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Journalism is an act of faith in the future. TedTalk: ted.com/talks/ann_curr
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🧵 Amazing time to be alive, in spite of everything, you know?
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The dawn of a new era in astronomy has begun as the world gets its first look at the full capabilities of the NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope. The telescope’s first full-colour images & spectroscopic data were released today. Read more here esawebb.org/news/weic2210/ or👇
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A star nursery. Crazy clarity in these photos, revealing things scientists can’t yet explain. Look up. Our #universe is lovely.
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🌟 A star is born! Behind the curtain of dust and gas in these “Cosmic Cliffs” are previously hidden baby stars, now uncovered by Webb. We know — this is a show-stopper. Just take a second to admire the Carina Nebula in all its glory: nasa.gov/webbfirstimage #UnfoldTheUniverse
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The image is divided horizontally by an undulating line between a cloudscape forming a nebula along the bottom portion and a comparatively clear upper portion. Speckled across both portions is a starfield, showing innumerable stars of many sizes. The smallest of these are small, distant, and faint points of light. The largest of these appear larger, closer, brighter, and more fully resolved with 8-point diffraction spikes. The upper portion of the image is blueish, and has wispy translucent cloud-like streaks rising from the nebula below. The orangish cloudy formation in the bottom half varies in density and ranges from translucent to opaque. The stars vary in color, the majority of which, have a blue or orange hue. The cloud-like structure of the nebula contains ridges, peaks, and valleys – an appearance very similar to a mountain range. Three long diffraction spikes from the top right edge of the image suggest the presence of a large star just out of view.
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⁦⁦Holy cow...⁦⁩ just released images of dying stars including a closeup of a distant galaxy, “edge-on with a bowl.” This telescope is a time machine revealing the birth of what even our own bodies are made of. ⁦
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Here’s a better quality image: #NASA
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It's here–the deepest, sharpest infrared view of the universe to date: Webb's First Deep Field. Previewed by @POTUS on July 11, it shows galaxies once invisible to us. The full set of @NASAWebb's first full-color images & data will be revealed July 12: nasa.gov/webbfirstimages
The background of space is black. Thousands of galaxies appear all across the view. Their shapes and colors vary. Some are various shades of orange, others are white. Most stars appear blue, and are sometimes as large as more distant galaxies that appear next to them. A very bright star is just above and left of center. It has eight bright blue, long diffraction spikes. Between 4 o’clock and 6 o’clock in its spikes are several very bright galaxies. A group of three are in the middle, and two are closer to 4 o’clock. These galaxies are part of the galaxy cluster SMACS 0723, and they are warping the appearances of galaxies seen around them. Long orange arcs appear at left and right toward the center.
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Wow. Released moments ago: the first image from the most powerful space telescope in history, ⁦⁦⁩ gives us a glimpse of the light from hundreds of galaxies 13 billion years ago, almost back to the beginning of time. ⁦COOL.
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Happened to be on the phone with my daughter when the news broke. First there was hurt and stunned silence. Then came steeliness and a realization: women are rising up, banding together already, once again. Whoa. Watch out. #RoeVsWade
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A lovely story to help ease into this day.
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A wee thread about a young boy and the tweet that got away. Feel free to RT. Three weeks ago my youngest, Gabriel 12, came home upset. His love of woodwork was not deemed cool, nor was only having 6 followers on his instagram. 1/15
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Was the world just not paying attention? Ukraine’s then-Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk back in 2014: "…He wants to restore the Soviet Union or something that resembles the Soviet Union. His ultimate goal is to take over control of Ukraine.”
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Almost didn’t watch this, then almost didn’t watch until the end. Boy am I glad I did. , this is a Masterclass on how to help people misled by misinformation, hear the truth. #UkraineRussiaWar
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Ouch. The truth is the truth whether we like it or not. Thank you Dr. for so persistently trying to protect people throughout this pandemic with clarity and data.
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Hello 🇺🇸 You just got over a wave of the most transmissible #SARSCoV2 variant the world has seen, with the highest level of hospitalizations in the pandemic. Now you are facing a variant w/ 30% more transmissibility, w/o mitigation measures, low vaxx coverage, and gutting funding
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Take aways: Omicron has “a high number of mutations” that scientists believe could allow it to spread more easily. Vaccines *likely* offer protection from *severe* illness. But it could take >2 weeks to know. So protect yourselves+ those you love. You already know how.
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Boom. A campaign video that hits home.
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A quarter of the kids on my old No. 6 school bus in rural Oregon are dead from drugs, alcohol, suicide, and there are No. 6 buses all over the state and country. So I've made the leap. I'm running for governor and here's why. More at NickforOr.com. Please share! Thanks!
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“About half of all new infections and hospitalizations in the past week were in seven southern states – Florida, Texas, Missouri, Arkansas, Louisiana, Alabama and Mississippi - even though the states represent less than a quarter of the country’s population...”
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