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"This Picture of the Week showcases the emission nebula NGC 2313. The bright star V565 — surrounded by four prominent diffraction spikes — illuminates a silvery, fan-shaped veil of gas and dust, while the right half of this image is obscured by a dense cloud of dust. Nebulae with similar shapes — a star accompanied by a bright fan of gas — were once referred to as cometary nebulae, though the name is no longer used.
The language that astronomers use changes as we become better acquainted with the Universe, and astronomical history is littered with now-obsolete phrases to describe objects in the night sky, such as “spiral nebulae” for spiral galaxies or “inferior planets” for Mercury and Venus." ~ esahubble.org/images/potw2119a
Image
Credit: ESA/Hubble, R. Sahai
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About the Image
Id: potw2119a
Type: Observation
Release date: 10 May 2021, 06:00
Size: 1904 x 1790 px
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About the Object
Name: NGC 2313
Constellation: Monoceros
Category: Nebulae
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Coordinates
Position (RA): 6 58 3.00
Position (Dec): -7° 56' 47.54"
Field of view: 1.59 x 1.49 arcminutes
Orientation: North is 50.1° left of vertical
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Colours & filters
Band Wavelength Telescope
Optical
V 606 nm Hubble Space Telescope
ACS
Optical
I 814 nm Hubble Space Telescope
ACS
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View in worldwidetelescope.org (American Astronomical Society)
Grand Jury, Day 2: Historical Background
Alex Thomson, former officer of Britain’s Signal Intelligence Agency, GCHQ, the partner agency to NSA has just completed his statement.
Matthew Ehret, Senior Fellow of American University in Moscow, Editor-in-chief of Canadian Patriot dot org and BRI Expert of Tactical Talk dot net then makes his own short statement.
Pay attention to what Ehret says about traps patriots/freedom lovers may easily fall into, traps laid via propaganda.
No lockdowns.
Facemasks not required.
Vaccines not required.
2 metre space between people suggested.
Tragic deaths and patients ill with COVID-19 are in low numbers.
Here is the updated information from the Danish government:
https://www.sst.dk/en/English/Corona-eng
When did Denmark back down from draconian law enforcement?
https://www.lifesitenews.com/news/danish-govt-backs-down-on-forced-covid-vaccination-law-after-citizens-protest-with-pots-and-pans
Why exactly did the Danes reject the proposed law?
https://www.thelocal.dk/20201113/explained-what-is-denmarks-proposed-epidemic-law-and-why-is-it-being-criticised/
Ended a debate between Senators Daniel Webster of Massachusetts and Robert Hayne of South Carolina.
Daniel Webster won the day, but with hindsight, modern citizens may side with Hayne.
Hayne re-enforced the idea of a confederation while Webster defended the idea of a federation.
In a confederacy the people may overcome tyrants quicker than in a federation, for in THAT condition, do the words of the Unites States constitution have TEETH. #AntiFederalistPaper9 http://resources.utulsa.edu/law/classes/rice/Constitutional/AntiFederalist/09.htm "We [the Aristocratic party of the United States,] do not much like that sturdy privilege of the people -- the right to demand the writ of habeas corpus. We have therefore reserved the power of refusing it in cases of rebellion, and you know we are the judges of what is rebellion...."
Images:
Robert Y. Hayne
Unknown author, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Daniel Webster
Unknown photographer, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
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