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Explanation: For billions of years, massive stars in our Milky Way Galaxy have lived spectacular lives. Collapsing from vast cosmic clouds, their nuclear furnaces ignite and create heavy elements in their cores. After a few million years, the enriched material is blasted back into interstellar space where star formation begins anew. The expanding debris cloud known as Cassiopeia A is an example of this final phase of the stellar life cycle. Light from the explosion which created this supernova remnant was probably first seen in planet Earth's sky just over 300 years ago, although it took that light more than 10,000 years to reach us. In this gorgeous Hubble Space Telescope image of cooling filaments and knots in the Cas A remnant, light from specific elements has been color coded to help astronomers understand the recycling of our galaxy's star stuff. For instance, red regions are dominated by emission from sulfur atoms while blue shades correspond to oxygen. The area shown is about 10 light-years across.

Welcome back to day three of the con! Those donations keep coming in, we've cleared our £3000 goal in just the first two days, but we can keep that climbing! Head over to our Tiltify page to donate.
Another full day over on Picarto, as well as the Discord and Second Life venues. Hydrate, thrive, join us for some queer villain fun. Full schedule and info are available on our site and in the DVS5 exclusive conbook.

Events

On our Convention track today, our first and only panel over here is a live read of Greysmoke Rising followed it up with a Q&A section by story author and GOH, Mabel Greysmoke herself (@MabelGreysmoke) and backed up by the talents of Syn (@Syntax-Takes) and Vixie (@VisorVixens). It begins at 7:30p ET.

Our Art track today features a pair of art streams from community artists Roxie (@RoxannaRachnid) at 1p ET and Bishop (@BishopArrow) starting at 5p ET.

For the Interest track, we're starting out with Villainy In the Bedroom at 1p ET, featuring Inumo (dragon.style/@Inumo), Princess Grace (princess.software) and Gerrark (TheSexyGerrark) discussing, well, bringing villainy into the bedroom. After that, at 2p ET we'll have the Monsterfucker Book Club (@Syntax-Takes , @VisorVixens, @Lexithecow, @RunaFjord, @lukewarmdeer and @MabelGreysmoke) presenting Slash or Pass; FMK with all manner of beasties from horror and folklore. Lastly, starting at 8p ET we have Gender-Affirming Care: An Overview with Dr. MooCow (feel_doc), a trans doctor specializing in gender-affirming care, to provide basic info about finding care, informed consent and more, also featuring a Q&A.

On the Gaming track, we have Sphrog (sizeboxdev) returning to show off size-themed sandbox game Sizebox, including a feature overview, a live "Monster Factory"-style character customization and Q&A, that's all starting at 3p ET. Then at 4p ET, Draekos (draekos.art) is back to host their annual game of Thirsty Sword Lesbians, this year featuring players D. Egg (@DistressedEgg), Princess Grace, Kae (kae_meows) and CorruptiveSpirit (corruptvspirit) as Murdermaids out to (re)steal the Kaiser's Emerald.

Music today brings us the Experimental DJ Set from N@ali3 (Chopin42) at 2:30p ET, the Small Act Set featuring Yana (VillainousGoo, going-nowhere), June September (juneseptember) and Amelia Bones (packtheharborclub) at 4p ET, then chilling out with an Ambient DJ Set from TailStrike (tailstriketaur) at 5p ET, and finally Maryalee's (MaryaleeScarlet) Genre-fluid DJ Set at 5:30p ET.

Finally, our *Discord-exclusive events include a playlist of villainous music videos curated by Nero (@itsnero) and hosted by Roxie (@RoxannaRachnid) starting at 3:30p ET, and then later a showing of Little Shop of Horrors (the 1986 one) hosted by N@ali3 at 7:30p ET.

See ya on the con floor!