Bluestreak

Living on the border between North and South Carolina on Lake Wylie near Charlotte NC, Surviving stealthy in Southern Republican States. Warm breezes, red clay earth, and a big blue sky. Wait a second the page will load... It is not over...

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A Dusty Fingerprint in Space

A new image from NASA's James Webb Space Telescope reveals a remarkable cosmic sight: at least 17 concentric dust rings emanating from a pair of stars. Just 5,300 light-years from Earth, the star duo are collectively known as Wolf-Rayet 140. Each ring was created when the two stars came close together and their stellar winds (streams of gas they blow into space) collided so forcefully that some of the gas was compressed into dust. The stars' orbits bring them together about once every eight years, and forms a half-shell of dust that looks like a ring from our perspective. Like a cosmic fingerprint, the 17 rings reveal more than a century of stellar interactions—and the "fingerprint" belonging to Wolf-Rayet 140 may be equally unique. Other Wolf-Rayet stars produce dust, but no other pair are known to produce rings quite like Wolf-Rayet 140.

Learn more about Wolf-Rayet 140.

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(by Kristaps Ungurs)

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Of ice and sun Norbotten, Lapland, Sweden

by Jean-Joaquim Crassous

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Marvel Studios Assembled - The Making of Moon Knight

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Ubirajara, an amazing compsognathid with long display structures around its shoulders.

The specimen was illegally smuggled out of Brazil and Germany refuses to return it.

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Some say he’s still sliding…

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Hallie Packard - Beacon, 2022

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Want to see a quokka eat a leaf?

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Markus Matthias Krüger - Solitär, 2014

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Luminol is a powder which is made up of oxygen, hydrogen, nitrogen, and carbon. It glows luminous blue when it comes into contact with blood, even minuscule amounts of blood and even after the area has been cleaned. The glow of luminol only lasts for around 30 seconds but it can be captured through a camera. It’s often used as a last resort because the reaction can destroy the evidence.

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A Monumental 20-Story Wildflower Blooms Above Jersey City in a New Mural by Artist Mona Caron