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1. Graphic showing asteroid 2024 YR4’s potential locations on December 22, 2032, estimated last year on June 3, 2025. 2. Graphic showing new estimate of asteroid 2024 YR4’s potential locations on December 22, 2032. The locations now lie on the far side of the moon.

Sorry, new data from NASA JWST indicates that asteroid 2024 YR4 will not crash into the moon on Dec. 22 2032, as predicted earlier with 4.3% prob; instead, it will fly by 21,200 km away on the far side of the moon.

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Yes -- Clonezilla would be my first choice also. Rescuezilla is another possibility.

Some political careers age badly YouTube video by Tod Maffin

"Yellow girl"??!?

The Cone Nebula This is the iconic pillar in NGC 2264, ~2,500 away in Monoceros, rising from a fiery red sea. It looks dark and monstrous against a glowing crimson hydrogen backdrop, blue crest shining with scattered stars. Hits me hard every time—how stars savage the gas cloud to shape it, yet spark brand-new suns in the exact same chaos. Total proof the cosmos is raw, alive, and insanely gorgeous. Source: https://esahubble.org/images/heic0206f/ Credits: NASA, H. Ford (JHU), G. Illingworth (UCSC/LO), M. Clampin (STScI), G. Hartig (STScI), the ACS Science Team, and ESA.

Mystic Mountain in the Carina Nebula This picture never fails to mess with me—like I’ve accidentally stepped into some brutal, jagged fantasy landscape that’s actively on fire. Hubble snagged it in 2010: a rough spike of gas & dust lost in the insane storm that is the Carina Nebula, sitting about 7,500 light-years out. Tiny new stars are losing their minds inside, shooting Herbig-Haro jets everywhere like they’re trying to escape. At the same time the monster stars right next door are sandblasting the whole thing with radiation, eating the edges away. The palette is ridiculous—sharp electric blue oxygen, warm green-gold from hydrogen and nitrogen, angry red sulfur glowing through it all. Feels straight-up like a Tolkien mountain caught in an apocalypse, pure violent energy. Just stars being born the hard way, screaming into existence. Wild. Source: https://science.nasa.gov/asset/hubble/hubble-captures-view-of-mystic-mountain/ Credits: NASA, ESA, M. Livio and the Hubble 20th Anniversary Team (STScI).

The Veil Nebula This pic always creeps me out in the best way—like catching the faint leftover smoke from a star that blew up around 8,000 years ago. It was a heavy one, roughly 20× our Sun, and now we’ve got this huge expanding shell called the Cygnus Loop, about 2,100 light-years out. Spreads over 110 light-years and still racing away at insane speed. When Hubble gets close you see these thin, wispy threads curling everywhere: soft blue-green oxygen, red hydrogen, some sulfur mixed in—looks like torn lace or drifting cosmic smoke. Quietly brutal. All that’s left of a massive star, yet those threads are basically planting the seeds for the next round of planets and suns. Eerie, gorgeous, and kind of humbling. Source: https://science.nasa.gov/image-detail/veil-nebula/ Credits: NASA, ESA, and the Hubble Heritage Team (STScI/AURA)

NGC 2014 and NGC 2020 in the Large Magellanic Cloud (Cosmic Reef) Way out in the Large Magellanic Cloud—163,000 light-years from home—you see this big angry red patch (NGC 2014) getting blasted bright by a bunch of really heavy stars, 10–20 times our Sun’s size. Then, right next to it, that perfect electric-blue bubble (NGC 2020) carved clean by one single Wolf-Rayet monster throwing out 200,000× the Sun’s light. The reds/oranges scream hydrogen + nitrogen; the sharp blue ring is oxygen going nuts. Looks exactly like some underwater coral reef… except the whole scene is only about 5 million years old. Source: https://science.nasa.gov/asset/hubble/cosmic-reef/ Credits: NASA, ESA and STScI

"...it's a mysterious and marvelous fact that our universe obeys laws of nature that always turn out to be expressible in the language of calculus as sentences called differential equations."

— Steven Strogatz, 'Infinite Powers'

🔭 🧪 #Hubble images' description, sources, credits in the ALT text

This really isn’t okay :( YouTube video by Rachel Gilmore

Mainstream media can behave in slimeball ways:

New year, new rules: You may need more carbon monoxide alarms for your home | CBC News Changes to the Ontario Fire Code coming in the new year will require carbon monoxide alarms on every level of a home in a bid to better protect people from the deadly, odorless gas.

More detail:

PSA (Province of Ontario)

Wow! Hope this goes somewhere...

In 2025, we worked to make Canada stronger — and had some fun along the way. YouTube video by Mark Carney

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Season's Greetings!

Merry Christmas, Canada.

No, don't do this if you are in the USA

Astroturfing where the skies are blue How an alleged "enterprise-grade Web3 platform" briefly promoted itself on Bluesky with the aid of thousands of spam accounts

A recent astroturfing attempt was given short shrift here on BlueSky:

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You will find a couple of my photos in old issues of Locus Magazine!

This is a fabulous, evocative image!

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The Wine Wars were not started by Canada. That said, I think highly of the products made by the Granite Hill winery in Prince Edward County, and would recommend them.

Governments endorse greater protections for sharks amid concerns about overfishing Governments at a wildlife trade conference have adopted greater protections for over 70 species of sharks and rays amid concerns that overfishing is driving some to the brink of extinction.

Governments endorse greater protections for sharks amid concerns about overfishing

Underrated reasons to be thankful V even more

Happy American Thanksgiving to American friends!

They Tried to Bury the Katie Johnson Story And we, the public, let them convince us it was bogus.

The truth -- we can haz -- but sometimes we have to dig

Getting up to speed in linear algebra and a reasonable familiarity with tensor calculus is a pretty big prerequisite step....

In other news, 3I/ATLAS is still not an alien spacecraft

Picture a vast, glowing spider made of light in deep space. Its body is a tight knot of hot young stars. Long, soft green threads of gas stretch out as legs, curling gently at the ends. Bright blue fire races along those threads where the stars’ winds crash and heat everything to millions of degrees. All around, dark red dust forms thick clouds with huge round hollows carved out, like someone scooped giant spoonfuls from the nebula. The whole scene shimmers with power and motion, a living cradle of new suns.

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This breathtaking composite was obtained with data from Chandra, Hubble, Spitzer, to mark the 22nd anniversary in orbit of Hubble.

The pic shows 30 Doradus, also known as the Tarantula Nebula.

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Credits: NASA/CXC/PSU/STScI/JPL/L.Townsley et al.

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Remembrance Day - Mark Knopfler YouTube video by Bob Oldfield

Remembrance

Upcoming Hand Made Market at which I will be exhibiting/selling

This edit was from an image capture done in October. The photos from the Maritimes won't see light of day for a few more weeks

My alter ego has done more work

I miss the way we collectively viewed the world before fucking assholes amplified lies and disinformation and fragmented our consensus reality

KATHRYN ANN GRIMBLY Obituary | Toronto Star View KATHRYN ANN GRIMBLY's complete obituary, share memories, and explore heartfelt tribute posts from the community.

I lost a dear friend of many years.