Thank you, @speedsilverr, @TapLHarV, and @AntVenom, for joining us last night to celebrate Halloween with @MDAorg! 🎃
Our community is so grateful for your support of Scarefest and for making it a night to remember. You truly made this event unforgettable! 🎉👻
@PalayeRoyale best money spent in a while. Travelled across Europe to see them 5 years ago and finally they came to Greece as headliners.
Insane performance, skills, sound, and vibes. These guys are worth every penny.
No wonder the crowd was feral. True rockstars
At least 10 people are dead and thousands of people are without power as significant severe weather and life-threatening flash flooding continue to impact much of the mid-South up through the Ohio River Valley. https://t.co/rkresF2pgm
@neiltyson you got me thinking—I have been presented with this argument and I don’t know how to counter it: “If global warming were real and ice caps are melting, then Plymouth Rock wouldn’t still be at the same water level as when it was discovered.”
Does physics negate this?
Imagine a star about 100 times more massive than our Sun.
Eta Carinae fits the description! Seen in this image from Hubble's 7th year, this giant star was the site of a huge outburst that produced two polar lobes which move outward at 1.5 million mph: https://t.co/mWvGIV3j5O
A "pi" in the sky...
Happy #PiDay! This Hubble image shows the spiral galaxy NGC 1512, appearing as a large circle with its face-on orientation to Earth.
NGC 1512 is located 30 million light-years away, and spans 70,000 light-years across: https://t.co/ZQ8J3KXsBw
Stargazers, assemble! 🔭
Hubble's Night Sky Challenge continues. Get ready for March's cosmic targets here: https://t.co/nQhY7AYxNB
No telescope? Find a star party or club near you: https://t.co/4eNbr7nCkx
I am incandescent with rage right now. I feel sick to the stomach. A US Vice President stood today on the soil of where so many Americans gave their lives to defeat fascism in Europe. He delivered a disgraceful speech that spat on their graves. Not that we should expect any different, given his boss skipped visiting the graves of fallen Americans in Europe for fear of getting his hair wet. The same man who called the same fallen heroes suckers and losers.
As a Brit that loves America and the American people, I am deeply disturbed at the insults delivered by a man who once described Donald Trump as an “idiot" and said he was "reprehensible." Privately, comparing him to Adolf Hitler.
How times have changed. Vance is now part of the most authoritarian administration in American history. An administration actively seeking to deny bodily autonomy to women. An administration pursuing the same mass deportation of immigrants that Europe witnessed in 1930s Germany. Vance is a man that his own president doesn’t even see as his successor.
He came to Europe to vomit his Christo-fascist bile on leaders from the UK and across Europe, in what appears to be a retribution tour designed to assert American power.
The U.S. are to my knowledge the only NATO country to have invoked Article 5 of the NATO charter after 9/11. We, his European allies, met that call with no questions asked. We sent thousands of soldiers to the battlefields of Afghanistan and Iraq to fight a war on the false premise of Donald Rumsfeld’s ‘known unknowns’. We did this despite millions of our own citizens protesting in the streets of our cities.
Our military stood shoulder to shoulder with his military and we, like many Americans, stood to salute our fallen young men and women returning home day after day. I have tears in my eyes as I write this, thinking of them and their loved ones. Our brave men and women willingly gave their all and far too many made the ultimate sacrifice in support of an American led war.
For the record, 6000 Ukrainian solders server alongside American soldiers in Iraq. This, despite Ukraine not being a member of NATO. In 1994 upon signing the Budapest Memorandum they gave up their nuclear weapons in return for security assurances from the US and the UK. These were then reneged upon in 2014 when Russia invaded Crimea. They were told ‘An assurance is not a guarantee’.
Now, despite their friendship and their brave sacrifice on the battlefields of Ukraine, the President of the United States has decided to abandon them and hand a victory to an indicted war criminal, who illegally invaded the sovereign territory of a US ally. An ally who’s soldiers had previously lost their lives supporting America in its war on terror.
SHAME ON HIM. Shame on the man who dodged the draft and never served a day in defense of his nation. He is a coward and I would gladly call him that to his face. To all those Americans on social media currently posting vile insults to those who have always been there for America, I say, democracy is bigger than you, as you sit anonymously behind your phones posting poison.
America might have the most powerful army on the planet, but remember, that same army fled from Saigon after being handed their ass by a bunch of peasant rice farmers, armed with grenades made from discarded US coke cans. Ukraine have been to the Russian army what the Vietnamese were to you and we salute them.
You might want to throw Ukraine under the bus while stealing there mineral deposits, BUT EUROPE WILL NOT ALLOW THAT TO HAPPEN. I know for sure that the UK will not abandon the Ukrainian people. Our aid to GDP contribution already exceeds that of the US as does Poland, Germany Finland and others.
The U.S. is no longer a reliable ally and if need be, we will stand with Ukraine without America.
As for your pathetic tariffs, do your worst. You will soon have no friends but thugs and autocrats, so I’m sure Wun Dum Fuc will be right at home.
In their current order in the sky (actual angle will vary based on latitude and observing time)
Starting from the sun:
Saturn
Venus
Neptune
Uranus
Jupiter
Mars
The comet is the G3 Atlas comet there is also a comet visible in the southern hemisphere (although it just broke up)
Cloudy with a chance of new stars! 🌟
This new #HubbleFriday view takes a peek into the outskirts of the Tarantula Nebula, a star-forming region 160,000 light-years away.
The Tarantula Nebula is the most productive stellar nursery in our nearby universe: https://t.co/RBL93DJ5eu
Young and hungry.
In the top right of this #HubbleFriday image, two protostars stars orbit each other. Each star grows as it gathers material from the disks of dust around them.
On the left is a jet ejected by a protostar! For more on this busy scene: https://t.co/jsVRtMkgza
M110's a local!
This galaxy orbits our closest major galactic neighbor, Andromeda. Seen in this #HubbleClassic view, M110's core is at the lower right.
It's about 2,690,000 light-years away and classified as an elliptical galaxy: https://t.co/XGxRP2pof7
If you liked it then you should have put a(n Einstein) ring on it 💍
In this @NASAHubble image, a distant galaxy appears to be surrounded by a ring, caused by the gravity of a closer galaxy warping the light we see. Einstein predicted this effect in his theory of relativity.