#PPOD: More than a century after the first photographs of the Orion Nebula, NASA's Hubble Space Telescope revealed something extraordinary in this familiar stellar nursery: young stars surrounded by gas and dust disks. These structures, known as protoplanetary disks or proplyds, contain material that may eventually assemble into planets. Credit: NASA, C. R. O'Dell, and S. K. Wong (Rice University)

#astronomy #space #science

mood

Yesterday I responded to Indigenous Peoples Day by sharing some of my family's history.
I have one more story for you.
My mother was born Wailaki and lived on the Round Valley Reservation.
At least seven families lived on the ranch. Three generations of grandparents, aunts, uncles and cousins.
My mother always said that while the country was starving during the depression they had ample game to hunt, fish in the Eel River and a massive garden. But when she was sent to Indian Boarding School she starved.
I tell you this because her later health issues were likely the result of malnutrition as an adolescent.
I was her end of life caregiver.
The doctors were convinced that the atrophy of her brain was from alcohol. She was Indian but never a drinker. They wouldn't believe us and didn't help.
Prejudice can manifest in so many different ways.
She deserved better.
This is why I seek out care for myself at my Indian Health clinic. They believe me when I tell them the truth

Mars and the Beehive Under an Aurora
Image Credit: Petr Horálek (Institute of Physics in Opava), Josef Kujal, Vojan Höfer

Explanation: What a cosmic coincidence! In today’s image, Mars joins the Beehive cluster (M44 or Praesepe) below an auroral curtain and above a horizon of happy little trees near Lansjärv, Sweden. An eruption off the Sun reached Earth on October 10th, 2026 causing strong disturbances in Earth’s magnetic field. Energetic particles from the eruption collide with and energize the molecules in Earth’s atmosphere, which release that extra energy as the colorful aurora captured here. Auroras, or guovssahasat in North Sámi, is traditionally viewed with respect by the Sámi people indigenous to Sweden and other Arctic regions. Coincidentally, Mars appeared closest to the center of the Beehive cluster in the sky at the time. Although bees have been to space, the Beehive cluster is actually a swarm of young stars. Their rotation periods have helped humanity learn about how stars spin slower over time as they lose mass through their stellar winds.

https://science.nasa.gov/image-article/apod-2026-october-14-mars-and-the-beehive-under-an-aurora/ #apod

It is imperative that our survival be disconnected from employment and connected instead to citizenship, or even better, a basic human right to existence. The arrangement we have of dependence on finding an employer to sponsor our survival cannot and should not be considered by anyone as being just.

#FensterFreitag

Halloween Windows ready to breathe some fire 🔥
#NYC #Photography #AltText #Photographie

Evening Views and a few great pics with the Seestar from 2026 Summer.

#astronomy
#saturn
#moon
#nebula
#galaxies
#nature
#astrophography
#photography
#smartphoneastronomy
#science
https://youtube.com/shorts/_j0ouSBeuiM?is=TUjsYVuJYS4iQq8S

📍 Peñíscola. Castellón.

#FotoVorschlag
Leere Straßen in Schwarzweiß
Calles vacías en blanco y negro

Descripción en #alttext

#photography #photo #fotografia #blackandwhite #bnwphotography #bnw #monochrome #blancoynegro #travel #streetphotography #cityscape #architecture

Yay it's Fleet Week in San Francisco, where high above the Embarcadero the Blue Angels have just begun to dazzle...

Hmmmm...

*looks closely*

No, that ain't right.

#photography

Hey Bob! Watch me spin!

#photography

#FotoVorschlag

“Leere Straßen in Schwarzweiß” (Empty streets in black and white)

#photography #streetphotography #monochrome #blackandwhite #snow #blizzard #winter #wintervibes #brooklyn #nyc

@FotoVorschlag
'Leere Straßen in Schwarzweiß' #FotoVorschlag
das war eine sehr einsame Straße

'Leere Straßen in Schwarzweiß' #FotoVorschlag