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The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, purchased with funds provided by Eugenio López and the Jumex Fund for Contemporary Latin American Art.
Photo: John Kennard
Streaks of light and bright arcs betray the presence of a vast gravitational lens in this image from the NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope. A galaxy cluster in the foreground has magnified distant galaxies, warping their shapes and creating the bright smears of light spread throughout this image. This effect, referred to by astronomers as gravitational lensing, occurs when a massive celestial object such as a galaxy cluster causes a sufficient curvature of spacetime for light to be visibly bent around it, as if by a gargantuan lens.
One of the consequential effects of gravitational lensing is that it can magnify distant astronomical objects, letting astronomers study objects that would otherwise be too faint or far away. This useful quirk of gravitational lensing has also been used to reveal some of the most distant galaxies humanity has ever encountered. The long, bright, and distorted arc spreading out near the core is one such example. A distant galaxy known as the Cosmic Seahorse, its brightness is greatly magnified by the gravitational lens, which has enabled astronomers to study star formation there.
This image was captured by NIRCam, Webb’s primary near-infrared camera, and contains the lensing galaxy cluster SDSS J1226+2149. It lies at a distance of around 6.3 billion light-years from Earth, in the constellation Coma Berenices. By combining Webb’s sensitivity with the magnifying effect of gravitational lensing, astronomers were able to use this gravitational lens to explore the earliest stages of star formation in distant galaxies. To do so, they relied on earlier studies by the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope, which provided the ‘prescription’ for this gravitational lens.
This image shows only one observation from a programme designed to probe star formation in distant galaxies. As well as revealing how quickly stars form and characterising the environments in these galaxies that gave rise to new stars, these observations will demonstrate the capabilities of Webb and provide richly detailed datasets to the astronomical community. Astronomers expect Webb’s crystal-clear vision and cutting-edge instruments to provide new insights into star formation in distant, gravitationally lensed galaxies.
[Image description: Many small galaxies are scattered on a black background: mainly, white, oval-shaped and red, spiral galaxies. To the lower right is a galaxy cluster, with a very large and bright elliptical galaxy at its centre. Thin, reddish, stretched-out arcs surround it. One arc is thick and much brighter. Another red galaxy is large and warped, just next to the cluster core.]
Credits: ESA/Webb, NASA & CSA, J. Rigby
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Not everyday you see a shot of Mt. Hood not from Trillium Lake. Haha!
Getting to this area is quite an adventure in itself. I haven't really seen landscape photographs of Mt. Hood from here so I didn't really know what to expect.
I did however have a milky way shot envisioned here. But a lot of times your plans or ideas never really happen when you want them to. The clouds were glued to the top of the mountain from sunset and throughout he night. So my milky way shot was a bust.
Although after the light skunked out during sunset and clouds blocking the milky way, the sunrise was something else. The morning light was lighting up the mountain in a bright red orange. The light probably only lasted about 2-3 minutes and I don't have a composition that I like when the light was at it's best. I still didn't walk away from this location with nothing.
The gap in the clouds offered me with one more chance to find another composition with some good light. I stumbled into this dead forest and found a nice natural frame that these trees made forming a window around Mt. Hood and the early morning light.
Mt. Hood National Forest, Oregon
August 2020
A massive galaxy cluster in the constellation Cetus dominates the centre of this image from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope. This image is populated with a serene collection of elliptical and spiral galaxies, but galaxies surrounding the central cluster — which is named SPT-CL J0019-2026 — appear stretched into bright arcs, as if distorted by a gargantuan magnifying glass. This cosmic contortion is called gravitational lensing, and it occurs when a massive object like a galaxy cluster has a sufficiently powerful gravitational field to distort and magnify the light from background objects. Gravitational lenses magnify light from objects that would usually be too distant and faint to observe, and so these lenses can extend Hubble’s view even deeper into the Universe.
This observation is part of an ongoing project to fill short gaps in Hubble’s observing schedule by systematically exploring the most massive galaxy clusters in the distant Universe, in the hopes of identifying promising targets for further study with both Hubble and the NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope. This particular galaxy cluster lies at a vast distance of 4.6 billion light years from Earth.
Each year, the Space Telescope Science Institute is inundated with observing proposals for Hubble, in which astronomers suggest targets for observation. Even after selecting only the very best proposals, scheduling observations of all of Hubble’s targets for a year is a formidable task. There is sometimes a small fraction of observing time left unused in Hubble’s schedule, so in its ‘spare time’ the telescope has a collection of objects to explore — including the lensing galaxy cluster shown in this image.
[Image description: A cluster of large galaxies, surrounded by various stars and smaller galaxies on a dark background. The central cluster is mostly made of bright elliptical galaxies that are surrounded by a warm glow. Nearby the cluster is the stretched, distorted arc of a galaxy, gravitationally lensed by the cluster.]
Credits: ESA/Hubble & NASA, H. Ebeling; CC BY 4.0
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Antiparos is a very famous and well known place to have a fantastic time in summer, but very few people know that it's one of the "darkest" places in Greece, providing an amazing clear view to the night sky.
Light pollution is at minimun at places like Agios Georgios, the place that this photo had be taken.
Here the night sky viewer can see with his naked eye the Milky Way and of course infinite numbers of stars.
Christophe Anagnostopoulos
This is a photo of a mud puddle and gravel that has been mirrored and copied twice to create a cosmic mandala image with four symmetrical quadrants.
"You ignite the stars and the bright lights
I feel our universe collide
You’re the pulse that awakens me
every part of the darkness
Is filled with your heaven
a miracle that I can’t believe
When you put your arms around me
I feel my world start to breathe
You’re the breathe that I need
I can’t walk away
but I can’t explain
force’s in my veins
you’re cosmic"
DAPPA/ Wrath Tattoo & Sun Dance.
Taken at the Cosmic Titans: Art, Science And The Quantum Universe exhibition at Lakeside Arts in Nottingham. The artist is Conrad Shawcross RA.
Cosmic Voyage
Interplanetary Travel
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Camera: Canon EOS Kiss X7i
Photograph by Yusuf Alioglu
Location: Outer space (space)
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"COSMIC TREE" City Rock Bluff, Arkansas
I took notice to this tree that stands near the edge of City Rock Bluff while the stars began to come out. Standing there with its branches beneath the cosmos It reminded me of the Yggdrasil tree from Norse Mythology. Similar trees are found throughout cultures in many religions and mythologies. Known as the cosmic tree, world tree, tree of life, and so on. It serves as a connection between three planes (The heavens, the underworld and our terrestrial world). Its branches reaching for and supporting the heavens, while the trunk meets the earth, and roots grip and dig deep in the soil below.
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I try to discover a
little something to
make me sweeter
Oh baby
refrain from breaking my heart.
I'm so in love with you
I'll be forever blue
That you gimme no
reason why you make me
work so hard.
That you gimme no
that you gimme no
That you gimme no
that you gimme no soul.
I hear you calling
oh baby
please
give a little respect to me.
I wasn't quite sure what to do today so i just grabbed my white background sheet and tied the ends to my two light stands and let the natural light shine through the window with a little extra bulb light behind and in front of me. This was the end result, i quite liked the natural unprocessed look but i felt like doing another space shot so i actually did two different final versions! Will upload another time, im getting ready to go out, my days changed for this weekend so i will be back sunday.. Anyway rabbiting on now, gonna go!
Have a wicked valentines day guys and ill get to your streams as soon as i get some spare time!
Cosmic Campground is an international dark sky sanctuary located in the Gila National Forest in New Mexico
Cosmic Lavender || Cotswold Lavender, Snowshill, Worcestershire, England
Ok, so I've been a little creative with this one and got down amongst the bees for this not so 'classic' lavender row composition. It's at times like this where you wish your lens was a little wider and the D810 had an articulating screen.... 14mm would have been perfect. This one really pushed the limits of my skills. Anyways, I hope you enjoy!
Nikon D810
AF-S NIKKOR 18-35mm f/3.5-4.5G ED
iOptron Skytracker
FLM Tripod