The Egg Nebula, so-named for its yolk (the star) surrounded by egg white (clouds of dust and gas), is extraordinarily dynamic, with twin beams of light punching through a series of rippling arcs.
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Stefanie Waldek,
Space.com,
11 Feb. 2026
After closing a section of I-94 in both directions on Friday night, crews planning to set beams for the new bridge scrapped the operation the next morning and had the interstate reopened by about noon on Saturday, more than 24 hours ahead of schedule.
The Seahawks called tails, and the coin landed on heads.
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February 9,
CBS News,
9 Feb. 2026
Each year, millions of dog lovers tune in to the Puppy Bowl as a way to pregame the actual Super Bowl taking place that same Sunday, played by human athletes without tails.
He has been vilified for his notorious drawings of oversized women with ample rumps and thick, powerful legs, definitely objectified and more or less turned into meat-at-the-ready.
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David Zane Mairowitz,
Rolling Stone,
22 Dec. 2025
The mind thrills to imagine a genderless prophet among the brocades and buckskin breeches of Revolutionary America, weirding out the normies, sticking a flower in the barrel of a musket, and goading the new nation to let its hair down—literally.
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Dan Piepenbring,
Harpers Magazine,
30 Dec. 2025
That was Wilson, the genial leather-breeches maker, shoving a soldier to his knees.
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