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AVC Assistant Secretary Mallory Stewart (second from left) tours the Pueblo Chemical Agent-Destruction Pilot Plant, a chemical weapons destruction facility in Colorado, July 27, 2022. Photo courtesy of the Department of Defense

$At the center of the image is a horizontal orange cloud known as Herbig-Haro 46/47 that is uneven with rounded ends, and tilted from bottom left to top right. In the middle of this cloud is a yellow-white blob with 8 reddish pink diffraction spikes piercing through it. The left lobe of the cloud is thicker. Just off the edge is a tiny red arc that curves in the opposite direction. The right lobe is thinner, and ends in a smaller orange semi-circle that has a faint purple outline. Just off the edge of this lobe is a slightly smaller orange sponge-like blob. A delicate, semi-transparent blue cloud known as a nebula drifts toward the top of the image and peters out toward the left of the frame. Toward the right and bottom, the nebula ends in a soft ridge set off in a translucent orange. The background is filled with stars and galaxies. Two foreground stars with blue diffraction spikes, seen in the bottom right corner, are especially prominent.$

The Final Frontier

Instrumental Support

Director General of the Foreign Service and Director of Global Talent Marcia S. Bernicat (center) stands with Foreign Service National of the year award...

Improving Communication

Western Passport Center employees gather to celebrate Cultivate DEIA during Consular Leadership Day, Oct. 19, 2022. Photo by Jamie Lewallen By Topher Taylor, Amy Simms,...

Technological Journey

By Todd C.E. Cheng and Lisa Kurtz On receiving his first telegram in the early 1860s, British Prime Minister Henry John Temple, Viscount Palmerston, is...

Performance Management

Bureau of Global Talent Management leaders discuss important matters with Marcia S. Bernicat, director general of the Foreign Service and director of global talent. From left: Michael B. Phillips, Nina Maria Fite, Bernicat, Philippe A. Lussier, and Jeanne M. Juliao, Nov. 15. Photo by Isaac Pacheco

Bureau of Global Talent Management leaders meet with Marcia S. Bernicat, director general of the Foreign Service and director of global talent, Nov. 15....

Environmental Partnership

From left: U.S. Special Presidential Envoy for Climate John Kerry, British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak, President Emmanuel Macron of France, President of the European Commision Ursula von der Layen, South African President Cyril Ramaphosa, and German Chancellor Olaf Scholf meet on the sidelines of the 2022 United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP27) events, Nov. 7, 2022. Photo courtesy of U.S. Mission Egypt

From left: U.S. Special Presidential Envoy for Climate John Kerry, British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak, President of France Emmanuel Macron, President of the European...

Interagency Partnership

Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken meets with military advisors detailed to the Department of State, May 31. Photo by Freddie Everett By Commander Andrew...

Hometown Diplomats

By Maura M. Pfeifer When Mia ter Haar spoke to ninth graders at Holmes Junior High, in Davis, Calif., she had hoped to give back...

The Human Dimension

Ambassador Michael G. Kozak represents the United States of America during the opening session of the Warsaw Human Dimension Conference in Warsaw, Sept. 26....

Intercountry Adoption

By Marisa Light and Tim Eydelnant Thousands of U.S. citizens were caught up in Russia’s full-scale, unprovoked invasion of Ukraine that began Feb. 24. Among...

Triumph over Terror

Then-Ambassador Donald Blome (right) and Prime Minister Hichem Mechichi of Tunisia (left) rename the street in front of Embassy Tunisia, March 6, 2021, in...

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