Protip:
To make your day more dramatic, post a random news story with the title, “It begins.“
@astronomy didn't post today since today… is a YouTube Video. Posting for it today…
M1: The Expanding Crab Nebula
Are your eyes good enough to see the Crab Nebula expand? The Crab Nebula is cataloged as M1, the first on Charles Messier's famous list of things which are not comets. In fact, the Crab is now known to be a supernova remnant, an expanding cloud of debris from the explosion of a massive star. The violent birth of the Crab was witnessed by astronomers in the year 1054. Roughly 10 light-years across today, the nebula is still expanding at a rate of over 1,000 kilometers per second. Over the past decade, its expansion has been documented in this stunning time-lapse movie. In each year from 2008 to 2022, an image was produced with the same telescope and camera from a remote observatory in Austria. The sharp, processed frames even reveal the dynamic energetic emission surrounding the rapidly spinning pulsar at the center. The Crab Nebula lies about 6,500 light-years away toward the constellation of the Bull (Taurus).
go check it out now! :)
might as well use wasteof to promote music!! my latest song (that’s been in the making for quite some time now) is finally out!! https://scratch.mit.edu/projects/778571845/ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s8AfeD3E8nA
if any of you docker nerds wants to use my discord-aternos bot without building it yourself, you can get it from dockerhub: https://hub.docker.com/r/radeeyate/discord-aternos
update:
you can now start your comment with
!ignore!if you want the bot to ignore it.it’ll now tell you if it violates the safety policy
generated images should be a little bit more accurate now that I tweaked a thing
yeah.. so that new bot(s)
I made a new bot. introducing… @dall-e
write any prompt on the wall, and 10-ish seconds later… you get an image! Please keep in mind that I don't have infinite money nor enough resources to run Dall-E on my hardware so keep in mind that my OpenAI account has a limited amount of images it can generate 
(and yes, another bot soon!)
P.S. - it had been tested more than once, I just wanted to clean up the wall.
yeah.. so that new bot(s)
I made a new bot. introducing… @dall-e
write any prompt on the wall, and 10-ish seconds later… you get an image! Please keep in mind that I don't have infinite money nor enough resources to run Dall-E on my hardware so keep in mind that my OpenAI account has a limited amount of images it can generate
(and yes, another bot soon!)
P.S. - it had been tested more than once, I just wanted to clean up the wall.
hold up. a little bit ago (I think) I crashed prod with an image, and now beta takes 20 years to respond?
Orion and the Running Man
Few cosmic vistas excite the imagination like The Great Nebula in Orion. Visible as a faint celestial smudge to the naked-eye, the nearest large star-forming region sprawls across this sharp telescopic image, recorded on a cold January night in dark skies from West Virginia, planet Earth. Also known as M42, the Orion Nebula's glowing gas surrounds hot, young stars. About 40 light-years across, it lies at the edge of an immense interstellar molecular cloud only 1,500 light-years away within the same spiral arm of our Milky Way galaxy as the Sun. Along with dusty bluish reflection nebula NGC 1977 and friends near the top of the frame, the eye-catching nebulae represent only a small fraction of our galactic neighborhood's wealth of star-forming material. Within the well-studied stellar nursery, astronomers have also identified what appear to be numerous infant solar systems.
