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J.L.

@orbiting_wombat

She/her, 48. Voracious reader and sometimes writer. Occasional artist. Also a Nerdfighter and proud geek. Fervent 🏳️‍🌈 ally.

 United States
Joined March 2020
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I am ashamed of my country. And angry.
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So cool! Black holes are cool, y’all.
Jwst Feed (@WebbFeed) profile pictureJwst Feed@WebbFeed19 Feb 2025
This is the actual supermassive black hole at the center of our galaxy (Saggitrarius A*), observed by JWST (NIRCam) for over 9 hours. The flickers you see are solar flares on a mind-boggling scale, bright enough to shine across 26,000 light-years of space. webbtelescope.org/contents/n…
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Baby solar system in progress! A fantastic image from JWST of a protostar and its burgeoning planetary disk.
Jwst Feed (@WebbFeed) profile pictureJwst Feed@WebbFeed4 Feb 2025
New JWST image of protostar HH 30, with legend.
A close-in image of protoplanetary disc HH 30. Parts of the image are labelled “Jet” (above and below the disc), “Conical Outflow”, “Possible Spiral”, “Dark Lane”, “Disk”, and “Tail”. A scale marker in the bottom-left is labelled “300 au”; this is a little wider than the disc itself, but less wide than the conical outflows above and below the disc.

ALT A close-in image of protoplanetary disc HH 30. Parts of the image are labelled “Jet” (above and below the disc), “Conical Outflow”, “Possible Spiral”, “Dark Lane”, “Disk”, and “Tail”. A scale marker in the bottom-left is labelled “300 au”; this is a little wider than the disc itself, but less wide than the conical outflows above and below the disc.

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Lots of snow today! Very pretty. ❤️
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Title: The Book Unread To all of my writing friends - you guys keep me sane. Keep reading, y’all.
Art by JL, drawn in Procreate. 2025. DH&J 010

ALT Art by JL, drawn in Procreate. 2025. DH&J 010

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You know it’s time to clean off the iPad when you’re trying to erase marks on a drawing in your graphics program and then realize it’s a fingerprint.
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Happy New Year, all! 🎉🎉
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An absolutely fantastic image of Saturn and its rings. The rings are made largely of ice and dust, and one of the rings -the E ring- is the bluest object in our the solar system.
landru79 Jacint Roger (@landru79) profile picturelandru79 Jacint Roger@landru7931 Dec 2024
#CASSINI-HUYGENS MISSION Target #Saturn Start Time (YMDhms): 2014-08-23 Distance to Surface (Min) (km): 1847990.868 Narrow Angle MT3 MT2 Clear UV3 filters opus.pds-rings.seti.org/opus… NASA/JPL/j. Roger
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If you’re looking for some excellent flash fiction with an apocalyptic theme in the new year, might I recommend Bunker Squirrel Magazine? First issue comes out Jan 1, 2025. I’m also in it, which is SO FRIGGIN’ COOL! 🤩 BunkerSquirrel.com
Tori- 5⭐️Author/Editor of Bunker Squirrel Magazine (@TCWestminster) profile pictureTori- 5⭐️Author/Editor of Bunker Squirrel Magazine@TCWestminster25 Dec 2024
Merry Christmas from Bunker Squirrel Magazine! Remember to top off your holiday plans by heading to BunkerSquirrel.com to read the Jan 1 edition of #FlashFiction
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DH&J 006: Would You Eat a Moon Sandwich? (w/Emma Blackery) Pickles. That is all. @NerdfArters @dearhankandjohn @emmablackery #Nerdfighteria
2024. Drawn by JL in Procreate. Quote from the awesome Emma.

ALT 2024. Drawn by JL in Procreate. Quote from the awesome Emma.

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Jwst Feed (@WebbFeed) profile pictureJwst Feed@WebbFeed9 Dec 2024
The next official JWST release will be of a high resolution image of The Firefly Sparkle galaxy: the earliest stages of the assembly of a Milky Way-type galaxy in a 600 Myr old universe.
The Firefly Sparkle is a redshift zs⁢p⁢e⁢c = 8.304 ± 0.001 gravitationally magnified arc lensed by the MACS J1423.8+2404 cluster. Left: Full field with the three objects of interest - Firefly Sparkle (center), Firefly-Best Friend (FF-BF; bottom left), and Firefly-New Best Friend (FF-NBF; bottom right) - shown in boxes and circles. The contours show the lines of lensing magnifications (μ= 15, 20, 30, and 40). Top right: zoom in on the Firefly Sparkle with the clusters labelled. Bottom right: source plane reconstruction of the Firefly Sparkle with the position of neighbor FF-BF shown in red circle.

ALT The Firefly Sparkle is a redshift zs⁢p⁢e⁢c = 8.304 ± 0.001 gravitationally magnified arc lensed by the MACS J1423.8+2404 cluster. Left: Full field with the three objects of interest - Firefly Sparkle (center), Firefly-Best Friend (FF-BF; bottom left), and Firefly-New Best Friend (FF-NBF; bottom right) - shown in boxes and circles. The contours show the lines of lensing magnifications (μ= 15, 20, 30, and 40). Top right: zoom in on the Firefly Sparkle with the clusters labelled. Bottom right: source plane reconstruction of the Firefly Sparkle with the position of neighbor FF-BF shown in red circle.

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Just a little tribute. 🫡 Title: Ghosts on Mars @NASAPersevere @dearhankandjohn #Nerdfighteria #NerdfArters
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Got my new Rock Box from @SciShow - it’s amber this month! So pretty. Like holding little drops of sunlight.
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40. Not too shabby.
Lee Hall (@lhallwriter) profile pictureLee Hall
@lhallwriter25 Nov 2024
How many have you read? Me: 7...
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Feeling creative, so I did a random drawing in Procreate (digital art program). Title: What Lies Beyond #random_art #idontevenknow
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NerdfArters October Day 31 - Confetti Poppers Well, here we are at the end of the month. Here’s to all the artists who made NerdfArters October so incredibly special. 💕 @NerdfArters #NerdfArters #Nerdfighteria
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I am the dorkiest angler fish that ever angled, but I’m ok with that. Happy Halloween, folks! 🎃
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Tetris, part deux: Realized I forgot the ‘a’ in between it’s and catastrophe. Argh! Anyway, added some stuff too. @NerdfArters #NerdfArters #Nerdfighteria
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J.L. (@orbiting_wombat) profile pictureJ.L.@orbiting_wombat31 Oct 2024
NerdfArters October Day 30 - Tetris I actually drew this as one of a pair. The first was drawn for a previous prompt. (See Rubik’s Cube below.) @NerdfArters #NerdfArters #Nerdfighters
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NerdfArters October Day 30 - Tetris I actually drew this as one of a pair. The first was drawn for a previous prompt. (See Rubik’s Cube below.) @NerdfArters #NerdfArters #Nerdfighters
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Rubik’s Cube:
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NerdfArters October Day 29 - Obscure Green Book Quote From The Anthropocene Reviewed- @NerdfArters #NerdfArters #Nerdfighteria
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Oops - forgot to add the potato children. 😝
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