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"To celebrate its 28th anniversary in space the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope took this amazing and colourful image of the Lagoon Nebula. The whole nebula, about 4000 light-years away, is an incredible 55 light-years wide and 20 light-years tall. This image shows only a small part of this turbulent star-formation region, about four light-years across.
This stunning nebula was first catalogued in 1654 by the Italian astronomer Giovanni Battista Hodierna, who sought to record nebulous objects in the night sky so they would not be mistaken for comets. Since Hodierna’s observations, the Lagoon Nebula has been photographed and analysed by many telescopes and astronomers all over the world.
The observations were taken by Hubble’s Wide Field Camera 3 between 12 February and 18 February 2018." ~ esahubble.org/images/heic1808a
Image Credit: NASA, ESA, STScI
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About the Image
Id: heic1808a
Type: Observation
Release date: 19 April 2018, 16:00
Related releases: heic1808
Related announcements: ann2004
Size: 4782 x 6028 px
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About the Object
Name: Lagoon Nebula
Type: Milky Way : Nebula : Type : Star Formation
Distance: 4000 light years
Constellation: Sagittarius
Category: Anniversary Nebulae
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Coordinates
Position (RA): 18 3 39.42
Position (Dec): -24° 22' 49.77"
Field of view: 3.19 x 4.02 arcminutes
Orientation: North is 45.1° right of vertical
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View in WorldWide Telescope: worldwidetelescope.org
(American Astronomical Society)
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Colours & filters
Band: Optical, OIII
Wavelength: 502 nm
Telescope: Hubble Space Telescope, WFC3
Band: Optical, H-alpha
Wavelength: 656 nm
Telescope: Hubble Space Telescope, WFC3
Band: Optical, NII
Wavelength: 658 nm
Telescope: Hubble Space Telescope, WFC3
Band: Optical, y
Wavelength: 547 nm
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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