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"This packed ESA/Hubble Picture of the Week showcases the galaxy cluster ACO S 295, as well as a jostling crowd of background galaxies and foreground stars. Galaxies of all shapes and sizes populate this image, ranging from stately spirals to fuzzy ellipticals. As well as a range of sizes, this galactic menagerie boasts a range of orientations, with spiral galaxies such as the one at the centre of this image appearing almost face on, and some edge-on spiral galaxies visible only as thin slivers of light.
The cluster dominates the centre of this image, both visually and physically. The huge mass of the galaxy cluster has gravitationally lensed the background galaxies, distorting and smearing their shapes. As well as providing astronomers with a natural magnifying glass with which to study distant galaxies, gravitational lensing has subtly framed the centre of this image, producing a visually striking scene." ~ esahubble.org/images/potw2120a
Image
Credit: ESA/Hubble & NASA, F. Pacaud, D. Coe
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About the Image
Id: potw2120a
Type: Observation
Release date: 17 May 2021, 06:00
Size: 2895 x 2463 px
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About the Object
Name: ACO S 295
Constellation: Horologium
Category: Galaxies
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Coordinates
Position (RA): 2 45 30.98
Position (Dec): -53° 2' 25.37"
Field of view: 2.41 x 2.05 arcminutes
Orientation: North is 4.0° left of vertical
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View in WorldWide Telescope: worldwidetelescope.org
(American Astronomical Society)
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Colours & filters
Band: Optical, B
Wavelength: 435 nm
Telescope: Hubble Space Telescope, ACS
Band: Optical, V
Wavelength: 606 nm
Telescope: Hubble Space Telescope, ACS
Band: Optical, I
Wavelength: 814 nm
Telescope: Hubble Space Telescope, ACS
Band: Infrared, H
Wavelength: 1.6 μm
Telescope: Hubble Space Telescope, WFC3
Band: Infrared, Y
Wavelength: 1.05 μm
Telescope: Hubble Space Telescope, WFC3
Band: Infrared, H/J
Wavelength: 1.4 μm
Telescope: Hubble Space Telescope, WFC3
Band: Infrared, J
Wavelength: 1.25 μm
Telescope: Hubble Space Telescope, WFC3
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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