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2024 December 19

Messier 2 Image Credit: ESA/Hubble & NASA, G. Piotto et al.

Explanation: After the Crab Nebula, this giant star cluster is the second entry in 18th century astronomer Charles Messier’s famous list of things that are not comets. M2 is one of the largest globular star clusters now known to roam the halo of our Milky Way galaxy. Though Messier originally described it as a nebula without stars, this stunning Hubble image resolves stars across the cluster’s central 40 light-years. Its population of stars numbers close to 150,000, concentrated within a total diameter of around 175 light-years. About 55,000 light-years distant toward the constellation Aquarius, this ancient denizen of the Milky Way, also known as NGC 7089, is 13 billion years old. An extended stellar debris stream, a signature of past gravitational tidal disruption, was recently found to be associated with Messier 2.

∞ Source: apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap241219.html

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 Wispy curtains of IC 348 © JWST

JWST identifies three tiny free-floating brown dwarfs in the star cluster IC 348: objects too small to be stars but larger than most planets

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First image of Uranus and its 5 brightest moons taken by the James Webb Space Telescope.

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Webb captures the Rings of Giant Planets

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The first image of Saturn from the James Webb Space Telescope

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Northern Lights

l May 2024 l Andrew McCarthy l Logan Parham l Shane Ware l Joseph Alsousou l Neil Thomas l Greg Sheard l Sebastian Voltmer l TheSolarCan

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Procyon, α Canis Minoris // Spencer Collins

Procyon (α Canis Minoris) is the brightest star in Canis Minor, the Little Dog, and the eighth-brightest star in the night sky. This star is actually a binary system, with the primary being a white-yellow star and the secondary being a white dwarf. The name comes from the Ancient Greek word prokyon meaning "before the dog" since it rises before the "dog star" Sirius (α Canis Majoris).

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Mars and its moon Phobos (left) on December 16, 2024 // Tom Williams

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SNR 0509, sometimes called the Ornament Nebula, captured by the Hubble Space Telescope & NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory. (from the book Hubble’s Universe: Greatest Discoveries and Latest Images)

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The "Strawberry Moon" rising over Avebury, England on June 20, 2024 // Connor Welles

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✰NEPTUNE IN ARIES✰

A once in a lifetime astrological event!

©️GeminiMoonMadness

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Neptune takes roughly 165 years to transit the whole zodiac and has been happily swimming through his own sign of Pisces since 2011. Neptune will transit Aries from 2025 to 2039, spending about 12 and a half years there in total, with a few dips in and out at either end. This represents the start of a new cycle of inspiration and change.

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Here are the dates:

-Enters Aries on 30 March 2025

-Retrogrades into Pisces on 22 October 2025

-Re-enters Aries to stay from 26 January 2026

-Dips into Taurus on 21 May 2038

-Final visit to Aries from 21 October 2038

-Enters Taurus to stay on 23 March 2039

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Neptune was last in Aries from 1861 to 1875 and brought to light humanity´s impulsiveness translated into wars, the creativity to invent and the determination to discover.

As Neptune transits the signs, it reveals what we idealise and look to for redemption or salvation. In Capricorn (1984-1998) it fed the idealisation of corporations and big business and in Aquarius (1998-2012) it idealised science and technology. In Pisces (2011-2025), it appears to be idealising deception itself because we’re all drowning in fake news and propaganda in a crazy-making post-truth hall of mirrors.

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WHAT HAPPENED IN HISTORY THE LAST TIME NEPTUNE WAS IN ARIES?

60 – 73 CE

-In Rome Christianity was spreading fast

-In Palestine there was a Jewish uprising against the Romans in 66 and Josephus wrote his history of the Jewish War which became a major source on Jesus.

388 – 401

-Christianity had become the official imperial religion of the Roman Empire in 391

-Theodosius prohibited all pagan cults and worship.

432 – 419 BCE

-The ancient Greek city states were always having falling outs/battling.

-The Peloponnesian War between Athens and Sparta began and ran for decades.

879-892

-Alfred the Great created a small fleet of ships to fight naval battles against the Vikings.

1206 – 1219

-Genghis Khan began his conquest of Eurasia

-The Christian Crusades were in full swing

1370 – 1383

-The Hundred Years War between England and France was going strong, it started in 1337 and ended in 1453.

-The Catholic Church split in 1378 and there were two rival popes until 1417

-The Church came under attack from 1377 by John Wycliffe, an English theologian.

-John Wycliffe (as above) completed the first translation of the Bible into English in 1382.

-1370s, the story of Robin Hood began to circulate (a tale of a classic Aries character).

1534-1547

-Henry VIII broke from Rome and declared himself supreme head of the Church of England

-This led to the dissolution of the monasteries in 1536 and the destruction of religious relics and churches, and endless fighting between Catholics and Protestants.

-In the 1540s Valerius Cordus wrote Dispensatorium, the first pharmacopeia covering medicinal plants, minerals and how to make drugs, published in 1546. He also discovered ether in 1540, which was used in pain relief for surgery – and for getting as high as a kite!

1697 – 1711

- Lots of fighting and rebellions in Europe over various things, including the War of Spanish Succession in which England took Gibraltar in 1704.

-England was getting tired of fighting the Scots, and in 1707 the Act of Union formed a new entity called Great Britain, unifying England and Scotland.

1861-1874

- American civil war commenced

- germ theory was invented

-Violence on the Australian goldfields

-Slavery

-Abraham Lincoln becomes president

-Franco-Prussian War

(Can you notice a trend?)

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PREDICTION FOR 2025-2039:

Neptune in Aries could bring pioneering visions that reach into every part of society, with lots of new ideas and progressive thinking. There could be idealistic revolutions and social activism, visionary rebellions, crusades for truth and religious wars. Wars may be fought based on lies and deception (nothing new there then), or fought with bioweapons, chemicals and viruses.

At best, Neptune could inspire compassionate action and leadership that takes us away from the potential for war. But it could just as easily reveal the corruption and weakness of leaders that create power vacuums and trigger war by accident.

There may also be a massive loss of faith in leadership, a loss of belief in the nation or the system. People could turn away from the system out of disillusionment or even boredom, and lose themselves in escapist pursuits, like gaming or virtual reality.

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WHAT HOUSE IS YOUR NEPTUNE IN?

WHAT HOUSE IS YOUR ARIES IN?

WHAT DEGREE IS YOUR NEPTUNE?

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The gorgeous spiral galaxy, NGC 5584, is full of Cepheid variables, or pulsating stars. These stars serve as reliable distance markers. (from the book Hubble’s Universe: Greatest Discoveries and Latest Images)

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The Trapezium Cluster consists of four massive stars. It resides in the Orion Nebula  and was discovered by Galileo Galilei in 1617. 

image: APOD/NASA, info: SEDS Messier Database

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“Also known as NGC 4258, M106 is about 80,000 light-years across and 23.5 million light-years away, the largest member of the Canes II galaxy group.” 

Read more at APOD/NASA; Credit: Phil Keyser

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Centaurus A, C77 // Rolf Olsen

In this extreme deep field totaling 321 hours (or ~13 days) of exposure, shells are seen radiating away from Centaurus A. Their origin is best explained by a recent interaction with another smaller galaxy.

Also seen is a red jet of ionized hydrogen and oxygen emanating from the core. This jet is millions of light years long and come from the supermassive black hole at the center of the galaxy. That black hole weighs over 55 million times more than the Sun!

Centaurus A is best seen in the autumn in the southern hemisphere.

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Neowise above Worcestershire by Tony Armstrong-Sly

Neowise above Caliente, California by Jason Hullinger