Voting officials fear DHS may actually be a threat to elections this year
https://www.npr.org/2026/06/16/nx-s1-5702491/trump-voting-threat-midterm-election-dhs?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

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Using data from NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory, astronomers may have found a supernova remnant near the supermassive black hole at the center of the Milky Way galaxy.

The central region of the Milky Way galaxy is an exotic region crammed with massive stars, long threads of magnetic fields and dense clouds of gas orbiting rapidly around the Galactic Center.

The supernova, 26,000 ly away, is expanding at ~3.2 million km/h and is at least ~1,700 years old.

https://chandra.si.edu/photo/2026/sgrc/
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There is a fully visible insect in this picture.

I swear.

See alt-text for the spoiler.

#insects

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