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M42- The Great Orion Nebula - My first attempt at this famous object...

I took a photo of a portion of the Orion constelation as it rose above the horizon in Saskatchewan, Canada. Capturing some of the different colours and nebula in that region of the sky (OC)

A Syrian newborn underwent circumcision and developed signs of glans gangrene leading to total loss of the glans. Penile reconstruction using scrotal flap was performed.

Instagram banned anti-vaccine messaging, but anti-vaxxers are hijacking pro-choice hashtags to game the system

Good morning. To solve a crime, you don't drag everyone in the area to the police thana and force them to prove they didn't do it To detect some undocumented migrants, you don't drag all 1.3 billion Indians to the local babu and force them to prove their citizenship #RejectNRC - Gautam Bhatia

TIL in the 1964 film Zulu, the Zulu king Cetshwayo kaMpande was portrayed by his actual great-grandson

TIL 10,000 Southerners fled the US for a small city in Brazil after the American Confederacy lost the Civil War in May 1865

Missouri Girls High School Basketball Record for Consecutive Wins Stopped at 123 Games.

Six-man football is a thing

Still my favorite athlete quote ever: “Left hand, right hand, it doesn't matter. I'm amphibious.” said by the late Charles Shackleford

Gerrymandering is alive and well. The coming battle will be bigger than ever.

I took this 33 hour exposure of the Horsehead and Flame Nebula from my backyard

Thanks to the space enthusiasts on Reddit for introducing me to the amazing new hobby of astrophotography - these are my favorite images from 2019, my first year of learning to photograph the cosmos!

A very colorful view in the night sky, here is a deep look at one of the closest star-forming regions in our Milky Way. I photographed this with a standard DSLR and lens ... collecting light for 94 minutes. [OC]

Amy McGrath Is Now Officially Challenging Mitch McConnell - McGrath, a former Marine pilot, is already out-fundraising the Senate Republican leader.

Magnetic Ropes Surround 'Whale Galaxy' 80,000 Light-Years From Earth

The Biggest Alien Planet Discoveries of 2019

LPT if you're sending flowers to someone. Instead of calling a national number, quick search for a nearby flower shop. You'll get more for your money that way.

Betelgeuse is acting strange, and astronomers are buzzing

TIL according to Matt Groening, FOX was never supportive of Futurama, as they moved the show around from time slot to time slot unpredictably for four years, which resulted in poor ratings and its cancellation in 2003. This move left many Futurama fans and production crew shocked and angry.

Oklahoma trying to keep it together going into the half 14 to 49

Much good, such wow.

Peach Bowl 1st Half Highlights

LPT: Try this next time you have a cold and one nostril is stopped up.

Clippers' Kawhi Leonard honored as AP male athlete of the year for 2019

Somebody at ESPN must be salty about Alabama not being in the CFP

China's wildly ambitious future in space just got a big boost with the successful launch of its new heavy-lift rocket

Humans and autoimmune diseases continue to evolve together

Massive rally in Puducherry against the unconstitutional CAA and NRC

LPT: If you're sick; PLEASE stay home and rest up.

TIL that an 18-year-old man lost his life saving a baby girl and her mother, during rampaging floods in the Philippines. He was swept away as he helped them reach cover. He’d already saved more than 30 people from the floodwaters and had helped evacuate his family.

Lisa Murkowski's 'courage' in splitting with McConnell on impeachment trial process 'could be contagious', senator says

Kellyanne Conway violated the Hatch Act 60 times, ethics watchdog claims in new lawsuit

Betelguese, one of the sky's brightest stars, is now the faintest it's been in a century. But despite rampant speculation that it's about to go supernova, astronomers say it probably won't happen soon. Instead, they expect it to reach its faintest in January, before brightening back up again.

10 astronomy events you don’t want to miss in 2020

Oh Romeo...

LPT: Be nice to your friends’ younger siblings. They’ll appreciate it and you might even end up becoming good friends with them in the long run.

LPT: On vacation? Don't eat anywhere near tourist spots. The food is rarely authentic and twice as expensive. Walk a few blocks away, usually about where there aren't anymore signs subtitled in English, then eat there.

LPT Showing up is 50% of being fit

LPT: instead of asking what someone is doing before inviting them to an event tell them what you are doing and invite them to attend. Avoiding awkward excuses.

Trump could mandate free access to federally funded research papers - Publishers warn the change could "jeopardize the IP of American organizations."

TIL about gleaning, collecting leftover crops from farmers fields after they have been commercially harvested or not profitable to harvest. It is described in the Hebrew Bible that became a legally enforced entitlement of the poor in a number of Christian kingdoms

George W. Bush former lawyer: McConnell treating impeachment like 'an all-white jury for a Klansman trial'

LPT: If you’re ever thinking about something embarrassing you did x amount of years ago, try to remember something embarrassing someone else did. It will most likely be really hard if you can do it at all.

TIL in South Korea, spinning “barber poles” outside an establishment signify a brothel not a barbershop

A true kamikaze

TIL about Klepetan, a male stork who migrates from South Africa to Croatia every year for the last 15 years to be with Melena, a female stork who can't fly after being shot by a hunter. She lives indoors until his return and they stay in a nest on a roof until he leaves. They've had over 40 babies.

New boson appears in nuclear decay, breaks standard model - Weird electron-positrons from decaying beryllium and helium hint at new boson.

Video: Football's Greatest Moments 2019

Quite accurate