Wishing you a Merry Christmas, wherever you may be ✨🎄

Joyeux Noël!
Frohe Weihnachten!
¡Feliz Navidad!
Buon Natale!
Feliz Natal!
Весела Коледа!
Veselé Vánoce!
Glædelig jul!
Häid jõule!
Καλά Χριστούγεννα!
Nollaig shona!
Sretan Božić!
Priecīgus Ziemassvētkus!
Džiaugsmingų šv. Kalėdų!
Kellemes karácsonyi ünnepeket!
Il-Milied it-Tajjeb!
Vrolijk kerstfeest!
Wesołych Świąt!
Crăciun fericit!
Veselé Vianoce!
Vesel božič!
God Jul!
Hyvää joulua!

“French voters turned out in numbers not seen in decades to stop the far-right National Rally from taking power in the French National Assembly. Polls predicted a first-place finish for National Rally, which instead came in third …” 🇫🇷 🎉

npr.org/2024/07/07/nx-s1-50320

Hey y’all, don’t forget that the ugly dry dirt parts of your garden are habitat for your wild bees! #gardening #bees

a massive panorama, made of 225 images, freshly transmitted from Mars by the Curiosity rover

June 20, 2024 (Sol 4220)
Credits: NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS/fredk

#Curiosity #Mars #Sol4229 #rover #CuriosityRover #space #science #Martian #landscape #panorama #photography #STEM #Astrodon

Tiny garden insect of the day: a cinnamon bug (Corizus hyoscyami) venturing out for a while in a gap between the on-off rain we’ve had this evening.

#iPhone15 📱
#Photography 📷
#MacroPhotography 🔬
#BackGardenEntomology 🪲

Not all astronomical are dripping with gorgeousity, yet they can still contain amazing and wonderful information in them.

Like, evidence for the existence of an intermediate-mass black hole, one of the biggest goals of modern astronomy.

badastronomy.beehiiv.com/p/mid

For the past nine months, mean land and sea surface temperatures have overshot previous records each month by up to 0.2 °C — a huge margin at the planetary scale.

A general warming trend is expected because of rising greenhouse-gas emissions, but this sudden heat spike greatly exceeds predictions made by statistical #climate models.

#planet #habitability #Earth
nature.com/articles/d41586-024

The exceptionally luminous #galaxy GN-z11 existed when the #universe was only about 430 million years old.

Astronomers studying it with #JWST found clear evidence that the galaxy is hosting a central, supermassive black hole that is rapidly accreting matter, the most distant active supermassive black hole spotted.

They also found a gaseous clump of #helium in the halo surrounding GN-z11. The lack of elements beyond helium suggests that this clump must be pristine.

phys.org/news/2024-03-webb-sec

Middle kiddo did a thing with a pumpkin. It's pretty dang cool, and I thought @neilhimself might like it, too. Happy Fall/Halloween/apocalypse, everyone!

Seeing our world right now, where so many people are hurting, words can provide comfort sometimes, as well as do some good:

'What you need to be warm'
"This book of poetry is about our right to feel safe, whoever we are and wherever we are from. It is about holding out a hand to welcome those who find themselves far from home.

Sales of every copy of the book – including all author proceeds – help support the work of UNHCR."

Written by @neilhimself
unhcr.org/about-unhcr/our-part

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