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RE: #Binary #Apep Revealed by #JWST / The Serpent Eating Its Own Tail - Dust Destruction in the Apep Colliding Wind Nebula: https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-4357/ae12e5 / https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-4357/adfbe1 ->

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RIP to this #SolyTech power supply in one of my old #TigerDirect #Systemax clunkers. It just failed spectacularly with a tick-tick-tick, a large burst of yellow sparks, a loud buzz, and acrid ozoney smoke.…

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Wanna see an amazing uninterrupted multi-day timelapse of the plasma tail of comet #Lemmon blowing the #SolarWind in October/November? It's happening in the #PUNCH video embedded in the press release https://science.nasa.gov/blogs/punch/2025/12/18/nasas-punch-releases-refined-images-of-eruptions-from-the-sun/ - and see also https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Kk05oIEeJ0 for a version with constellation lines.

PSA: If you’re allegedly driving around with:
• no tags
• an altered VIN
• a #Glock switch
• #ecstasy
• #Adderall
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Charger leads chase from Cordova to North Memphis, trooper says
MEMPHIS, Tenn. — A suspect in a Dodge Charger led state troopers on a 150-mph chase from Cordova to North Memphis, authorities say. A trooper said he was...

A second #planetesimal collision in the #Fomalhaut system: #Hubble Sees Asteroids Colliding at Nearby Star for First Time / Zerstörerische Kollisionen in einem jungen Planetensystem: https://www.esa.int/Science_Exploration/Space_Science/Hubble_sees_asteroids_colliding_around_nearby_star / https://science.nasa.gov/missions/hubble/nasas-hubble-sees-asteroids-colliding-at-nearby-star-for-first-time/ / https://www.mpg.de/24356362/fomalhaut-staubwolken-durch-kollisionen

Having just watched #Jaws for the first time in ages, I was stunned by the famous opening sequence ... but not by its cinematography or acting or editing - but by the never-ending chain of in-your-face #continuity errors in lighting once the girl enters the water: one moment we have a low Sun and a red sky, then we have the Sun near the zenith (with a day for night effect) then low again and so on, for several cycles.
Now #Spielberg, is there supposed to be some hidden message here? Well, there isn't.
(Once it's day, fortunately, this problem is gone, and a great movie unfolds, still fresh after 50 years. And I know, you shouldn't mess with a masterpiece, but Lucas added characters to Star Wars IV, and Cameron corrected a wrong star pattern in Titanic, so may be Spielberg could just, for an anniversary special edition ... o.k., I shut up. ;-)

The Ongoing Decline in Activity of #Comet 103P/Hartley 2: #CitizenScience #Unistellar