seeing capabilities do not properly show it.
A grayscale astronomical image of an object known as the Red Rectangle. At the upper right, a smaller, rotated frame showing the star and inner part of the nebula. Though it is called a rectangle, it clearly shows an X-shaped pattern. At the lower left is a larger frame showing a leg of the X extended out far beyond the small frame. There are a lot of blank areas because the two images did not overlap very much. There are large, bright diffraction spikes appearing as repeating dash and linear patterns covering many parts of the nebula, making it difficult to see details where they are covering.
A bangle, a ring, and a bracelet sitting in a row. They are made of silver and natural stones and appear to be of traditional Navajo design. The bangle is wide and has a single, large cabochon of blueish green turquoise with a small brownish vein of matrix running through the middle. It has scrollwork and stamping and is tarnished. The ring features an inlaid circle of crushed turquoise and three inlaid "rain drop" shapes of pinkish orangeish crushed coral. Spheres of silver are nestled between the inlays. The third bracelet is a simple, narrow bracelet featuring alternating rectangles of inlaid crushed coral and turquoise.
A video game screenshot of the back side of a fantasy style house with a lot of plant life on the ground. The plants are very lush and surround an arrangement of stones which just happen to read "ABOLISH ICE"
A serene night time view. The stars are sparkling in the cloudless, deep blue sky. Palm trees and other random plants are placed artfully in the scene, along with some boulders for natural aesthetics. In the center, some thick wood beams spell the words "FUCK ICE" and they are illuminated from below and behind by flames.
A low-quality reproduction of what was once a very finely detailed engineering diagram of a rocket engine. There are big circles and ovals and lots of lines that look like pipework or tubes connecting all the various pieces and several cutaway sections. There is text labeling all the parts but it's illegible. All in all, a rather confusing image for the person writing this description, because they don't know exactly what they're looking at.
A person with a smaller person on their shoulders standing in front of a mural of a mythical dragon-like horse (Qilin) and man in a red robe. The two people have had their identities concealed by happy yellow emoji faces.
A gray tabby cat laying on a tan blanket and light gray carpet. her hind legs are outstretched and she’s holding herself up with her forelegs because she was interrupted from grooming her belly. her mouth is open mid meow and looks like a happy smile
Two irregular, bright, and pale blue galaxies sit together. One is long while the other looks more like a ball. A faint stream of stars trails from the ball galaxy to the lower right. A few small, red Milky Way stars dot the image. Many faint background galaxies are scattered throughout without distracting from the subjects of the image.
A sketchy, unfinished painting of a purple dragon laying on the ground in a greenish landscape with a pale yellow and purple sky in the background. There are some wiry trees and some very poorly rendered foliage.
An unfinished, sketchy painting of a gnarly old white dragon on a dark background looking up at nothing in particular. Its wing is at rest, and its long, thin tail is curling toward the viewer. There are scant colors in the image. The face is somewhat detailed, but most of the other parts are nebulous at best.
A sharp view of a very dusty spiral galaxy. The center glows with a pale but warm yellowish light with two prominent arms of brown dust encircling it. Multiple pockets of blue stars are visible between the spiraling lanes of dust, and a smooth, soft blue halo of light fades to darkness at the edge of the galaxy as the stars and dust become more sparse. A few orangey background galaxies are visible through the dust. The scene is almost absent of Milky Way stars, making it a very clear view of the galaxy.
Album cover art for Def Leppard modified digitally to replace "Def Leppard" with "RFK Jr" and the title "Hysteria" with "Listeria". The art from the cover is from a time when artists used airbrush and paintbrush and taped and glued things together physically before creating some final art piece. There is a conglomeration of strange white and green human faces screaming. A red triangle dominates the cover. There are geometric lines creating arcs that form a circular shape. Some angular ones form triangles. The lines seem kind of sci-fi. It's difficult to convey the multiple negative feelings the cover evokes due to the artistic nature of it, but the original title of Hysteria lends a clue.
An extravagantly colored spiral galaxy. Red, orange, dusty arms of infrared light blend together in one splotchy, swirling mess. Bright patches of speckled star formation dot the arms all over, some tiny and some large and complex. Soft, blue x-ray light is seen along a diagonal axis from the upper left to lower right, along with some small fuzzy dots speckling the image in seemingly unrelated ways. The center is bright white with relatively smaller magenta colored jets along the same diagonal axis.
A cat with gray stripe fur around his eyes and ears and white fur on his belly, feet, and nose laying upside down on a tan carpet. He has green, narrow slit eyes and is very much enjoying a soak in the bright sunlight. His pink nose looks foreshortened and larger than usual due to camera optics. One of his ears is flooded under his head.
A US style electrical outlet. There large black are scorch marks emanating from the top prong holes.
A serene celestial scene with soft and subtle blue clouds and a scattering of stars. The three brightest stars are nestled within a central hollow of the nebula. Their light gently reflects from the nearby cloud rim, shadowing into a vignette at the periphery. A few of the stars stand out with an orange glow. There is a tiny but noteworthy orange "hamburger" of an accreting star in the left half of the image. Looking closer, one can see the "buns" are actually broad cones of light and the "patty" is the shadow of the accreting disk of dust. The star itself is unseen. This is actually the subject of study for the image.
A screenshot of an email. The header features a smiling, fully bearded man in a blue suit and yellow tie, with the title text assemblyman Juan Alanis, 22nd assembly district. The text of the email read simply: Dear Neighbor, Newsom Bad Redistrict Bad Sincerely, Juan Alanis, Assemblyman, District 22
The Cat's Paw Nebula in visible light from ESO with a tiny postage stamp of infrared light from JWST in the upper left corner. The nebula looks vaguely like a cat's paw reaching from the upper right with toes to the lower left. It's very red and magenta with a bunch of blue stars. The JWST image also looks like a cat's paw, sort of, with three toe beans covering its postage stamp, but it's actually just a tiny fraction of the overall nebula in the upper left quadrant. It's hard to make up all but the largest details of the JWST image. There's a white border around the inset image to make it easier to stand out, otherwise it might actually get lost because the image is so detailed and messy and the inset is so small.
A starry space scene. There are small blue stars scattered randomly but fairly evenly around the image. One bright star dominates the image left of center by several orders of magnitude. It is surrounded by reddish orange shells which visually appear as rings or a very tightly wound spiral. Each shell is almost exactly the same shape as the shell preceding it, resulting in an unusual geometric oddity. The slightly imperfectly circular shapes further lend to the baffling presentation of the image. There are 8 prominent blueish multi-colored diffraction spikes interjecting from the star. They are hard to ignore, but have little meaning beyond indicating that the star was very bright on the detector of the telescope.
A close-up of the center of the Apep star system. The image is grayscale. It's a bit blurry because it's been enlarged digitally. The bright star at the center is overexposed along with small parts of the nebula, but the rest is remarkably detailed. The somewhat circular swirl of a nebula has a bumpy texture. The nebula has a wide, round head, with a tapering tail curled around it. It evokes embryonic imagery, or... perhaps a cat curled around a star.
A nebula with a bright star at its center. The nebula has three distinct layers, and the pattern in the layers repeats in a way that implies there are more layers outside the image boundaries, though they would be faint. The shape of the nebula is something like nesting yin yangs, with the center smallest one bright and dense, shining, smooth and golden. The middle one is orange and textured like a sherpa blanket. The largest, outer shell is fainter, and red like an ember. Its texture has softened along with its dissipation into space. There are some small stars speckled around the image, and one annoyingly bright, spiky one that's got too many colors because of the way the light spreads from point sources through the telescope's optics. A pale haze of grayish cloud also covers the scene, but it is sheer and translucent.