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Some of the new Hubble observations show the Cat’s Eye Nebula, also known as NGC 6543, in the finest detail ever seen. The nebula lies some 4,400 light-years away from Earth.
Peaceful Observers To Our Beloved Guardian Angels, In these times of profound trial, when darkness sought to engulf our community, you emerged as trembled of unwavering light. When fear gripped our hearts and the very fabric of our existence beacons under the shadow of masked agents-when we were hunted, chased, and made to feel as strangers in the place we call home- you stood tall You stood with us. With courage that defied the chill of winter winds and compassion that warmed the coldest nights, you became our shield. You left the comfort of your daily lives, your workplaces, your routines, to stand guard at our doors. You brought us the gift of warning-the loud sirens that pierced the silence of impending danger, grving us precious moments to seek shelter, to protect our children, to preserve our dignity. You did not merely observe; you acted. You confronted hatred face-to-face. You stood between us and the agents of fear, becoming the voice for the voiceless, the strength for the weary, and the hope for the hopeless. In your presence, we found sanctuary. In your resolve, we found resilience. Your bravery is a testament to the boundless capacity of the human spirit. You stood against the tides of xenophobia, Islamophobia, and every form of prejudice that seeks to divide humanity. You embodied the highest ideals of human dignity, honor, and solidarity. You reminded us-and the world-that America's true strength lies in its embrace of those who seek refuge, its promise of freedom, and its unwavering stand for justice. Your sacrifice will echo through generations. We will tell our children, and they will tell theirs, of the guardian angels who stood tall when hate knocked at our doors. Your legacy is etched in the heart of our community-a living history of compassion without limits, courage without borders.
This newly processed image from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope is the clearest view yet of the Egg Nebula. It is a preplanetary nebula, a structure of gas and dust created as a Sun-like star approaches the end of its life. The Egg that we see now will eventually hatch, revealing a white dwarf at its centre and leaving its shell to become a spectacular planetary nebula.Many preplanetary nebulae are relatively dim and hard to spot. They are made of layers of gas ejected by the star, but that star is not yet hot enough to ionise the gas and cause it to glow. The Egg Nebula is relatively unique, easily visible as a sparkling jewelled egg in space. Powerful beams of starlight blast out of the inner cloud, two a-side, giving a breathtaking illumination to this cosmic structure. Fast-moving outflows of hot molecular hydrogen also emerge from within the dust cloud, visible just at the base of the searchlight beams. These outflows glow with infrared light, which is shown in this image by orange highlights.The central cloud of dust is surrounded by concentric rings, themselves made up from thin, faint arcs of gas. These were created by successive outbursts from the central star, which ejected a little more material from its outer surface every few hundred years. The beams of starlight are reflected by these layers of gas, creating an appearance like ripples on the surface of water. The way that gas molecules reflect and scatter light gives a bluish colour to the arcs. The reflected starlight reveals important details about the central star, which is impossible to view directly in its dusty shell.[Image description: In the centre an opaque cloud of grey gas hides a star. Two strong beams of light from the star emerge from large holes in both sides of the cloud. The central cloud is surrounded by concentric, wispy shells of gas, illuminated by the star’s light. The shells reflect extra light where they’re hit by the twin beams. A crowd of smaller stars with cross-shaped sp…
And then this: do not depend on the hope of results. When you are doing the sort of work you have taken on, essentially an apostolic work, you may have to face the fact that your work will be apparently worthless and even achieve no result at all, if not perhaps results opposite to what you expect. As you get used to this idea you start more and more to concentrate not on the results but on the value, the rightness, the truth of the work itself. And there too a great deal has to be gone through, as gradually you struggle less and less for an idea and more and more for specific people. The range tends to narrow down, but it gets much more real. In the end, as you yourself mention in passing, it is the reality of personal relationships that saves everything.
ODE TO FRANCISCO SALINAS To Francisco Salinas Catedrático de Música de la Universidad de Salamanca The air becomes serene and is clothed in beauty and strange radiance, Salinas, when there sounds the incomparable music governed by your skilled hand. At that heavenly sound my soul, that is sunk in forgetfulness, recovers its judgement and the lost memory of its first, exalted origin. And as it knows itself, it improves its fate and thought; it disdains the gold that the blind multitude worships, and perishable, deceitful beauty. It traverses the ether until it reaches the highest sphere, and there it hears another mode of imperishable music, the first, the source of all.
toad sits in water surrounded by hopeful vocalizations...
“My opinion is that we were doing comedies. You can laugh a lot.” He added that they were not pessimistic. “I only ask this – how did you feel when you came out of the movie theatre after watching my film? Did you feel stronger or weaker? That’s the main question. I want you to be stronger.”
Our wedding photograph, 43 years ago, badly xerox'ed, taken in a Royal St. video arcade photobooth. When you move by Greyhound it's amazing anything gets kept...
Rome restaurant menu gazing w/Elsie in 2005?
Tehran protester stops a police motorcycle column.
In the first subtype, patients had high levels of sNfL early on in the disease, with visible damage in a part of the brain called the corpus callosum. They also developed brain lesions quickly. This type appears to be more aggressive and active, scientists said. In the second subtype, patients showed brain shrinkage in areas like the limbic cortex and deep grey matter before sNfL levels went up. This type seems to be slower, with overt damage occurring later.
A video of a protester sitting in the street and facing down police on motorbikes during demonstrations that erupted in Tehran in recent days has gone viral on social media, with some observers calling it Iran's "Tiananmen moment". Protesters including shopkeepers and university students have been rallying against
biggest crowds yet in the buddhist walk for peace in decatur, georgia.
Nazaré - Lucas Chumbo surfs the mountain
Boy in a window looks at the snow
born in 2003 in Prince George’s County. Today, instead of preparing for Christmas with her family, she is being held inside an ICE detention facility in Louisiana, 1,200 miles away from the hospital where she entered the world as an American citizen.
waterbird landing very ungracefully:
Chinese concentration camp
Another photo entry titled 'Baptism of the Unwilling Convert' PHOTO: Grayson Bell/Nikon Comedy Wildlife Awards
BRITISH PHOTOGRAPHER MARK METH-COHN WON THE ACCOLADE FOR HIS PHOTO, WHICH WAS TAKEN IN RWANDA EARLIER THIS YEAR
Charles Ludlam's "Le Bourgeois Avant-Garde" in the Village Voice
too cool pic of 17 y.o. me in '72 at Four Corners, on a cross country camping trip.
An image of the ruins of Chetro Ketl in Chaco Canyon (New Mexico, United States); shown is the complex's great kiva.