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A custom Dunny by Ardabus Rubber (Link to his website)
I won this beautiful Dunny at the Kidrobot Forums and it has now perfected my Dunny collection.
Huge thanks for Ardabus Rubber for the awesome work and being so nice!
Corb Lund on the stage at the Interstellar Rodeo in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada.
©Eric Kozakiewicz/ Interstellar Rodeo
PID 2549, 2023-10-18
Interstellar Dust near HD-38087 (star is just off scene, bottom right):
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F770W Blue
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F1130W Red
This image shows part of the spectrum of interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS, captured between 6 and 26 December 2025 with the UVES instrument on ESO’s Very Large Telescope (VLT). Using UVES, astronomers studied the spectral signatures of cyanide, a molecule comprised of a carbon atom and a nitrogen one. More precisely, they looked at their isotopic ratios: the relative amounts of different forms of the same atoms. These ratios are sensitive to the conditions under which 3I/ATLAS formed, and are not expected to change much as the comet travels through space.
The spectrum shown here contains spectral features produced by 12C, an isotope of carbon with 6 protons and 6 neutrons, and 13C, which has 7 neutrons instead. These features are very faint, but astronomers know the exact wavelength regions where to look for them in the spectrum of the comet. Adding together several of these wavelength regions averages out the noise, making the real features pop out.
The team performed similar measurements with two isotopes of nitrogen, 14N and 15N. By comparing the 12C/13C and 14N/15N ratios with those measured in Solar System comets and in the discs of material around young stars, the team concluded that 3I/ATLAS likely formed in the outskirts of the disc around a star older than the Sun.
Credit: ESO/C. Opitom, J. Manfroid et al. Comet image: O. Hainaut
Like a Dali masterpiece, this image of Messier 8 from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope is both intensely colourful and distinctly surreal. Located in the constellation of Sagittarius (The Archer), this giant cloud of glowing interstellar gas is a stellar nursery that is also known as the Lagoon Nebula. Although the name definitely suits the beauty of this object, “lagoon” does suggest tranquillity and there is nothing placid about the high-energy radiation causing these intricate clouds to glow. The massive stars hiding within the heart of the nebula give off enormous amounts of ultraviolet radiation, ionising the gas and causing it to shine colourfully, as well as sculpting the surrounding nebula into strange shapes. The result is an object around four to five thousand light-years away which, on a clear night, is faintly visible to the naked eye. Since it was first recorded back in the 1747 this object has been photographed and analysed at many different wavelengths. By using infrared detectors it is possible to delve into the centre of these dusty regions to study the objects within. However, while this optical image, taken with the Advanced Camera for Surveys (ACS) on the Hubble Space Telescope, cannot pierce the obscuring matter it is undoubtedly one of the most visually impressive. Messier 8 is an enormous structure — around 140 by 60 light-years in extent — to put this in perspective the orbit of Neptune stretches only about four light-hours from our own Sun. This image depicts a small region in the centre of the nebula, while the region adjacent to the Lagoon Nebula, from the same Hubble observations, can be seen here. This picture was created from exposures taken with the Wide Field Channel of the Advanced Camera for Surveys on Hubble. Light from glowing hydrogen (through the F658N filter) is coloured red. Light from ionised nitrogen (through the F660N filter) is coloured green and light through a yellow filter (F550M) is coloured blue. The exposure times through each filter are 1560 s, 1600 s and 400 s respectively. The blue-white flare at the lower left of the image is scattered light from a bright star just outside the field of view. The field of view is about 3.3 by 1.7 arcminutes.