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Rubin Observatory's shiny silver dome beneath a starry night sky. The dense glowing band of the Milky Way emanates from Rubin on the left toward the upper right.

Mapping the Milky Way is like mapping a forest from inside it 🌌

From our spot ~27,000 light-years from the center, the big picture is hard to see. NSF–DOE Rubin Observatory will detect and measure ~17B stars, creating a Milky Way map ~100× larger than we've had before. 🔭🧪

日々の植物🌱 #flower #bloomscrolling

早朝に雨が降っていた

Lili tiny crocus full blooming

What a cute, early surprise this noon in my garden. A tiny single crocus starts flowering in the sun ☀️ 🌱 🦋 🥰 💚😊

Millions across the United States mobilized in a nationwide strike and mass demonstrations. From cities to rural communities, the people have risen, and the resistance grows.

End impunity, end oligarchy, end autogenocide, and abolish ICE. #3E #GoodVsEvil #NationalStrike #ICEOut

The First Amendment is a foundational promise to every American: Each of us has the freedom to speak, to report, and to hold those in power accountable without fear of retribution or retaliation.

Snowdrops at University of Stirling #bloomscrolling #flowers 🌱

The killing of Alex Pretti is a heartbreaking tragedy. It should also be a wake-up call to every American, regardless of party, that many of our core values as a nation are increasingly under assault.

Paysage aux Pâtis - Camille Pissarro, 1867.
Source : National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. 🇺🇸

Alex and tens of thousands of Minnesotans have boldly defended their neighbors against the murderous occupation of an American city by the federal government. I am enraged and heartbroken for Alex, his family, Minneapolis, and America.

Alex Jeffrey Pretti was an ICU nurse at a VA hospital. His life, through his profession, was dedicated to serving his community and our country.

As so many have now seen on video, his final act before he was killed by federal agents was doing everything in his power to protect his community.

We are incredibly proud of the resistance for preserving and releasing this footage so the truth cannot be buried. Alex Pretti. A 37-year-old ICU nurse at the VA. Murdered by Trump’s regime. This is not okay. He spent his life helping people. He was an American hero.

“If thou never hast gazed on beauty in moments of sorrow,
Thou canst with truth never boast
that thou true beauty hast seen.”

- Friedrich von Schiller.
#flowerfeed🌱

‪Favorite hybridizers: Grace Sturtevant, America's First Lady of #Irises. 'Cameliard', from 1926. So interesting how the color presents with different seasons and cameras. 🌱

“No, the heart that has truly loved never forgets,
But as truly loves on to the close.”

- Thomas Moore.
#flowerfeed🌱

Two pale mauve early crocuses blooming amid clover leaves, all sprinkled with moisture (rain or dew)

Signs of Spring? Not that we've really had much winter this year here in Victoria BC. 🌱📸📷 #BloomScrolling #InMyGarden #Flowers #Photography

Almost like hands emerging from the ground this pale purple flower reaches upwards through the grass with its long petals

Today’s flower 🌱 #1312
Crocus

Peaceful Kalanchoes in bloom, gently showing how small details can inspire big feeling.

Even the smallest bloom
can light up the world…

#BloomOnPurpose #photography
#nature #ArtInNature

Thank you Pope Leo XIV.

Tiny petals of Verbena reaching for sunlight like little dreamers

They say
the stars have watchers,
brushing blossoms
as they dream awake…

#BloomOnPurpose #photography
#nature #ArtInNature

Two purple-splotched pink and white orchids

Calypso bulbosa, our Fairy Slipper orchid, blooming above Clinton Gulch Dam Reservoir #nativeplants #orchids

#FallBackFlowers #FallBack to July 8 🌿

Well, more cute is needed I see. How about a teeny Wood Froglet peeking?

#herps 🌿

Five-lobed blue flowers with yellow fornices

Eritrichuium argenteum, our Arctic Alpine Forget-Me-Not, blooming above King Lake #nativeplants

#FallbackFlowers #Fallback to July 7 🌿

Millions of small flowers densely packed on the short grass prairie.

Somebody somewhere
Needs flowers tonight

This one really is
Best seen
Full screen

Superbe découverte du JWST. Des étoiles en fin de vie dont la composition initiale ressemble à celle après le Big Bang forme de la poussière. On ne s'y attendait pas!

HOLD THE ARCTIC LINE * DEFEND GREENLAND. DEFEND EUROPE. DEFEND CANADA.

Defend Greenland.
Defend Europe.
Defend Canada.

#ArcticDefence

Frosted dark leathery narrow green leaves of a Daphne.

Only a light dusting of snow here but we've had a few hard frosts that temporarily 'variagated' the Daphne the other morning #GardensHour 🌱

Looking up at a blue sky with puffy white clouds through a circle of towering giant sequoia trees.

On this @bipisci.bsky.social, we admire the diversity of trees, from the awe-inspiring 5,000-year-old Methuselah species to the sentinels of the swamps that protect wetlands, and we find out why their future is intertwined with ours. 🧪

Listen here: bigpicturescience.org/episodes/bes...

#flowerfeed🌱

Peace and love and flowers!