Enigma

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My pen name is K.E. Milrona. I am: one of the storytellers for the Andromeda Galaxy... a retired dragon hunter... cryptozoologist... lover of horror games, limes, and Tsar'lena.

My heart is heavy. Walter Koenig, our Ensign Pavel Chekov, passed away early today. Walter and I met on the bridge of the Enterprise in the 1960s, and we stayed friends for nearly six decades. When Brad and I married in 2008, Walter stood beside us as our best man.

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My pal Danielle Koenig shared that her father Walter Koenig passed away last night at age 90. A performer whose kindness and warmth shone through the screen. He will be well remembered.

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“We’ve established that the observatory is fully functional,” said Julie McEnery, #NASARoman senior project scientist at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center. “The telescope can guide and take exposures, data flows appropriately, and we can slew from one place to another for observations.” 🔭

NASA’s Roman Space Telescope Enters Final Commissioning Phase - NASA Science

NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope mission has now entered the science commissioning phase, having successfully completed a comprehensive checkout and

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The Hupfeld Phonoliszt-Violina is an early 1900s German orchestrion that uses a rotating bow and pneumatic fingers to play three violins and a piano from a perforated paper roll, dubbed the “8th wonder of the world” at the 1910 Brussels World's Fair. IG: @andreridd ~ Netherlands

Through powerful stellar winds, these young glittering stars at the center pushed away most of the gas from which they were born, creating this central void that offers a ghostly appearance in this Hubble image of LHA 129-N44. Credit: ESA, NASA, D. Gouliermis. 🔭

A dense field of stars surrounded by wispy clouds of gas and dust. Pale blue and grey clouds form an intricate web across the scene, with darker clouds of dust concentrated toward the lower right. Numerous bright stars appear in shades of blue, white, and orange. The background of space, clearest at the left, middle, and edges, is black.

Hello, travelers - the next VOD is coming soon. Your Enigma is a klutz and fell a fortnight ago. This resulted in a head injury, another concussion to add to my TBI collection. 😅 I took the last two weeks off to start recovering. I'm feeling well enough to return to work. But, I'm two weeks behind!