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Marcin Hoppe

@marcinhoppe.bsky.social

I am a computer programmer. I enjoy maintaining software, fixing bugs and debugging. I also know a few things about information security. Outside of work I am a family guy. I like good coffee. I play tennis.

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Ursula K. Le Guin @ursulakleguin.com · 7mo ago

We see what you did there, Pluribus.

A screenshot of Rhea Seehorn as Carol Sturka in Pluribus. She's sitting on a poolside lounger and looks pensive as she looks up from reading The Left Hand of Darkness.

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Astronomy Picture of the Day 🪐@apod.shinyakato.dev · 2y ago

🔭 The Shells and Jets of Galaxy Centaurus A Image Credit: Rolf Olsen apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap24121...

A galaxy is seen in the center of the image. Faint shells are seen around it. A red-colored jet is seen emanating from the galaxy toward the lower right. Please see the explanation for more detailed information.

Astronomy Picture of the Day 🪐@apod.shinyakato.dev · 2y ago

🔭 Pleiades: The Seven Sisters Star Cluster Image Credit & Copyright: Francesco Pelizzo apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap24120...

A star field shows many bright blue stars as well as bright blue reflecting gas. Please see the explanation for more detailed information.

Astronomy Picture of the Day 🪐@apod.shinyakato.dev · 2y ago

🔭 Aurora around Saturn's North Pole Image Credit: NASA, ESA, Hubble, OPAL Program, J. DePasquale (STScI), L. Lamy (Obs. Paris) apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap24120...

A picture of Saturn is shown with tan clouds and light rings. Surrounding the north pole at the top are bright blue swirls. Please see the explanation for more detailed information.

Astronomy Picture of the Day 🪐@apod.shinyakato.dev · 2y ago

🔭 NGC 300: A Galaxy of Stars Image Credit & Copyright: Daniel Stern apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap24120...

A classic spiral galaxy is shown with blue spiral arms. The center is yellow-red. Many star clusters are easily visible. Please see the explanation for more detailed information.

Astronomy Picture of the Day 🪐@apod.shinyakato.dev · 2y ago

🔭 Xuyi Station and the Fireball Image Credit & Copyright: Hao Liu (Stanford University) apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap24120...

Colorful and bright, this streaking fireball meteor was captured in a single exposure taken at Purple Mountain (Tsuchinshan) Observatory’s Xuyi Station in 2020, during planet Earth's annual Perseid meteor shower. The dome in the foreground houses the China Near Earth Object Survey Telescope (CNEOST), the largest multi-purpose Schmidt telescope in China. Located in Xuyi County, Jiangsu Province, the station began its operation as an extension of China's Purple Mountain Observatory in 2006. Darling of planet Earth's night skies in 2024, the bright comet designated Tsuchinshan-ATLAS (C/2023 A3) was discovered in images taken there on 2023 January 9. The discovery is jointly credited to NASA's ATLAS robotic survey telescope at Sutherland Observatory, South Africa. Other comet discoveries associated with the historic Purple Mountain Observatory and bearing the observatory's transliterated Mandarin name include periodic comets 60/P Tsuchinshan and 62/P Tsuchinshan.

Astronomy Picture of the Day 🪐@apod.shinyakato.dev · 2y ago

🔭 Stereo Jupiter near Opposition Image Credit & Copyright: Marco Lorenzi apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap24120...

Jupiter looks sharp in these two rooftop telescope images. Both were captured last year on November 17 from Singapore, planet Earth, about two weeks after Jupiter's 2023 opposition. Climbing high in midnight skies the giant planet was a mere 33.4 light-minutes from Singapore. That's about 4 astronomical units away. Jupiter's planet girdling dark belts and light zones are visible in remarkable detail, along with the giant world's whitish oval vortices. Its signature Great Red Spot is prominent in the south. Jupiter rotates rapidly on its axis once every 10 hours. So, based on video frames taken only 15 minutes apart, these images form a stereo pair. Look at the center of the pair and cross your eyes until the separate images come together to see the 3D effect. Of course Jupiter is now not far from its 2024 opposition. Planet Earth is set to pass between the Solar System's ruling gas giant and the Sun on December 7.

Astronomy Picture of the Day 🪐@apod.shinyakato.dev · 2y ago

🔭 Ice Clouds over a Red Planet Image Credit: NASA, JPL-Caltech, Kevin M. Gill; Processing: Rogelio Bernal Andreo apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap24120...

Ice clouds are seen over the surface of Mars on the upper right. Toward the lower left is a bright spot in the sky which is likely the Sun setting through Martian dust. Please see the explanation for more detailed information.

Markus Winand @winand.at · 2y ago

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Astronomy Picture of the Day 🪐@apod.shinyakato.dev · 2y ago

🔭 Cosmic Latte: The Average Color of the Universe Image Color Credit: Karl Glazebrook & Ivan Baldry (JHU) apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap24120...

There is no obvious picture. There is just a background with a single color. This color, a type of off-white or beige, is called cosmic latte. Please see the explanation for more detailed information.

Astronomy Picture of the Day 🪐@apod.shinyakato.dev · 2y ago

🔭 Winter and Summer on a Little Planet Image Credit & Copyright: Camille Niel apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap24113...

Winter and summer appear to come on a single night to this stunning little planet. It's planet Earth of course. The digitally mapped, nadir centered panorama covers 360x180 degrees and is composed of frames recorded during January and July from the Col du Galibier in the French Alps. Stars and nebulae of the northern winter (bottom) and summer Milky Way form the complete arcs traversing the rugged, curved horizon. Cars driving along on the road during a summer night illuminate the 2,642 meter high mountain pass, but snow makes access difficult during winter months except by serious ski touring. Cycling fans will recognize the Col du Galibier as one of the most famous climbs in planet Earth's Tour de France.

Astronomy Picture of the Day 🪐@apod.shinyakato.dev · 2y ago

🔭 Messier 4 Image Credit & Copyright: Steve Crouch apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap24112...

Messier 4 can be found west of bright red-giant star Antares, alpha star of the constellation Scorpius. M4 itself is only just visible from dark sky locations, even though the globular cluster of 100,000 stars or so is a mere 5,500 light-years away. Still, its proximity to prying telescopic eyes makes it a prime target for astronomical explorations. Recent studies have included Hubble observations of M4's pulsating cepheid variable stars, cooling white dwarf stars, and ancient, pulsar orbiting exoplanet PSR B1620-26 b. This sharp image was captured with a small telescope on planet Earth. At M4's estimated distance it spans about 50 light-years across the core of the globular star cluster.

Astronomy Picture of the Day 🪐@apod.shinyakato.dev · 2y ago

🔭 NGC 206 and the Star Clouds of Andromeda Image Credit & Copyright: Roberto Marinoni apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap24112...

The large stellar association cataloged as NGC 206 is nestled within the dusty arms of the neighboring Andromeda galaxy along with the galaxy's pinkish star-forming regions. Also known as M31, the spiral galaxy is a mere 2.5 million light-years away. NGC 206 is found at the center of this sharp and detailed close-up of the southwestern extent of Andromeda's disk. The bright, blue stars of NGC 206 indicate its youth. In fact, its youngest massive stars are less than 10 million years old. Much larger than the open or galactic clusters of young stars in the disk of our Milky Way galaxy, NGC 206 spans about 4,000 light-years. That's comparable in size to the giant stellar nurseries NGC 604 in nearby spiral M33 and the Tarantula Nebula in the Large Magellanic Cloud.

Astronomy Picture of the Day 🪐@apod.shinyakato.dev · 2y ago

🔭 The Sombrero Galaxy from Webb and Hubble Image Credit: NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI, Hubble Heritage Project (STScI, AURA) apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap24112...

The top panel shows a flat ring with a bright center in blue, even though it was taken in near infrared light. The bottom panel shows the same galaxy in visible light and shows a brighter and more expansive center against which the flat ring appears dark. Please see the explanation for more detailed information.

Astronomy Picture of the Day 🪐@apod.shinyakato.dev · 2y ago

🔭 The Horsehead Nebula Image Credit & Copyright: Alex Lin (Chilescope) apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap24112...

The top half glows red, while the bottom half is filled with dark dust. Protruding into the red is a dark dust lane that resembles a horse's head. Please see the explanation for more detailed information.

Astronomy Picture of the Day 🪐@apod.shinyakato.dev · 2y ago

🔭 Interplanetary Earth Image Credit: Cassini Imaging Team, SSI, JPL, ESA, NASA & NASA / JHU Applied Physics Lab / Carnegie Inst. Washington apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap24112...

In an interplanetary first, on July 19, 2013 Earth was photographed on the same day from two other worlds of the Solar System, innermost planet Mercury and ringed gas giant Saturn. Pictured on the left, Earth is the pale blue dot just below the rings of Saturn, as captured by the robotic Cassini spacecraft then orbiting the outermost gas giant. On that same day people across planet Earth snapped many of their own pictures of Saturn. On the right, the Earth-Moon system is seen against the dark background of space as captured by the sunward MESSENGER spacecraft, then in Mercury orbit. MESSENGER took its image as part of a search for small natural satellites of Mercury, moons that would be expected to be quite dim. In the MESSENGER image, the brighter Earth and Moon are both overexposed and shine brightly with reflected sunlight. Destined not to return to their home world, both Cassini and MESSENGER have since retired from their missions of Solar System exploration.

Astronomy Picture of the Day 🪐@apod.shinyakato.dev · 2y ago

🔭 The Medusa Nebula Image Credit & Copyright: Bruno Rota Sargi apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap24112...

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Astronomy Picture of the Day 🪐@apod.shinyakato.dev · 2y ago

🔭 The Elephant's Trunk in Cepheus Image Credit: Image Credit & Copyright: Giorgio Ferrari apod.nasa.gov/apod/image/2...

Astronomy Picture of the Day 🪐@apod.shinyakato.dev · 2y ago

🔭 Earthset from Orion apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap24112...

ght billion people are about to disappear in this snapshot from space taken on 2022 November 21. On the sixth day of the Artemis I mission, their home world is setting behind the Moon's bright edge as viewed by an external camera on the outbound Orion spacecraft. Orion was headed for a powered flyby that took it to within 130 kilometers of the lunar surface. Velocity gained in the flyby maneuver was used to reach a distant retrograde orbit around the Moon. That orbit is considered distant because it's another 92,000 kilometers beyond the Moon, and retrograde because the spacecraft orbited in the opposite direction of the Moon's orbit around planet Earth. Orion entered its distant retrograde orbit on November 25. Swinging around the Moon, Orion reached a maximum distance (just over 400,000 kilometers) from Earth on November 28, exceeding a record set by Apollo 13 for most distant spacecraft designed for human space exploration. The Artemis II mission, carrying 4 astronauts around the moon and back again, is scheduled to launch no earlier than September 2025.

Astronomy Picture of the Day 🪐@apod.shinyakato.dev · 2y ago

What's happening with these clouds? While it may seem that these long and thin clouds are pointing toward the top of a hill, and that maybe a world-famous observatory is located there, only part of that is true. In terms of clouds, the formation is a chance superposition of impressively periodic undulating air currents in Earth's lower atmosphere. Undulatus, a type of Asperitas cloud, form at the peaks where the air is cool enough to cause the condensation of opaque water droplets. The wide-angle nature of the panorama creates the illusion that the clouds converge over the hill. In terms of land, there really is a world-famous observatory at the top of that peak: the Carnegie Science's Las Campanas Observatory in the Atacama Desert of Chile. The two telescope domes visible are the 6.5-meter Magellan Telescopes. The featured coincidental vista was a surprise but was captured by the phone of a quick-thinking photographer in late September. Your Sky Surprise: What picture did APOD feature on your birthday? (post 1995)

Ryan Castellucci 🜬@rya.nc · 2y ago

Oh, I never posted my gotofail story on here. Early 2014, someone came to me about a catastrophic vulnerability in Apple's TLS implementation. I shit you not, they'd overheard someone at a bar drunkenly bragging about how they were going to sell it to a FVEY intelligence agency for six figures.

Astronomy Picture of the Day 🪐@apod.shinyakato.dev · 2y ago

Stars and Dust in the Pacman Nebula - © Malcolm Loro - Pic - HD Pic - About Astronomy Picture Of the Day #astrophotos Maintained by @shinyakato.dev 🔭 READ MORE 🔭

Stars can create huge and intricate dust sculptures from the dense and dark molecular clouds from which they are born. The tools the stars use to carve their detailed works are high energy light and fast stellar winds. The heat they generate evaporates the dark molecular dust as well as causing ambient hydrogen gas to disperse and glow. Pictured here, a new open cluster of stars designated IC 1590 is nearing completion around the intricate interstellar dust structures in the emission nebula NGC 281, dubbed the Pac-man Nebula because of its overall shape. The dust cloud just above center is classified as a Bok Globule as it may gravitationally collapse and form a star -- or stars. The Pacman Nebula lies about 10,000 light years away toward the constellation of Cassiopeia.

Astronomy Picture of the Day 🪐@apod.shinyakato.dev · 2y ago

LDN 1471: A Windblown Star Cavity - Pic - HD Pic - About Astronomy Picture Of the Day #astrophotos Maintained by @shinyakato.dev 🔭 READ MORE 🔭

What is the cause of this unusual parabolic structure? This illuminated cavity, known as LDN 1471, was created by a newly forming star, seen as the bright source at the peak of the parabola. This protostar is experiencing a stellar outflow which is then interacting with the surrounding material in the Perseus Molecular Cloud, causing it to brighten. We see only one side of the cavity -- the other side is hidden by dark dust. The parabolic shape is caused by the widening of the stellar-wind blown cavity over time. Two additional structures can also be seen either side of the protostar; these are known as Herbig-Haro objects, again caused by the interaction of the outflow with the surrounding material. What causes the striations on the cavity walls, though, remains unknown. The featured image was taken by NASA and ESA’s Hubble Space Telescope after an original detection by the Spitzer Space Telescope. Explore Your Universe: Random APOD Generator

Astronomy Picture of the Day 🪐@apod.shinyakato.dev · 2y ago

Pluto at Night - Pic - HD Pic - About Astronomy Picture Of the Day #astrophotos Maintained by @shinyakato.dev 🔭 READ MORE 🔭

The night side of Pluto spans this shadowy scene. In the stunning spacebased perspective the Sun is 4.9 billion kilometers (almost 4.5 light-hours) behind the dim and distant world. It was captured by far flung New Horizons in July of 2015 when the spacecraft was at a range of some 21,000 kilometers from Pluto, about 19 minutes after its closest approach. A denizen of the Kuiper Belt in dramatic silhouette, the image also reveals Pluto's tenuous, surprisingly complex layers of hazy atmosphere. Near the top of the frame the crescent twilight landscape includes southern areas of nitrogen ice plains now formally known as Sputnik Planitia and rugged mountains of water-ice in the Norgay Montes.

Astronomy Picture of the Day 🪐@apod.shinyakato.dev · 2y ago

IC 348 and Barnard 3 - ©Ashraf Abu Sara - Pic - HD Pic - About Astronomy Picture Of the Day #astrophotos Maintained by @shinyakato.dev 🔭 READ MORE 🔭

A great nebulous region near bright star omicron Persei offers this study in cosmic contrasts. Captured in the telescopic frame the colorful complex of dust, gas, and stars spans about 3 degrees on the sky along the edge of the Perseus molecular cloud some 1000 light-years away. Surrounded by a bluish halo of dust reflected starlight, omicron Persei itself is just left of center. Immediately below it lies the intriguing young star cluster IC 348 recently explored by the James Webb Space Telescope. In silhouette against the diffuse reddish glow of hydrogen gas, dark and obscuring interstellar dust cloud Barnard 3 is at upper right. Of course the cosmic dust also tends to hide newly formed stars and young stellar objects or protostars from prying optical telescopes. At the Perseus molecular cloud's estimated distance, this field of view would span about 50 light-years.

Astronomy Picture of the Day 🪐@apod.shinyakato.dev · 2y ago

Neptune at Night - ©Voyager - Pic - HD Pic - About Astronomy Picture Of the Day #astrophotos Maintained by @shinyakato.dev 🔭 READ MORE 🔭

Ice giant Neptune is faint in Earth's night sky. Some 30 times farther from the Sun than our fair planet, telescopes are needed to catch a glimpse of the dim and distant world. This dramatic view of Neptune's night just isn't possible for telescopes in the vicinity of planet Earth though. Peering out from the inner Solar System they can only bring Neptune's day side into view. In fact this night side image with Neptune's slender crescent next to the crescent of its large moon Triton was captured by Voyager 2. Launched from planet Earth in 1977 the Voyager 2 spacecraft made a close fly by of the Solar System's outermost planet in 1989, looking back on Neptune as the robotic spacecraft continued its voyage to interstellar space.

Astronomy Picture of the Day 🪐@apod.shinyakato.dev · 2y ago

Barred Spiral Galaxy NGC 1365 from Webb - Pic - HD Pic - About Astronomy Picture Of the Day #astrophotos Maintained by @shinyakato.dev 🔭 READ MORE 🔭