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12 May 2022 at 15:00 CEST (13:00 UTC, 9:00 EST)

Mark the date in your calendar, there's an announcement afoot !

ESO (European Southern Observatory) is going to be making a world wide announcement, and while the details of it are being kept very closely to their heart, they have referred to the announcement as "groundbreaking", and the last time they used that term, the following image was released.

M87 Supermassive black hole was imaged as it's direct on to us, several billion times the mass of the Sun, and being in an elliptical galaxy, wasn't obscured by dust and gas, having long since been silenced by the constant heating by this mammoth.

Sagittarius A* is our own supermassive black hole, at the centre of our galaxy, and obscured by entire arms of stars, dust and gas, so very very hard to spot, still, speculation is, the same technique has been turned to imagining Sag A*, and being only 25,000+ light years from us, rather than 53.49 million light years, the results could be well .. ground breaking ! if not breath taking.

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Corona Australis

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Pillars of Star Formation: Soul in infrared

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Thors Helmet : Thor not only has his own day (Thursday), but a helmet in the heavens.  Popularly called Thor’s Helmet, NGC 2359 is a hat-shaped cosmic cloud with wing-like appendages. Heroically sized even for a Norse god, Thor’s Helmet is about 30 light-years across. In fact, the cosmic head-covering is more like an interstellar bubble, blown with a fast wind from the bright, massive star near the bubble’s center. Known as a Wolf-Rayet star, the central star is an extremely hot giant thought to be in a brief, pre-supernova stage of evolution. NGC 2359 is located about 15,000 light-years away toward the constellation of the Great Overdog. This remarkably sharp image is a mixed cocktail of data from broadband and narrowband filters, capturing not only natural looking stars but details of the nebula’s filamentary structures. The star in the center of Thor’s Helmet is expected to explode in a spectacular supernova sometime within the next few thousand years. via NASA

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Shelby G.T. 350CR

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Amazing car

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What. A. Rig.

Awesome Jimny

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This is what happens up the front when you get tilted back into your seats people! 😊😍 #LifeasanAirlinePilot #livefromflightdeck #b737 #boeing #737 #lights #runway #avgeek

#lifeasanairlinepilot #boeing #runway #avgeek #livefromflightdeck #lights #b737 #737

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Creating the Angel Wings, 😍 #c17 #globemaster #c17globemasteriii #angelwings #aviation

#aviation #globemaster #c17 #c17globemasteriii #angelwings

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Angel Wings, 😍 #c17 #globemaster #c17globemasteriii #angelwings #aviation

#aviation #globemaster #c17 #c17globemasteriii #angelwings

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Describe Aiden Pearce in 8 words.

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Favorite game characters Aiden Pearce (Watch_Dogs)

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Aiden looks better with a fedora tbh. 

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You owe the man a hundred dollars!

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