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The cataclysmic 1991 eruption of Mount Pinatubo in the Philippines was the second largest volcanic eruption of the twentieth century, and by far the largest eruption to affect a densely populated area. It occurred on June 15, 1991. I was part of the evacuation and relief effort. It was the last action of any significance I would perform in the US Navy.
The eruption produced high-speed avalanches of hot ash and gas, giant mudflows, and a cloud of volcanic ash hundreds of miles across that ushered in climate change across the globe. The resulting damage to US assets in the Philippines was pivotal in the decision to close the massive strategic US military bases there. Many US servicemen lost friends and family in the ordeal never to be heard from again. The impacts of the eruption continue to this day.
My adorable Elf in the night
I searched the book of the cosmos for you
And there you were, my brightest star
A detailed flame of purest joy
That coalesced the heavens in extreme awe
The world, you have at your fingertips
And all the worlds and stars beyond
Tell me what you know of them
Do they shine from your essence
Or glow from the sight of your dramatic beauty
Do they travel the universe to be in unity with you
Do they wait for their cataclysmic, fateful end
So that the shattering pieces that remain of them
May somehow find their way to the cradle of you
How I wonder what miraculous wonders you be store
How you make me weak in the knees to gaze at you
Hanging high up there in the blissful night sky
How do you think the stars befell enviously
They all want to radiate the systems of galaxies
But you will be the one to teach them the way
As they will follow in your lead to perfection
It's when I come out late at night, and I feel all alone
I know you are there, weightless over me
I know because my shortness of breath tells me
As my heart pounds rapid in my chest
And once again, you seduce me into a supernova
Stellar blaze of glory, astral, luminescent sphere of light
From there to here is where you take me
As you have brightened all my ways of life
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Wizard Island is a volcanic cinder cone which forms an island at the west end of Crater Lake in Crater Lake National Park, Oregon. The top of the island reaches 6,933 feet (2,113 m) above sea level, about 755 feet (230 m) above the average surface of the lake.
The cone is capped by a volcanic crater about 500 feet (150 m) wide and 100 feet (30 m) deep. The crater was named the "Witches Cauldron" by William Gladstone Steel in 1885, who also gave Wizard Island its name at the same time.[5] The land area of the island is 315.85 acres (127.82 ha).
Wizard Island was created after Mount Mazama, a large complex volcano, erupted violently approximately 7,700 years ago, forming its caldera which now contains Crater Lake. Following the cataclysmic caldera-forming eruption, which left a hole about 4,000 feet (1,200 m) deep where the mountain had once stood, a series of smaller eruptions over the next several hundred years formed several cinder cones on the caldera floor. The highest of these cones, the only one to rise above the current lake level, is Wizard Island, which rises over 2,700 feet (820 m) above the lowest point on the caldera floor and the deepest point in the lake.
Shreds of the colorful supernova remnant DEM L 190 seem to billow across the screen in this image from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope. The delicate sheets and intricate filaments are debris from the cataclysmic death of a massive star that once lived in the Large Magellanic Cloud, a small satellite galaxy of the Milky Way. DEM L 190 – also known as LMC N49 – is the brightest supernova remnant in the Large Magellanic Cloud and lies approximately 160,000 light-years away from Earth in the constellation Dorado.
Image credit: ESA/Hubble & NASA, S. Kulkarni, Y. Chu
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The beauty and intense blue of Crater Lake have awed people for generations. Five miles wide and ringed by cliffs almost 2,000 feet high, the lake rests in the shattered remnants of a volcano called Mount Mazama, which erupted and collapsed into itself 7,700 years ago. Later eruptions formed Wizard Island and other volcanic features, now hidden under the lake. Crater Lake filled with rain and melted snow. At 1.943 feet deep, it's the deepest lake in the United States and one of the deepest in the world.
Mount Mazama began to grow half a million years ago. Humans have lived around the mountain for more than 10,000 years and probably witnessed its cataclysmic eruption. Crater Lake has long played a significant role in the cultures of local American Indian tribes. In 1853 prospectors in search of gold found the lake, and, as word spread, people began visiting from all over the world. William Gladstone Steel first visited in 1885. Largely as a result of his efforts, Crater Lake became a national park on May 22, 1902.
Scientists have investigated Crater Lake for more than a century. They have plumbed its depths, scaled its cliffs, and explored it with sonar, submarines, and scientific instruments. The eruption that collapsed Mount Mazama was the largest in North America for hundreds of thousands of years. The lake that formed in its shattered remnants is one of the purest and most pristine in the world. The environment provides scientists with an opportunity to study the subtle effects of human influence and global forces.
Today, forests and canyons cover the mountain's outer slopes. Snow blankets the landscape for eight or nine months of the year. Wildflowers bloom late and disappear quickly in the harsh pumice soil, thriving only along streams. Ravens, jays, nutcrackers, and ground squirrels search for seeds along the caldera rim. Deer, elk, black bears, marmots, foxes, porcupines, pine martens, and pikas are present but seldom seen. Visitors wonder about the cataclysmic origins of Crater Lake and marvel at its placid beauty.
--from the NPS brochure (yes, I typed all that out :P )
More great info can be found at Wikipedia.
Earth can withstand significant volcanic eruptions, tectonic cataclysms and ice ages.
But this canny, intelligent, prolific and extremely self centred human creature has proved himself capable of more destruction of life than Mother Nature herself
(Michael Fischer)
(Taken at Eclectica)
Terre de deserts et de beauté où la vie parait insensée.Sensation de sentir naître notre planète ou de découvrir la renaissance de la vie après un cataclysme...Etranges impressions
Sometimes I rolled a Night Elf, sometimes I rolled a Draenei.
Banking and auctions should be formally recognized as a separate level of Hell, you gotta break the tedium any way you can - not to mention that it's not a bad idea to change now and then the name of the alt you use to one-copper underbid those assholes who spam the auction house with ten pages of one-bronze-bar-offers at a time.
Europe, Greece, South Aegean, Cyclades, Santorini (Thira), Fira, Caldera (cut from T & B)
In a lockdown, most of the travel is alas of the armchair variant. Today it's time for a visit to …..the gorgeous Cyclades. Let’s start with fascinating Santorini.
Shown here is Thira, the capital of the island, perilously perched on the edge of the caldera. Shot from the ferry Blue Star Naxos, while on our way to Naxos. The red tones of the caldera show oxidizing iron.
The island in its current state was formed during a cataclysmic volcanic eruption: In 1630 BC one of the two Thira volcanoes erupted. During the process, the magma chamber of the volcano was totally emptied and the outer skin fractured and caved in - forming a huge hole (the caldera) which was filled by the sea.
The caldera measured about 12 by 7 km and is surrounded by 200 to 300 m high steep cliffs on three sides - they're on display here. The part of the island that was not caved in was covered in a layer of magma and lava of 50 m thick. Directly after the eruption mushroom-shaped clouds of ash formed that rose to a height of 35 km and there's little doubt that there were consequences for the climate. It was the largest volcanic eruption to take place in the last 10.000 year of Earth's history.
The consequences for the people were harsh. The giant tsunami and the ash rain wiped out the Minoan civilization of the island and that of Crete (although there's some discussion about the latter).
The two volcanoes that are still under Thira have remained active through the ages. The one under the caldera formed a number of islets/volcanic cones. The largest one Nea Kameni was formed in the first part of the 18 th century and through a series of eruptions in the second part of the 19 th century and as 'recent' as 1921, 1928, 1939, 1941 and 1950 grew in size. On Nea Kameni are 7 volcanic vents that emit gasses and on Palea Kameni, which was formed before Nea Kameni (no surprises here - palea means old and nea new ) is one vent. By bleeding off pressure, together they reduce the chance of a future eruption. But one never knows.
The underwater volcano north of Oia produced earthquakes and emissions of poisonous gases that killed 70 people in 1649 and 1650. This period is referred to on the island as the 'time of evil'
(By the way: Recent research places the eruption that created the caldera ....21.000 years earlier than 1630 BC. According to this, there was a big eruption in that year, but the caldera was already there when it happened. I don't know if the evidence is conclusive.)
(Sources: various websites, 'Griekse eilanden' - Trotter - Hachette/Lannoo 2007 and 'Santorini - a guide to the most beautiful island in the world'- Tina Zisimou - Mediterraneo Editions 2010)
This is number 23 of the Cyclads 2011 album.
Hi everyone here's my lastest moc , it's actually an post apocalyptic moc . I don't do these often but I wanted to tried something new so here's the result in addition I've get some new pieces which I used in this moc . I've tried to represent an apocalyptic scene after the world is destroyed so at the right I built the rest of an old factory which has rusted over time .
I hope you will like this moc it took me actually 3 days to finish
my youtube : www.youtube.com/watch?v=h88580zPMDM&t
Terre de deserts et de beauté où la vie parait insensée.Sensation de sentir naître notre planète ou de découvrir la renaissance de la vie après un cataclysme...Etranges impressions
Like a witness to a violent death, NASA's Hubble Space Telescope recently gave astronomers an unprecedented, comprehensive view of the first moments of a star's cataclysmic demise. Hubble's data, combined with other observations of the doomed star from space- and ground-based telescopes, may give astronomers an early warning system for other stars on the verge of blowing up.
"We used to talk about supernova work like we were crime scene investigators, where we would show up after the fact and try to figure out what happened to that star," explained Ryan Foley of the University of California, Santa Cruz, the leader of the team that made this discovery. "This is a different situation, because we really know what's going on and we actually see the death in real time."
Telescope Teamwork
The supernova, called SN 2020fqv, is in the interacting Butterfly galaxies, which are located about 60 million light-years away in the constellation Virgo. It was discovered in April 2020 by the Zwicky Transient Facility at the Palomar Observatory in San Diego, California. Astronomers realized that the supernova was simultaneously being observed by the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS), a NASA satellite designed primarily to discover exoplanets, with the ability to detect an assortment of other phenomena. They quickly trained Hubble and a suite of ground-based telescopes on it.
Together, these observatories gave the first holistic view of a star in the very earliest stage of destruction. Hubble probed the material very close to the star, called circumstellar material, mere hours after the explosion. This material was blown off the star in the last year of its life. These observations allowed astronomers to understand what was happening to the star just before it died.
"We rarely get to examine this very close-in circumstellar material since it is only visible for a very short time, and we usually don't start observing a supernova until at least a few days after the explosion," explained Samaporn Tinyanont, lead author on the study's paper published in the Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. "For this supernova, we were able to make ultra-rapid observations with Hubble, giving unprecedented coverage of the region right next to the star that exploded."
Telling the Star's Story
The team looked at Hubble observations of the star going back to the 1990s. TESS provided an image of the system every 30 minutes starting several days before the explosion, through the explosion itself, and continuing for several weeks. Hubble was used again starting only hours after astronomers first detected the explosion. And from studying the circumstellar material with Hubble, the scientists gained an understanding of what was happening around the star in the previous decade. By combining all of this information, the team was able to create a multi-decade look at the star's final years.
"Now we have this whole story about what's happening to the star in the years before it died, through the time of death, and then the aftermath of that," said Foley. "This is really the most detailed view of stars like this in their last moments and how they explode."
The Rosetta Stone of Supernovae
Tinyanont and Foley called SN 2020fqv "the Rosetta Stone of supernovae." The ancient Rosetta Stone, which has the same text inscribed in three different scripts, helped experts learn to read Egyptian hieroglyphs.
In the case of this supernova, the science team used three different methods to determine the mass of the exploding star. These included comparing the properties and the evolution of the supernova with theoretical models; using information from a 1997 archival Hubble image of the star to rule out higher-mass stars; and using observations to directly measure the amount of oxygen in the supernova, which probes the mass of the star. The results are all consistent: around 14 to 15 times the mass of the Sun. Accurately determining the mass of the star that explodes in a supernova is crucial to understanding how massive stars live and die.
"People use the term 'Rosetta Stone' a lot. But this is the first time we've been able to verify the mass with these three different methods for one supernova, and all of them are consistent," said Tinyanont. "Now we can push forward using these different methods and combining them, because there are a lot of other supernovae where we have masses from one method but not another."
An Early Warning System?
In the years before stars explode, they tend to become more active. Some astronomers point to the red supergiant Betelgeuse, which has recently been belching significant amounts of material, and they wonder if this star will soon go supernova. While Foley doubts Betelgeuse will imminently explode, he does think we should take such stellar outbursts seriously.
"This could be a warning system," said Foley. "So if you see a star start to shake around a bit, start acting up, then maybe we should pay more attention and really try to understand what's going on there before it explodes. As we find more and more of these supernovae with this sort of excellent data set, we'll be able to understand better what's happening in the last few years of a star's life."
The Hubble Space Telescope is a project of international cooperation between NASA and ESA (European Space Agency). NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, manages the telescope. The Space Telescope Science Institute (STScI) in Baltimore, Maryland, conducts Hubble science operations. STScI is operated for NASA by the Association of Universities for Research in Astronomy, in Washington, D.C.
For more information: www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/2021/hubble-gives-unpreceden...
A cataclysmic cosmic collision takes center stage in this image taken with the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope. The image features the interacting galaxy pair IC 1623, which lies around 275 million light-years away in the constellation Cetus (the Whale). The two galaxies are in the final stages of merging, and astronomers expect a powerful inflow of gas to ignite a frenzied burst of star formation in the resulting compact starburst galaxy.
This interacting pair of galaxies is a familiar sight; Hubble captured IC 1623 in 2008 using two filters at optical and infrared wavelengths on the Advanced Camera for Surveys. This image incorporates data from Wide Field Camera 3, and combines observations taken in eight filters spanning infrared to ultraviolet wavelengths to reveal the finer details of IC 1623. Future observations of the galaxy pair with the NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope will shed more light on the processes powering extreme star formation in environments such as IC 1623.
Text credit: European Space Agency (ESA)
Image credit: ESA/Hubble & NASA, R. Chandar
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Ces traces monstrueuses d'un séisme ancien sont visibles sur plus de 50 kms sur la route N9 qui relie le Col du Tichka à Ouarzazate. La magnitude d'un tel évènement a dû être colossale.
Commentary.
Ardnamurchan is perhaps the most intriguing, beguiling, fascinating and beautiful peninsula on the British Mainland,
it just so happens to be the most westerly, as well.
Such a serene scene at this shallow bay.
Grazed right up to the fences above the beach
and yet it possesses a wild unfettered magnificence
that suspends belief, an aura of other-worldliness.
Mull and Tiree are on the distant oceanic horizon.
Golden eagles swooping and screeching, above an adjacent hill.
But the making of what we now see was massive, hugely violent and, yes, very other-worldly.
Ben Hiant, on the right, rises in two steps from the sea,
the first 1,000 feet and the second 732 feet or a grand total of 528 metres.
It is a south-flanking remnant of a huge Ardnamurchan volcano possibly over 20,000 feet as suggested by a clear three-mile diameter, collapsed caldera, five miles north-west of here.
Amongst the dips and hollows are rocks like Dolerite, Breccia and Pitchstone.
Lava Cone Sheets and Moine Schists,
with its gleaming, glittering skin-thin layers of Mica, evidence of a fiery and cataclysmic past.
Macro or micro-scale this landscape is complex, and wonderfully compelling.
It is little explored because of its remoteness.
Over 60 miles from Arisaig and over 50 miles from the Corran Ferry on mostly single-track roads, few venture this far at such limited speeds.
But, as with so many areas in Scotland, the price of patience
will be heavily rewarded if we have the “stickability.”
This city was the first permanent Númenorean establishement founded in the year 750 of the Second Age by Crown Prince Aldarion on the estuary of the river Gwathló. From here, Aldarion's 'Guild of Venturers' (with their ship Eämbar as their guildhouse) began harvesting the local timber for ship-building.
250 years later, Lond Daer is a thriving city and the Guild of Venturers is responsible for the largest shipbuilding industry in Middle-Earth. But this success comes at a price: the deforestation of the outlying regions, Enedwaith and Minhiriath, became cataclysmic, angering the native Dunlending population. Now war is imminent!
I'm proud to present the second installment in the #SecondAgeCollab: the Middle-Earth city Lond Daer and its thriving shipbuilding industry.
Be sure to follow all the builders tagged, and check Alclone account to see the next part of the collab coming out on Saturday.
Finally, I would like to give a massive thank you to my generous sponsor, Friend bricks who was so kind to provide me with some of his amazing custom Middle-Earth minifigs which really helped to bring this build to life.
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[More pictures & detailshots will come in a few days]
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Shreds of the luridly coloured supernova remnant DEM L 190 seem to billow across the screen in this image from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope. The delicate sheets and intricate filaments are debris from the cataclysmic death of a massive star that once lived in the Large Magellanic Cloud, a small satellite galaxy of the Milky Way. DEM L 190 — also known as LMC N49 — is the brightest supernova remnant in the Large Magellanic Cloud and lies approximately 160 000 light-years away from Earth in the constellation Dorado.
This striking image was created with data from two different astronomical investigations, using one of Hubble’s retired instruments, the Wide Field Planetary Camera 2 (WFPC2). This instrument has since been replaced by the more powerful Wide Field Camera 3, but during its operational lifetime it contributed to cutting-edge science and produced a series of stunning public outreach images. The first of the two WFPC2 investigations used DEM L 190 as a natural laboratory in which to study the interaction of supernova remnants and the interstellar medium, the tenuous mixture of gas and dust that lies between stars. In the second project, astronomers turned to Hubble to pinpoint the origin of a Soft Gamma-ray Repeater, an enigmatic object lurking in DEM L 190 which repeatedly emits high-energy bursts of gamma rays.
This is not the first image of DEM L 190 to be released to the public — a previous Hubble portrait of this supernova remnant was published in 2003. This new image incorporates additional data and improved image processing techniques, making this spectacular celestial fireworks display even more striking!
Credits: ESA/Hubble & NASA, S. Kulkarni, Y. Chu; CC BY 4.0
Pour mon pote Olivier... Amoureux des "Pointus".
Mais aussi pour les victimes du cataclysme au Japon.
Pour retrouver une sélection de mes photos :
www.flickr.com/groups/1594868@N20/
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Moku o Lo’e in Kāne’ohe Bay is also known as Coconut Island. The bay is in the caldera of the extinct Ko’olau volcano. In a cataclysmic event, the seaward side of the volcano slipped into the Pacific about a million years ago. Coconut Island is currently the home of the Hawaii Institute of Marine Biology.
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Once a forest of living Sitka spruce, these barnacle-encrusted stumps remain as a ghostly reminder of some past cataclysm. One theory suggests an earthquake and tsunami around 2,000 years ago, with recent beach erosion causing the drowned forest to emerge again from the sea. It’s said that this ghost forest is visible only at low tide, which is when I was there. There’s a good-sized stream to ford between the public parking lot and the south side of Proposal Rock, where the forest is found.
HFG1 ( = PK 136+05) et Abell 6 (PK 136+4.1) forment un couple de nébuleuses planétaires unique, très intéressant à imager en filtres à bande étroite.
HFG1 tient son nom de ses trois découvreurs: Heckathorn, Fesen and Gull. Son étoile centrale V664 Cas, de mag. 14.5 est une binaire serrée pré cataclysmique.
Une publication suggère que HFG1 laisse derrière elle une queue de gas émettant dans les longueurs d'onde Ha et S2. Cette queue de 20' au moins s'étend vers le nord ouest et serait agée de 10000 ans environ.
HFG1 elle même présente une structure intéressante, avec un arc de cercle à l'opposé de la queue, c'est à dire dans la direction de déplacement de la nébuleuse, ce qui laisse penser qu'il s'agit d'un front d'onde de choc de matière interagissant avec le milieu interstellaire. On note également trois lobes plus brillant dans la raie OIII et une zone centrale plus faible ou le signal Ha domine.
Abell 6 est un classique exemple de bulle de ce catalogue (type 2b), mais reste assez faible également (mag=15.0), avec une émission OIII plus forte qu'en Ha. Néanmoins sa structure présente des irrégularité avec en particuliers deux fins lobes aux bords est et ouest. Ses dimensions sont de 188x174"
Pour obtenir ce résultat, il a fallu poser presque 37 heures
126 Ha de 10 min
70 O3 de 10 min et
45 poses d'une minutes pour les étoiles sur chaque couche rouge vert et bleu.
Seulement 90% des images ont été retenues, elle cumule donc un peu plus de 33 heures au Total !
Lunette Askar FRA 600
Réducteur 0.79
Focale 420mm à F3.9
Imageur ZWO ASI2600MM Pro
Roue à FiltreZWO 7*36MM
Filtre Baader L, R, V, B ,S2, Ha et O3
Monture EQ6 Pro
Guidescope UltraGuide MKII 60mm ARTESKY
Camera Guidage ASI ZWO 224MC
Sky Quality 19.95
Magnitude CLASS 5 Bortle
SGP SEQUENCE GENERATOR PRO, SIRIL et UWE ASTRO TOOLS
Shot at sunset during the aftermath of a heavy storm, that was slowly drifting past this location. Reminds me of a cataclysm in a sci-fi movie.
Taking off from Flesland airport, Bergen. Pity about the "electronic apparatus" being turned on but I couldn't resist this where it looked as if Bergen was one big cataclysm!
Good news for those who want more rainy Bergen shots - I have retrieved a dozen more shots from my rejects pile for use at a later date :-)
De aspecto caótico, estos filamentos de gases convulsionados y resplandecientes, visibles en el cielo terrestre en dirección de la constelación del Cisne, forman parte de la nebulosa del Velo
Considerada en conjunto, la nebulosa del Velo es el enorme remanente de una supernova es decir, una nube en expansión originada por la muerte explosiva de una estrella masiva.
La luz de la explosión de la supernova original probablemente llegó a la Tierra hace más de 5 000 años. Expulsadas violentamente por el cataclismo, las ondas de choque se propagaron por el medio interestelar barriendo e ionizando toda la materia que encontró a su paso.
Realización:
-Montura: SW EQ6R
-Tubo: APM 107/700-Reductor RIccardi 0.75x
-Auto enfoque: RB Focus V2.3
-Control Energia:RB-Focus Balinor Smart PowerBox V2.0
-Cámara principal: Zwo ASI294MC Pro
-Filtro: Optolong L-Extreme
40 tomas light 300"
tomas de calibración darks y flats
Las inviernas (Guadalajara)
Tiempo exposición: 3,5 horas
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Chaotic in appearance, these filaments of convulsed and glowing gases, visible in the terrestrial sky in the direction of the constellation Cygnus, are part of the Veil Nebula.
Taken together, the Veil Nebula is the enormous remnant of a supernova, that is, an expanding cloud caused by the explosive death of a massive star.
Light from the original supernova explosion probably reached Earth more than 5,000 years ago. Violently ejected by the cataclysm, the shock waves propagated through the interstellar medium, sweeping away and ionizing all matter in their path.
Realization:
-Mount: SW EQ6R
-Tube: APM 107/700-RIccardi Reducer 0.75x
-Auto focus: RB Focus V2.3
-Energy Control: RB-Focus Balinor Smart PowerBox V2.0
-Main camera: Zwo ASI294MC Pro
-Filter: Optolong L-Extreme
40 light sockets 300"
darks and flats calibration sockets
Las inviernas (Guadalajara)
Exposure time: 3.5 hours
To counter superior enemy armour or heavily entrenched resistance, the Coalition relies on the massive firepower that can be provided by any number of heavy assault tanks.
The Ûbârrek Âssoi 57/6 is one of those many heavy assault tanks available to Coalition commanders. To combat the foes of the Coalition the tank mounts a massive KBâ plasma cannon for use against all manner of targets.
Physically massive, the ÛâR 57/6 towers over man and machine alike as it ponderously advances across the battlefield. Few targets can withstand the devastating effects of the ÛâR 57/6s plasma cannon and fewer still live through the engagement.
Unfortunately the ÛâR 57/6s size is its own enemy as it is immediately recognizable from the air and if penetrated the volatile plasma reactor is prone to cataclysmic explosions. This has not deterred Coalition commanders and the ÛâR 57/6 sees service in all manner of warzones, often at the front where the fighting is thickest.
Crowley Lake, CA
A trip to the Crowley Lake columns involves a rough 4-wheel ascent to the trailhead, and then a steep hike down to the columns. However, it is well worth the effort!
Geological History: "The columns were created by cold water percolating down into — and steam rising up out of — hot volcanic ash spewed by a cataclysmic explosion 760,000 years ago."
Well, here we are again - the end of another year! And, as always, what a year it's been, and how quickly it has gone! The only addition to the family was a whippet puppy in Edinburgh - oh yes, and a couple of kittens at the bottom of the garden! We lost our dear little Archie, and we have both had a few health issues that have resulted in an experimental diet - which, touch wood, seems to be doing good things. The greater world has seen some cataclysmic happenings - least said the better perhaps, at this stage! We are hoping that 2017 will bring health, happiness and bucket loads of common sense to the world at large, and special things for our friends and families. Lots of love to you all xxxx
72.1 lb. (32.2kg) Sericho with a 15 x 14” face. Pallasites are the most visually stunning meteorites IMHO.
When the planets of our solar system aggregated from the primordial dust and ice swirling in a disc around the sun, some crazy things happened. We are used to the relatively stable result, 4.6 billion years later, but in the early days, some planetoids collided cataclysmically; others were flung out of our solar system entirely, to the lifeless void of deep space.
These dense iron meteorites contain the molten metal cores of some planetary body that ended in a mighty kaboom. We know it was big because a molten iron core appears when a planetoid is big enough to have enough gravity to fractionate the elements of the periodic table, with the heavier iron-loving elements migrating to the core and a different subset of the periodic table (e.g., Si, Al, Ca, Na, Mg) constituting the outer mantle and crust. We have never drilled to the molten core of Earth, or even deep into our mantle, but these remnants of planets past are representative of what we would expect to find in the Earth’s core and mantle.
Pallasites are an incredible potpourri of shattered mantle in a dollop of molten metal core. They can only form in space where the absence of gravity allows the lighter gemstones to remain scattered throughout the heavy metal matrix (on Earth, they would segregate by density). Those crystal gems are olivine (and perhaps some peridot as we call it on Earth).
If we were to etch the metal with a weak acid (exposing the anisotropic crystalline patterns), we would see something beautiful, an interwoven 3D nest of interlocking shards, a metal crystallization that also could not be made on Earth, but for a different reason: they have to cool very, very slowly, over 10 million years! In the insulating vacuum of space, the motel metal cools slowly as it radiates heat (no conduction or convection).
If this all sounds like a rare event, it is. 2% of meteorites in the Met Bull are irons, and only 0.2% are Pallasites.
When an iron meteorite is forged into a tool or weapon, the extraterrestrial crystal patterns remain, but become stretched and distorted. The patterns usually cannot be fully eliminated by blacksmithing, even through extensive working. When a knife or tool is forged from meteoric iron and then polished, the patterns appear in the surface of the metal. In ancient times before the invention of steel, these iron-nickel alloys were like advanced alien technology, and probably were the origin of folkloric beliefs about magic swords and vorpal blades. Even King Tut was buried with his meteorite dagger.
There is much going on in this Sericho Pallasite — a meteoritic medley. Transluscent olivine gems across the color spectrum. And the metal matrix has large chromite inclusions (grey).
Based on isotope analysis at ETH Zürich, this meteorite spent the last 130-160 million years free floating in space before intersecting Earth's orbit.
A cataclysmic cosmic collision takes centre stage in this Picture of the Week. The image features the interacting galaxy pair IC 1623, which lies around 275 million light-years away in the constellation Cetus (The Whale). The two galaxies are in the final stages of merging, and astronomers expect a powerful inflow of gas to ignite a frenzied burst of star formation in the resulting compact starburst galaxy.
This interacting pair of galaxies is a familiar sight; Hubble captured IC 1623 in 2008 using two filters at optical and infrared wavelengths using the Advanced Camera for Surveys. This new image incorporates new data from Wide Field Camera 3, and combines observations taken in eight filters spanning infrared to ultraviolet wavelengths to reveal the finer details of IC 1623. Future observations of the galaxy pair with the NASA/ESA/CASA James Webb Space Telescope will shed more light on the processes powering extreme star formation in environments such as IC 1623.
Credits: ESA/Hubble & NASA, R. Chandar; CC BY 4.0
Arrivant à Saint-Emilion, l’église la plus imposante qui se détache en ville haute, est la Collégiale.
L'ŒUVRE DE L'APOCALYPSE
L'Apocalypse, installée dans le cloître de la Collégiale de Saint-Emilion, est une oeuvre de l'artiste-peintre François Peltier, réalisée suite à une commande de la Paroisse de Saint-Emilion, des Amis de la Collégiale et du Curé, Monsieur l'Abbé de Rozières.
Oeuvre de 38,5 mètres de long sur 5 mètres de haut, cet ensemble de peintures a été conçu comme un ensemble et non comme une succession de tableaux.
L'Apocalypse est peinte sur différents bois suivant des symboliques réfléchies. On retrouve cinq bois différents : le cèdre du Liban, le chêne, le chataîgner, le tilleul et le peuplier. La technique employée est la peinture à l'huile en glacis.
“Apocalypse” vient du grec “révélation”, exprimant un message porteur d’espérance opposé à l’acception commune du mot qui évoque souvent la fin du monde et les cataclysmes. Le livre de l'Apocalypse est le dernier livre de la Bible, sa conclusion. Elle dévoile le combat du Bien et du Mal qui se termine par le triomphe du Bien, et est révélée par les visions de Saint Jean.
Here's a look at atmospheric horror game Investigator: www.pcgamer.com/investigator-4k-gallery
And another I did for the similarly atmospheric game, 35MM: www.pcgamer.com/35mm-4k-gallery
Yes, their gallery system is less than ideal these days...
Vu, les tensions, les conflits, les guerres et les cataclysmes qui nous agitent en tous les continents, les chats devraient devenir les maitres du Monde.
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"You won't break me
You won't take me
I'll fight you under
Blood red skies" - Judas Priest
Prompts: Glaciers melting in the dead of night And the superstars sucked into the super massive (you set my soul alight) Glaciers melting in the dead of night And the superstars sucked into the super massive (you set my soul).
Song Inspiration:
Muse-Supermassive Black Hole
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About 70% of the Earth's surface is covered with water. If all of the Earth's crust was flattened, with the mountains and ocean floor levelled out to form a perfect sphere, water would cover the entire planet to a depth of 2.5km or 1.5 miles. So, if there was a time in Earth's history when the seabed was higher and the mountains were lower (prior to some sort of cataclysmic event that resulted in massive tectonic shifts, for example), then there is more than enough water on the planet to cause a global flood.
Genesis chapters six to nine recount how God judged mankind's wickedness by just such an event - a catastrophic, worldwide flood. The rainbow serves as a promise that God will never again use a flood to punish a sinful world. But that does not mean that God is no longer angered by the wickedness of mankind and our rejection of Him. So the rainbow is also an important reminder that God judges sin.
It is appointed unto men once to die, but after this the judgment.
(Hebrews 9:27)
I think a lot. Sometimes I think too much. This is the thought I generally have at about 1am when I am wrestling with busy brain syndrome and cannot fall asleep. In fact, I think I have even written about this on here before. Here are a couple of thoughts kicking around in my head at this moment as I try to write this caption:
"In the vein of Richard Feynman, who once asked a physics class what one sentence would they pass on in the event of a cataclysm that contained the most information with the fewest words, what would I say? Or what image of mine would I single out?"
"Is creating art a response to our own knowledge of our mortality?"
"If time is a human construct, how would we deconstruct it and how would that change the way we lived?"
"I wonder what I will have for breakfast tomorrow."
And the list goes on.
This is a very long-winded introduction to me saying that photography is where I try to think the least. I try not to put thought into my images but rather try to put my feelings or emotions into them. Put another way, I try to make images based on what I am feeling rather than what I am thinking. I don't know if this is to give my brain a rest or to give me a rest from my brain. A bit of both I would guess.
For the most part this works really well for me. I have gotten good at disengaging from my thoughts while I am out photographing. Tangentially I have found that I dislike listening to podcasts while I photography, largely because they make me think. Tangentially in a different direction, I don't like listening to music while I photograph either because it affects how I feel, which then affects how I photograph. Nay, for me it is enough to be there in a moment responding to subtle currents within me that I will struggle with later to put a finger on.
In fact, this is where my problems usually arise: when I try to think about my photos after the fact and figure them out. Generally I don't do this too much, but it comes up when I have to explain them to others such as when I need to give a talk or presentation (which coincidentally I have to do on Monday evening). The photos are not products of thought, but rather visual translations of moods or feelings passing through me in a particular place or at some particular time. Thought doesn't typically enter into that equation and therefore makes for an awkward fit I have found when forcibly injected into it later.
Anyhow, even now I am applying more thought to this image than I should, but sometimes I find the thinking "out load" to be an effective means of getting it out of my head.
That and I do like doing the writing just for the practice.
So don't fret if you cannot explain your photos, or if you worry about the perceived lack of thought in them. Some photos are meant to embody a great deal of thought, but not all images. It is ok to make images that cannot be so intellectually described or explained. It is ok to make images on hunches, feelings, intuition, or the like. And it is ok to not understand your own images after you have made them. In fact, I rather enjoy it at times - the mystery of it all.
So here you go. Hopefully nothing I said gets you to thinking too much and keeps you awake tonight.
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"Do you know... the giants? The silver one... and the black one.
"The air itself tore open in a cataclysm over the arid lands and the giants fell through. The foreign lands phased the silver one, but they say the black one was prepared, for they took battle right away. They were not satisfied and they would fight to the end.
"They fought through the night. They were large and powerful, destroying the grounds in the wake of their battle. Their might echoed across Maanos.
"...But every battle comes to an end. The black one won at sunrise, but in an act of mercy forgave his opponent. The titans reconciled... and vanished.
"Their fate unknown, they marked the rise of the ones in the shadows. Unheard of, forgotten, solitary. Entities rose far and wide, each seeking their own ends.
"The mad scavenger of the keep: The Leech.
"Cultists dedicated to the realms of the mind: The Dreamers.
"...And the reclusive warriors of the Sanctum: The Divided.
"But... life was in peril. The dead were restless, the living refused to die, the inanimate wouldn't remain unmoving... And when natural order is not contained, wardens will rise..."
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So, Monarth is turning 7 years old today. He's been my selfmoc that long and honestly it feels special to upgrade him to new heights for the occasion.
He's gone through so many changes over the years. This marks as his V12, disregarding the spin-offs I've made. It is also his third version of his warden form.
I almost completely overhauled him for this version. Some minor elements have stayed, but his aesthetic is brand new. I'm very satisfied with the inventions I made for the build: 5-digit hands, posable mouth with teeth, etc. I'm happy that I managed to give him sturdy joints, which are very often a point where I fail.
Overall, I'm very happy with his build and look, and I truly wish you enjoy him =]
The July 31 appearance of the month's second full moon will be the first such occurrence in the Americas since August 2012. Every month has a full moon, but because the lunar cycle and the calendar year aren't perfectly synched, about every three years we wind up with two in the same calendar month.
But Earth's satellite will most likely not appear blue at all.
Typically, when a moon does take on a bluish hue, it is because of smoke or dust particles in the atmosphere, such as during a cataclysmic volcanic eruption.
This image from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope shows the tattered remnant of a supernova — a titanic explosion marking the end of the life of a dying star. This object — known as DEM L249 — is thought to have been created by a Type 1a supernova during the death throes of a white dwarf. While white dwarfs are usually stable, they can slowly accrue matter if they are part of a binary star system. This accretion of matter continues until the white dwarf reaches a critical mass and undergoes a catastrophic supernova explosion, ejecting a vast amount of material into space in the process.
DEM L249 lies in the constellation Mensa and is within the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC), a small satellite galaxy of the Milky Way only 160 000 light-years from Earth. The LMC is an ideal natural laboratory where astronomers can study the births, lives, and deaths of stars, as this region is nearby, oriented towards Earth, and contains relatively little light-absorbing interstellar dust. The data in this image were gathered by Hubble’s Wide Field Camera 3 instrument, and were obtained during a systematic search of the LMC for the surviving companions of white dwarf stars which have gone supernova.
Credits: ESA/Hubble & NASA, Y. Chu; CC BY 4.0
The ship called Kalkhôr is something of an enigma, for reasons addressed on the other photo. It has repeatedly foiled all attempts to identify it; as officially, it doesn't exist. Here we see it in the post-cataclysm Imperial colors, a paint scheme Kalkhôr never has worn, to anyone's knowledge. Why is it in grey? Because I don't want to traumatize you with color like I did on my battlecruiser.
It is armed with approximately 140 KEW turrets, 18 heavy KEW cannons along the forward hull, 16 plasma guns in 8 turrets, 4 mass-accelerator projectile drivers in the bow, and 2 particle beams in the bow. However, this isn't of any note for an Old Coalition ship. What is of special interest are the eight towers along the forward hull. From what has been observed of Kalkhôr in action, each of these towers holds a miniature warpspace engines, allowing the formation of half-rifts at will. It is the closest to energy shielding the Tarsins ever got, apparently, because these half-rifts seem to destroy incoming ordinance without fully opening a portal to warpspace. Try as they might, Imperial guildsmen have been able to replicate anything like it. Mostly because they don't even know how the warpspace engine works in the first place, let alone how this modification would work.