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Environmentally Conscious Cowboys Take Herd Of Crickets Out To Pasture U.S.·Jan 24, 2023 · BabylonBee.com BARNSDALL, OK — According to sources, a local ranch has decided to go green, exchanging their massive herd of beef cows for a herd of more environmentally friendly and delicious crickets. Several witnesses were on the scene as they took their crickets out to graze in a nearby field. "Yep, we reckoned it was time to do our part for Mother Earth and our ol' partner Bill Gates and git rid of them there methane-spittin' cows fer good," said ranch hand Tommy Two-Shirts. "I was a real good cowboy, but wranglin' crickets ain't easy, I'll tell you what." The Ranch currently has 15 cowboys on staff, most of which stayed on after the change to become professional cricketboys. Insiders report it has been a challenge, as crickets aren't easy to lasso, and most horses don't have good cricket-sense to know how to behave around a swarm of prime crickets. "We look forward to all of America gratefully adopting their delicious new bug diet," said Snaart Kligvile, the owner of the ranch and an executive at BlackRock. "Git along, little land shrimps! YEE HAW!" At publishing time, the ranch confirmed they had retained a private stash of prime Angus beef for Bill Gates' all-burger diet. Here: https://babylonbee.com/news/environmentally-conscious-cowboys-take-herd-of-crickets-out-to-pasture

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Why We Never Found The Malaysian Flight MH370? "Fred Adam 2 weeks ago As a retired airline pilot, there are many inaccurate comments here, too many to mention. In my research, my theory fits everything known about this. The one link that is rarely mentioned is the captain on this flight. Most people think airline pilots are mentally stable, but all of the data, except the state of mind of the captain which is impossible to fathom. Yet, there are clues to this as well. But an experienced knowledgeable pilot could easily have done all of these things." "James Smith 10 days ago (edited) This is a great documentary. I still feel the freescale/engineer connection is beyond coincidence. I've always wondered if the plane was taken specifically for this technology and/or it's engineers. Possibly by working directly with one of these engineers to pull this off...or from someone within that company working remotely." "Tony Barfridge 10 days ago (edited) I just watched a current affairs interview and the latest theory is one of the pilots was responsible for crashing it into the Indian Ocean. Don't know if he was just mentally disturbed, a disgruntled employee, unhappy dissatisfying life or what. But the search area has been narrowed down to 180 km area due to analysing signals recorded by a ham radio operator in Australia. It was put into a holding pattern (?) for 20 minutes which means he could have been communicating with the Malaysian Government, the airline, or other party for directions, confirmation, to know if he was being followed etc. If it is found the Airline or Gov is responsible somehow there would be multimillion dollar claims, which of course they wouldn't want, and would also explain the silence on the matter, and lack of investigation by those parties, as they would hope it will quietly go away and eventually be forgotten; yet many still want answers naturally. Finding the wreckage apparently will reveal the true story of what happened."

Methuselah Star Is Older Than The Universe Itself !... Methuselah star (HD 140283) - on space.com ... The oldest star in the universe is HD140283 — or Methuselah as it's commonly known. This Digitized Sky Survey image shows Methuselah star, located 190.1 light-years away. Astronomers refined the star's age to about 14.3 billion years (which is older than the universe), plus or minus 800 million years. Image released March 7, 2013.(Image credit: Digitized Sky Survey (DSS), STScI/AURA, Palomar/Caltech, and UKSTU/AAO) According to the generally accepted theory of the Big Bang, the age of the Universe is 13.8 billion years, but the oldest of the studied stars is more than the age of the Universe. How can this be, how can a star be older than the universe itself? The star of Methuselah is located in the constellation Libra and is 190 light-years distant from us, mass 1.3 times heavier than the Sun, one and a half times larger and 4 times brighter. Inside the star, anomalously few elements are heavier than helium, hundreds of times smaller than inside the Sun. The star of Methuselah has almost completely exhausted the reserves of hydrogen fuel in its core and is at the stage of evolution of the subgiant when hydrogen burns out, but the burning of helium has not yet begun. According to initial estimates, the age of the star was 16 billion years old, which shocked astronomers, it is much older than the universe. Later, the age estimate was reduced to 14.46 ± 0.8 billion years, but this is still more than the age of the Universe. The results of the latest study published in 2014, the age of the star was reduced to 14.27 billion years with the same error. Thus, formally, the lower limit of age estimates is lower than 13.8 billion, but scientists understand that they can not explain the paradox of the star Methuselah, it puts modern science at a standstill. Age still goes beyond the universe. There can be no errors in estimating the age of a star, but how did it happen that it is older than the universe itself? So the error may be in determining the age of the universe according to the modern cosmological model, where the Hubble constant is taken into account. The expansion rate of the Universe can change over time, therefore, the Hubble constant may turn out to be variable, which will make adjustments to the estimate of the age of the Universe. There are other difficulties that prevent you from accurately determining the age of the universe. The Universe is heterogeneous in structure and is expanding with great speed, space objects are far from us at great distances, dark matter and dark energy. However, the Big Bang theory may also be wrong. In the future, other stars older than the Universe and even older than the star of Methuselah may be discovered, for example, the hard-to-detect oldest white dwarfs who managed to go through the stage of the subgiant of the star of Methuselah, become a red giant, burn all the helium reserves in the core and discard the outer shell. The age of such white dwarfs is theoretically even higher and even the lower limit of measurement error will be higher than the age of the Universe. Here on soulask.com: https://www.soulask.com/methuselah-star-is-older-than-the-universe-itself/ ... and Home space link: https://www.soulask.com/space/ star-facts.com: https://www.star-facts.com/methuselah-star/ Oldest Known Star HD 140283: Backyard View space.com: A. Fujii and Z. Levay (STScI) - This is a backyard view of the sky surrounding the ancient star, cataloged as HD 140283, which lies 190.1 light-years from Earth. The star is the oldest known to astronomers to date. Space.com link: The Methuselah Star: Oldest Known Star Revealed (Gallery): https://www.space.com/20114-oldest-star-hubble-telescope-images.html - Mass Effect 2 Wallpaper space art probably - VERY nice picture from blogspot.com: https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-uwtYWK3tCrU/WGEI0ffJThI/AAAAAAAAD8I/85825Lmwf4AIbMmhCQKX2hR9aMPr1sXngCLcB/s1600/Mass%2BEffect%2B2%2BWallpaper.jpg Another Mass Effect 2 Wallpaper brighter and bigger from pinterest 1366 x 768...from pinterest: https://www.pinterest.com/pin/455145106072422886/ - with MORE nice space pictures...

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The green revolution is fuelling environmental destruction Net zero warning as the staggering true cost of going green is revealed A rare earth mine along Myanmar's border with China, an industry causing extreme environmental damage CREDIT: Supplied by Global Witness MORE: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2023/01/20/green-revolution-fuelling-environmental-destruction/

Researchers say time is an illusion. So why are we all obsessed with it? Far from the Earth, time gets extremely weird. Black holes can cause it to stretch and even break down entirely. NASA/JPL-Caltech America's official time is kept at a government laboratory in Boulder, Colo., and according to the clock at the entrance, I was seven minutes behind schedule. I rush across the campus of the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and arrive at the end of a long hallway where physicist Jeff Sherman was waiting patiently. "Sorry I'm running late," I tell him. "It's OK, we only measure the nanoseconds," Sherman jokes. It's never been easier to know what time it is. NIST broadcasts the time to points across the country. It's fed through computer networks and cellphone towers to our personal gadgets, which tick in perfect synchrony. Humanity's ever-improving agreement on the time smooths communication and transportation, and it lubricates our economy. But time has another side to it, one that the clocks don't show. "A lot of us grow up being fed this idea of time as absolute," says Chanda Prescod-Weinstein, a theoretical physicist at the University of New Hampshire. But Prescod-Weinstein says the time we're experiencing is a social construct. Real time is actually something quite different. In some of the odder corners of the Universe, space and time can stretch and slow — and sometimes even break down completely. For many people, this unruly version of time is "radical," she says. But as technology to better count the time grows ever more sophisticated, our everyday understanding of time itself may need to start changing. A Sisyphean task To get a sense of where the rigid time that governs most of our lives comes from, Sherman takes me into a beige-colored laboratory crammed with experimental equipment and computers. There are three big boxes looming above lab benches, holding three high-precision atomic clocks. Each box is labeled with a name: One's called George, another Fiona, and the third is Elvis.... MORE (if you've the time...): https://www.npr.org/2022/12/16/1139780043/what-is-time-physics-atomic-clocks-society

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DHS New Lab Reveals Graphic Images of Insect Vector Death Squads by Celeste Solum Article: https://shepherdsheart.life/blogs/news/dhs-new-lab-reveals-graphic-images-of-insect-vector-death-squads

Ladies! Stop Cleaning Your House! It is official, research published online in the American Thoracic Society's American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine shows that cleaning your house lead to decreased lung function. Cleaning your house is the equivalent of smoking 20 packs of cigarettes a year. The culprit is not cleaning per se, but cleaning with household cleaners or sprays.... MORE: https://shepherdsheart.life/blogs/health-and-beauty/ladies-stop-cleaning-your-house

Edible Bugs or Weapon? by Celeste Solum January 23, 2023 WHO REALLY DEPLOYS A PLAGUE OF INSECTS?..... MODERN HISTORY OF INSECT WARFARE (EW) The Colorado potato beetle The U.S. dropped over 300,000 uninfected mosquitoes on its own population........ WEAPONIZATION OF BUGS Fleas create fear. Ticks instill psychological impacts. Terrorize with the cockroach. Insects can carry radioactive isotopes turning them into dirty bombs, and much more. Bioterrorism GENETICALLY ENGINEERED INSECTS DARPA INSECT ALLIES IN SUMMARY Considering the amount of evidence from academia, military, and the private sector on the weaponization of insects- I know that I am not to keen on eating them myself. I have seen the documentation on what they are feeding those creepy crawlies. ..... ALL THIS (and MORE): https://shepherdsheart.life/blogs/news/eatable-green-bugs-or-weapon Blessings, Celeste Celeste Solum is a broadcaster, author, former government, organic farmer and is trained in nursing and environmental medicine. Celeste chronicles the space and earth conditions that trigger the rise and fall of modern & ancient civilizations, calendars, and volatile economies. Cycles are converging, all pointing to a cataclysmic period between 2020 to 2050 in what many scientists believe is an Extinction Level Event. HOME pages: https://shepherdsheart.life/blogs/news/ https://celestialreport.com/ ____________________________________________ Why Tiny Cactus Bugs In Red Food Dye Are A $35 Billion Industry | Big Business | Insider Business

EU approves delicious cricket powder to be mixed into various flours for you peasants Wolfgang Ramsay ··Jan 23, 2023 · NottheBee.com Here: https://notthebee.com/article/eu-approves-delicious-cricket-powder-to-be-mixed-into-various-flours-for-you-peasants

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CHINA SAYS THEY ARE SOLVING A MAJOR HYPERSONIC HURDLE WITH METAMATERIALS AND WIFI At hypersonic speeds, communication is impossible. Or, at least it was... MJ BANIAS·JANUARY 20, 2023 The Chinese government recently announced it has allegedly solved the issue of communication for hypersonic missiles and aircraft using WiFi and metamaterials, according to an article published in the South China Morning Post. Hypersonic weapons and aircraft are considered to be the next big step in warfare. Traveling at speeds exceeding Mach 5 (five times the speed of sound), a hypersonic missile can hit a target from a massive distance and, due to speed, is virtually impossible to shoot down by air defences. The surface temperature of a hypersonic weapon or aircraft can exceed 3,600 degrees Fahrenheit, or 2,000 degrees Centigrade, creating a hot cocoon of scorching radio-blocking plasma around it. Basically, at those speeds, the hypersonic system can’t communicate and goes dark. For any possible future travel via hypersonic aircraft, this becomes an obvious problem. Future patrons may want to send a text message on the five minute flight between London and New York, or check their socials for the latest celebrity gossip. The more immediate and real issue is the inability to call off a hypersonic attack. Traditional large scale missile-based weapons have failsafes designed to explode the weapon prior to contact with a target, allowing the attacker to call off a strike for any number of reasons. Send up a weapon travelling at hypersonic speeds, the ability to shut it down, blow it up, or alter its course is not possible; or at least it wasn’t. According to Chinese media, a Shanghai research team designed a sleek antenna that could allow hypersonic missiles to communicate while travelling between Mach 5 and Mach 20. While the Chinese military has claimed they have been able to communicate with hypersonic missiles for over a year now during tests, the current system, which uses satellite and ground based networks, costs a fortune to build and operate. In the January edition of Journal of Microwaves, a peer-reviewed publication run by the Chinese Institute of Electronics, researchers said this new system would utilize low frequencies to aid in “target identification, positioning and other critical functions.” The team created a soft and slim antenna that attaches to the cooler aft of the weapon. According to the team, the ground tests indicated that the antenna achieved “remarkable” performance at frequencies between 5.2 to 5.8 gigahertz, the same low frequencies usually used for 5G smartphones, high-speed Wi-Fi routers, and other internet-based devices. Moreover, compared to the military’s work in hypersonic communications, the Shanghai team says it’s really cheap. According to the paper, the team developed a thin membrane metamaterial composed of wires arranged with maze-like gaps between each one that can trap or alter electromagnetic waves. Since communication is happening at the lower frequencies, more “noise” is produced over the missile’s surface, leading to a drop in signal strength and quality. In simple terms, the metamaterial’s complex wire labyrinth is able to soak up more signal and increase communication quality. In turn, the antenna can convert that low frequency signal and focus it into a beam, creating an effective communication system between the hypersonic weapon and the operator. Unfortunately, the state-run journal did not provide the ground test data, making it impossible to verify the claims made by the team. Here: https://thedebrief.org/china-hypersonic-metamaterial-wifi/

Amla Is the Most Amazing Medicinal Plant You Haven’t Heard Of Nature has given a wonderful gift to mankind in medicinal plants to promote healthy, happy and disease-free life. These plants play a vital role in natural healing. If I were allowed to choose the most amazing medicinal plant to treat medical conditions, it would be Indian gooseberry (amla). This plant has some exceptional benefits to health and our overall well-being. Amla or Phyllanthus Emblica belongs to family Euphorbiaceae. It is a small to medium sized deciduous tree found throughout India, Pakistan, Uzbekistan, Sri Lanka, Southeast Asia, China, and Malaysia. According to the national institute of health, Phyllanthus Emblica is highly nutritious and could be an important source of vitamin c, amino acids, and minerals. It can be used as a medicine and as a tonic to improve vitality and resistance power. Research shows that a unique complex within Indian gooseberry is super nutritious. It has more antioxidant activity than blueberries; it has 20 times more vitamin c than lemon juice. It has 30 times more polyphenols than red wine and has more gallic acid (a potent antioxidant) than any other fruit. What are the uses of amla in traditional Indian medicine? What are the benefits of this wonderful superfood? How can we use it easily at home with simple DIY recipes? Read on to know more....here: https://www.theepochtimes.com/health/amla-is-the-most-amazing-medicinal-plant-you-havent-heard-of_5003665.html

US Marines Defeat DARPA Robot by Hiding Under a Cardboard Box The Pentagon’s Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) has invested some of its resources into a robot that’s been trained—likely among other things—to identify humans. There’s just one little problem: The robot is cartoonishly easy to confuse. Army veteran, former Pentagon policy analyst, and author Paul Scharre is gearing up to release a new book called Four Battlegrounds: Power in the Age of Artificial Intelligence. Despite the fact that the book isn’t scheduled to hit shelves until Feb. 28, Twitter users are already sharing excerpts via social media. This includes The Economist‘s defense editor, Shashank Joshi, who shared a particularly laughable passage on Twitter. In the excerpt, Scharre describes a week during which DARPA calibrated its robot’s human recognition algorithm alongside a group of US Marines. The Marines and a team of DARPA engineers spent six days walking around the robot, training it to identify the moving human form. On the seventh day, the engineers placed the robot at the center of a traffic circle and devised a little game: The Marines had to approach the robot from a distance and touch the robot without being detected. DARPA was quickly humbled. Scharre writes that all eight Marines were able to defeat the robot using techniques that could have come straight out of a Looney Tunes episode. Two of the Marines somersaulted toward the center of the traffic circle, thus using a form of movement the robot hadn’t been trained to identify. Another pair shuffled toward the robot under a cardboard box... MORE: https://www.extremetech.com/extreme/342413-us-marines-defeat-darpa-robot-by-hiding-under-a-cardboard-box

Not only, not only... Rumble is above all a tool in the hands of pro-RUSSIANS to spread pro-Russian propaganda by broadcasting RT (RUSSIA Today...) to support Russian government; it is a pity that this tool of Russian propaganda also gives a little freedom to the West... it is paradoxical and disturbing! Blame the US government and other Western governments in general for causing the birth of this tool... more freedom in the West will give less propaganda tools to the Russians... of course... Read about Rumble/RT: Rumble still airs Russia's state-controlled news channel. Its US headquarters could soon be in Sarasota: https://wusfnews.wusf.usf.edu/politics-issues/2022-03-28/rumble-still-airs-russia-state-controlled-news-channel-headquarters-could-soon-be-in-sarasota Report: RT and Sputnik’s Role in Russia’s Disinformation and Propaganda Ecosystem: https://www.state.gov/report-rt-and-sputniks-role-in-russias-disinformation-and-propaganda-ecosystem/ QUORA: Is RT a Russian propaganda channel?: https://www.quora.com/Is-RT-a-Russian-propaganda-channel?

By Ryan Whitwam on December 2, 2022 at 9:31 am We all, hopefully, learned long ago not to open suspicious Microsoft Office files, which have long been one of the most common vectors for malware infection. According to a new report, there’s a new public enemy number one when it comes to cybersecurity: ZIP and RAR archives. Data from HP Wolf Security shows that encrypted file archives have become the most common way of distributing malware, and your antivirus scanner may be of little help. According to HP’s threat analysis group, ZIP and RAR archives accounted for 42 percent of malware attacks between July and September this year. This method jumped 11 percent over the course of 2022, spurred on by more advanced methods of social engineering (phishing) and HTML fakery. That makes malicious archives more common than viruses distributed via Microsoft Word and Excel files, which have been the most popular method for three years running. Sending out malware as archives can make it harder for even savvy internet users to stay safe. HP Wolf Security, explains that these archives can obscure the dangerous payload from scanners because they cannot see inside the encrypted containers. These ZIP and RAR files are often paired with a phony HTML file that masquerades as a PDF. When run, they produce a fake web document viewer which has the user input a password. However, that password actually decrypts the archive file, exposing the system to malware. HP’s threat group says the malware authors spent a great deal of effort making the fake HTML pages look as legitimate as possible.... MORE: https://www.extremetech.com/internet/341244-zip-rar-have-surpassed-office-files-as-most-used-malware-containers

NASA Prepares to Develop Its Next Large Space Telescope (Image: Jonny Gios/Unsplash) You’d think NASA would want to take a breather after its successful launch of the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), but that isn’t the case. NASA is already gearing up to develop its next big telescope using the insights gleaned from last year’s launch. When the National Academies published Astro2020 (short for “ Pathways to Discovery in Astronomy and Astrophysics for the 2020s”) in 2021, the decadal survey urged NASA to pursue the development of a future space telescope that would operate at ultraviolet, visible and near-infrared wavelengths. The goal, according to the survey, was for this telescope to pave the way for far-infrared and X-ray telescopes. All of these projects could be housed under one umbrella program. NASA appears to have taken Astro2020’s recommendation to heart. Last year the agency kicked off the Great Observatory Technology Maturation Program (GOMAP), a tech development initiative that would focus on what are commonly called the “New Great Observatories.” According to NASA officials who spoke at the 241st Meeting of the American Astronomical Society earlier this month, GOMAP’s first task is to develop a 6.5-meter UV, visible, and near-infrared space telescope—the very one Astro2020 recommended just over a year ago. It will be called the Habitable Worlds Observatory (HWO)... More: https://www.extremetech.com/extreme/342340-nasa-prepares-to-develop-its-next-large-space-telescope

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Researchers Find 17-Pound Meteorite During Antarctica Expedition (weighs a whopping 16.7 pounds = 7.575 Kilograms) More: https://www.extremetech.com/extreme/342435-researchers-find-17-pound-meteorite-during-antarctica-expedition

Scientists Have Successfully Reversed Aging in Mice We’ve recently made some major strides toward understanding and managing aging on a larger scale. In 2022 alone, scientists found ways to predict a person’s lifespan, use fecal microbiota to “restore” youth in rodents, and make human cells look and function 30 years younger than they are. But while these steps are significant, some might say they pale in comparison to a new advancement in anti-aging science. Biologists and geneticists at Harvard Medical School have found a way to reverse the aging process in mice, helping them to regain their eyesight, form sharper brains, and produce healthier muscle and kidney tissue. Their paper, published last week in the journal Cell, details the “information theory” of aging: a new theory from genetics professor David Sinclair that links the aging process with a loss of information. The paper also describes a pair of experiments in which Sinclair’s team accelerated and reversed aging in mice. Sinclair’s information theory of aging proposes that cells “forget” how to read the body’s DNA. The epigenome, a group of chemical compounds that tell the genome what to do and when to do it, can activate or deactivate a single gene. But the epigenome is highly reactive to external circumstances, like environmental toxins or a person’s tendency to smoke or skip sleep. (This is why people who live in highly polluted areas or engage in a lot of unhealthy habits have higher “biological ages.”) This means a person’s epigenome rarely ends up performing long-term in the way biology originally planned, losing individual genetic functions along the way... MORE: https://www.extremetech.com/extreme/342313-scientists-have-successfully-reversed-aging-in-mice

Pharmaceutical Companies Are No Longer Required to Test Drugs on Animals THANK YOU! Beginning this year, the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) will be required to comply with a new law that waives animal testing requirements for pharmaceutical companies. Drug makers will now have the option to shift directly toward human trials without first testing their products on mice, rats, rabbits, or other animals. The change is courtesy of the FDA Modernization Act 2.0, a bill Senator Rand Paul’s (R-KY) and Senator Cory Booker’s (D-NJ) first introduced back in October 2021.... Here: https://www.extremetech.com/extreme/342310-pharmaceutical-companies-are-no-longer-required-to-test-drugs-on-animals EDIT: to see the picture, allow extremetech.com in your adblocker (uBlock...)

The magnificent starburst galaxy Messier 82 This mosaic image of the magnificent starburst galaxy, Messier 82 (M82) is the sharpest wide-angle view ever obtained of M82. It is a galaxy remarkable for its webs of shredded clouds and flame-like plumes of glowing hydrogen blasting out from its central regions where young stars are being born 10 times faster than they are inside in our Milky Way Galaxy. Credit: NASA, ESA and the Hubble Heritage Team (STScI/AURA). Acknowledgment: J. Gallagher (University of Wisconsin), M. Mountain (STScI) and P. Puxley (NSF). Here: https://esahubble.org/images/heic0604a/

The Bubble Nebula – a Hubble Telescope mosaic http://astrophoto.net/wp/wp-content/uploads/bubbleHST_NHO_crop-1800x1112.jpg http://astrophoto.net/wp/2018/06/02/the-bubble-nebula-a-hubble-telescope-mosaic/ This image is from esahubble.org: https://esahubble.org/images/heic1608a/ This new NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image, released to celebrate Hubble’s 26th year in orbit (in 2016), captures in stunning clarity what looks like a gigantic cosmic soap bubble. The object, known as the Bubble Nebula, is in fact a cloud of gas and dust illuminated by the brilliant star within it. The vivid new portrait of this dramatic scene wins the Bubble Nebula a place in the exclusive Hubble hall of fame, following an impressive lineage of Hubble anniversary images. Twenty six years ago (in 2016), on 24 April 1990, the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope was launched into orbit aboard the space shuttle Discovery as the first space telescope of its kind. Every year, to commemorate this momentous day in space history, Hubble spends a modest portion of its observing time capturing a spectacular view of a specially chosen astronomical object. This year’s anniversary object is the Bubble Nebula, also known as NGC 7635, which lies 8 000 light-years away in the constellation Cassiopeia. This object was first discovered by William Herschel in 1787 and this is not the first time it has caught Hubble’s eye. However, due to its very large size on the sky, previous Hubble images have only shown small sections of the nebula, providing a much less spectacular overall effect. Now, a mosaic of four images from Hubble’s Wide Field Camera 3 (WFC3) allows us to see the whole object in one picture for the first time. This complete view of the Bubble Nebula allows us to fully appreciate the almost perfectly symmetrical shell which gives the nebula its name. This shell is the result of a powerful flow of gas — known as a stellar wind — from the bright star visible just to the left of centre in this image. The star, SAO 20575, is between ten and twenty times the mass of the Sun and the pressure created by its stellar wind forces the surrounding interstellar material outwards into this bubble-like form. The giant molecular cloud that surrounds the star — glowing in the star’s intense ultraviolet radiation — tries to stop the expansion of the bubble. However, although the sphere already measures around ten light-years in diameter, it is still growing, owing to the constant pressure of the stellar wind — currently at more than 100 000 kilometres per hour! Description (and more): https://esahubble.org/news/heic1608/