Dusty

Dusty Deevers is a fundamentalist preacher. He’s also a state senator. And he insists he doesn’t see “any firewalls” between his two roles — as he crusades to outlaw porn, end what he decries as the “abortion holocaust,” and abolish no-fault divorce in Oklahoma. He argues that the sole purpose of government is to “promote what is good in accordance with the will of God.” Elected in a special election in December, Deevers represents the town of Elgin, in Oklahoma’s rural southwest, where he grew up and serves as the…

There is enough dust lingering in the bowels of my old, childhood desktop tower to make my roommate sneeze and cough while sitting on the couch 10 feet behind me. It’s been a long time since I dared crack the shell on my ancient PC, a decade and a half since I first put it together. Few products of my childhood years bring me nostalgia, but I turned 30 this past month, and while time doesn’t necessarily bring wisdom it does breed sentimentality.Age also brings introspection, and looking inside the computer of my youth,…

A team of astronomers has proposed peering into the inconspicuous region between host stars and their soot lines to find habitable worlds beyond our solar system.First Full-Color Images From Webb Space TelescopeThere are few known habitable worlds—planets that reside in the so-called Goldilocks Zone of their star systems—compared to the number of exoplanets known to science. But there may be as many as 300 million habitable worlds in our galaxy alone, according to the SETI Institute.Habitable worlds are of importance not…

Spanish mountain bike specialist Mondraker has announced its first gravel model. The carbon-framed Dusty has been designed to add an "extra bit of fun" to long-distance and technical-terrain riding courtesy of a hub motor and 180-km battery.Gravel bikes are versatile multi-terrain beasts, serving as commuters, CX racers and off-road adventurers. After watching the space grow over recent years, Mondraker decided to add even more flexibility to the typical recipe for its entry into the gravel bike market."We wanted to go…

Today's NASA Astronomy Picture of the Day took a chilling snap of the well-known 7 Dusty Sisters. It is also called the Pleiades star cluster, known for its iconic blue stars. However, the image is in infrared light where the surrounding dust outshines the stars. NASA has revealed that the featured image spans around 20 light-years at the distance of the Pleiades, which lies about 450 light-years distant from the constellation of the Bull (Taurus).While sharing the image, NASA explained that “Here three infrared colours…

NGC 346, shown here in this image from NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope Near-Infrared Camera (NIRCam), is a dynamic star cluster that lies within a nebula 200,000 light years away. Webb reveals the presence of many more building blocks than previously expected, not only for stars, but also planets, in the form of clouds packed with dust and hydrogen.Credit: Science: NASA, ESA, CSA, Olivia C. Jones (UK ATC), Guido De Marchi (ESTEC), Margaret Meixner (USRA), Image Processing: Alyssa Pagan (STScI), Nolan Habel (USRA), Laura…

These two images are of the dusty debris disk around AU Mic, a red dwarf star located 32 light-years away in the southern constellation Microscopium. The team used Webb’s Near-Infrared Camera (NIRCam) to study AU Mic. NIRCam’s coronagraph, which blocked the intense light of the central star, allowed the team to study the region very close to the star. The location of the star, which is masked out, is marked by a white, graphical representation at the center of each image. The region blocked by the coronagraph is shown by…

NGC 346, one of the most dynamic star-forming regions in nearby galaxies, is full of mystery. Now, it is less mysterious with new findings from the NASA James Webb Space Telescope. NGC 346, one of the most dynamic star-forming regions in nearby galaxies, is full of mystery. Now, it is less mysterious with new findings from NASA's James Webb Space Telescope. NCG 346 is located in the Small Magellanic Cloud (SMC), a dwarf galaxy close to our Milky Way. The SMC contains lower concentrations of elements heavier than…

NASA's James Webb Telescope has snapped an image of dusty disk around the red dwarf star that was never viewed before. Know more details. NASA's most expensive telescope, the James Webb Space Telescope has again amazed scientists by snapping till-now unseen images of the deep cosmos. Here again, the Webb Telescope has clicked the inner workings of a dusty disk surrounding a nearby red dwarf star. NASA says that these are the very first observations ever. The newly shared image by Webb Telescope provides clues to the…

“Nicolas Cage's first Western doesn't blaze any new trails, but it does boast fine performances from its lead and co-star Ryan Kiera Armstrong.” Pros Nicolas Cage elevates the film Some surprisingly emotional moments Standout performance from Ryan Kiera Armstrong Cons Predictable, formulaic story Forgettable villains…