This is an extraordinary video, taken automatically from a home installed camera showing New Zealand’s White Island volcano eruption on 9 Dec 2019. 18 people died. Please wait for about 24 seconds when nature’s roar begins and, most importantly, wait another 20+ seconds after the blackout – you think the video has ended but it hasn’t and the screen clears to reveal the devastation.
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Globular Star Cluster NGC 6752
Image Credit & Copyright: Jose Joaquin Perez
Explanation: Some 13,000 light-years away toward the southern constellation Pavo, the globular star cluster NGC 6752 roams the halo of our Milky Way galaxy. Over 10 billion years old, NGC 6752 follows clusters Omega Centauri and 47 Tucanae as the third brightest globular in planet Earth’s night sky. It holds over 100 thousand stars in a sphere about 100 light-years in diameter. Telescopic explorations of the NGC 6752 have found that a remarkable fraction of the stars near the cluster’s core, are multiple star systems. They also reveal the presence of blue straggle stars, stars which appear to be too young and massive to exist in a cluster whose stars are all expected to be at least twice as old as the Sun. The blue stragglers are thought to be formed by star mergers and collisions in the dense stellar environment at the cluster’s core. This sharp color composite also features the cluster’s ancient red giant stars in yellowish hues. (Note: The bright, spiky blue star at 11 o’clock from the cluster center is a foreground star along the line-of-sight to NGC 6752)
Tomorrow’s picture: shadow play
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The Chinese coronavirus has arrived in America.
https://apnews.com/91a4b52778f1d0baeb1ef6856287671d
https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/index.html
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The Editor: LL, a loyal reader wants to know how a country could accidentally shoot down its own airplane. Do you know how it could happen ?
Aye Matey Cat: I sure do, people make bad decisions for a number of reasons. Here is one view on how it could happen.
Here is a an African American being honored.
The armed forces need to be on a set course not social engineering our society. The second link is a couple of months old.
Hundreds of these unelected military personnel and bureaucrats want to make their own policy.
Speaking of incompetent people, Congress and the news media are going to be sent to a reeducation resort in the Caribbean to learn how to cooperate and be civil. Polly will teach them.
The dems and politicians still think that we don’t know that there are two ( 2 ) systems of justice in America.
FISA Abuser Andrew McCabe to Participate In Forum On Stopping FISA Abuse
Puerto Rico is a corrupt disaster, just like Boeing and Washington, D.C.
https://nypost.com/2020/01/19/chaos-in-puerto-rico-as-mob-finds-unused-disaster-supplies/
https://www.foxnews.com/us/puerto-rico-hurricane-maria-aid-emergency-supplies-earthquake-fired
This is an old 1929 Cuban song.
