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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.
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Strobist: AB800 with gridded HOBD-W camera right. Triggered with Cybersync.
My travels around the UK by car for three weeks with my son. June/July 2019 Scotland.
Day fourteen .. Braveheart Car Park making our way to Inverness, where we are staying the night.
Ben Nevis is the highest mountain in the British Isles. Standing at 1,345 metres above sea level, it is at the western end of the Grampian Mountains in the Lochaber area of the Scottish Highlands, close to the town of Fort William.
"Ben Nevis" is an Anglicisation of the Scottish Gaelic name "Beinn Nibheis". "Beinn" is the most common Gaelic word for "mountain".
Ben Nevis is all that remains of a Devonian volcano that met a cataclysmic end in the Carboniferous period around 350 million years ago. Evidence near the summit shows light-coloured granite (which had cooled in subterranean chambers several kilometres beneath the surface) lies among dark basaltic lavas (that form only on the surface). The two lying side-by-side is evidence the huge volcano collapsed in on itself creating an explosion comparable to Thera (2nd millennium BC) or Krakatoa (1883). The mountain is now all that remains of the imploded inner dome of the volcano. Its form has been extensively shaped by glaciation.
For More Info: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ben_Nevis
This dark, tangled web is a supernova remnant, created after a massive star ended its life in a cataclysmic explosion. This created the messy formation we see in this NASA's Hubble Space Telescope image, with threads of red snaking amidst dark, turbulent clouds.
SNR 0454-67.2 is situated in the Large Magellanic Cloud, a dwarf galaxy that lies close to the Milky Way. The remnant is likely the result of a Type Ia supernova explosion; this category of supernovae is formed from the death of a white dwarf star that grows by siphoning material from a stellar companion until it reaches a critical mass and then explodes.
As they always form via a specific mechanism — when the white dwarf hits a particular mass — these explosions always have a well-known luminosity, and are thus used as markers (standard candles) for scientists to obtain and measure distances throughout the universe.
Image credit: European Space Agency (ESA)
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Formed by the cataclysmic outburst flooding of Lake Bonneville during the Pleistocene ice age about 14,000 years ago, Shoshone Falls is a waterfall in the western United States, on the Snake River in south-central Idaho, approximately three miles (5 km) northeast of the city of Twin Falls. Sometimes called the "Niagara of the West," Shoshone Falls is 212 feet (65 m) in height, 45 feet (14 m) higher than Niagara Falls, and flows over a rim nearly one thousand feet (300 m) in width.
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Sotheby's London, Russian Art Evening Sale, June 2009.
Source: www.sothebys.com/en/auctions/ecatalogue/2009/russian-art-...
In the 1910's of the state of health Kustodiev suffering from spine, has deteriorated sharply. Chained to a wheelchair and virtually cut off from the outside world, the artist had to work from memory. «The Village Fair» - the typical sample kustodievskih pastoral paintings from the life of Russian provinces. In the post-time, on the eve of new global cataclysm irrevocably pushed back patriarchal Russia, represented in pictures Kustodiev, enjoyed great success as an artist at home or in Europe
Become a psychedelic flower of the trance-human revolution, an anti-christ-establishment cult-ural phenomenon. Enjoy a cataclysmic decline in human cognition due to a dehumanized zombie like state of mindless conformity as you embrace your electronic slavery. Participate in the new social norms of deviant social evolution while in your brand new altered state of consciousness. The hypnotic patterns of synchronized antichrist frequencies producing rhythmic motor patterns in the absence of your sensory inputs will control you like a robot. How exhilarating!
Will you become a flower child of the Fourth Industrial Revolution? Will you be a budding flower of transhumanism—a bloom, a hybrid, a child of the Beast? Don’t forget your passport; grab your Digital ID and head toward the goal, toward the Mark. Immortality is waiting; it is waiting until Judgment Day, when you will receive your just reward of eternal punishment. Your pedals will be plucked off. You will wilt and fade away, no longer to be remembered. Your fragrance will smell of fire, your aroma of sulfur.
Revelation 20:15 “Anyone whose name was not found written in the book of life was thrown into the lake of fire.”
"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.
L'oeuvre de l'Apocalypse de Saint- Emilion d'après Saint Jean est donc une tentative de rendre compréhensible en même temps l'âpreté douloureuse du combat entre le Bien et le Mal et la lumière joyeuse de la promesse de la victoire de Dieu."
in www.saint-emilion-tourisme.com/fr/explorer/les-incontourn...
in Gironde, Aquitaine, France
Lake Mapanuepe, Zambales, Philippines
The lake was created after the cataclysmic eruption of Mount Pinatubo in 1991. Lahars following the eruption blocked the drainage of Mapanuepe River, south of the volcano, flooding Mapanuepe Valley together with its settlements. Only the steeple of the church protruding out of the water remained from one of the villages.
(From Wikipedia)
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 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 above the lowest point on the caldera floor and the deepest point in the lake.
The lake is 1949 feet deep which accounts for the cobalt blue water. But note the various shades of blue as the depth decreases. In the shallows you can find aqua marine and other shades. Add in the blue sky and Crater Lake gives you the blues in a good way.
Crater Lake is the deepest lake in the United States, the second-deepest in North America (after Great Slave Lake in Canada).
Chandra's 2008 image of SN 1006 shows X-rays from multimillion degree gas (red/orange) and high-energy electrons (blue). In the year 1006 a "new star" appeared in the sky and in just a few days it became brighter than the planet Venus. We now know that the event heralded not the appearance of a new star, but the cataclysmic death of an old one. It was likely a white dwarf star that had been pulling matter off an orbiting companion star. When the white dwarf mass exceeded the stability limit (known as the Chandrasekhar limit), it exploded. Material ejected in the supernova produced tremendous shock waves that heated gas to millions of degrees and accelerated electrons to extremely high energies.
Image credit: NASA/CXC/Rutgers/G.Cassam-Chenai, J.Hughes et al.
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That night, I had a plastic bottle of acetone cracked in my hand, which flooded the floor and the washing machine. The house was full of stench and chaos. All evening I was eliminating the consequences of the cataclysm, ventilating the apartment, washing off the remains of acetone from the washing machine, along with plastic and paint on it, and then as an apology, fate awarded me with this magnificent picture outside the window.
Вечерний мороз
В тот вечер в моих руках раскрошилась на куски пластиковая бутылка с ацетоном, который залил весь пол и стиралку. В доме воцарилась неимоверная вонь и полный хаос. Весь вечер я устранял последствия катаклизма, проветривал квартиру, смывал остатки ацетона со стиральной машины вместе с пластиком и краской на ней, а потом, видимо, в качестве извинений, судьба наградила меня этой великолепной картиной за окном.
Explanation: Chaotic in appearance, these filaments of shocked, glowing gas break across planet Earth's sky toward the constellation of Cygnus, as part of the Veil Nebula. The Veil Nebula itself is a large supernova remnant, an expanding cloud born of the death explosion of a massive star. Light from the original supernova explosion likely reached Earth over 5,000 years ago. Blasted out in the cataclysmic event, the interstellar shock waves plow through space sweeping up and exciting interstellar material. The glowing filaments are really more like long ripples in a sheet seen almost edge on, remarkably well separated into the glow of ionized hydrogen and sulfur atoms shown in red, and oxygen in blue hues. Also known as the Cygnus Loop, the Veil Nebula now spans nearly 3 degrees or about 6 times the diameter of the full Moon. While that translates to over 70 light-years at its estimated distance of 1,500 light-years, this field of view spans less than one third that distance. Identified as Pickering's Triangle for a director of Harvard College Observatory. (text: apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap150917.html)
This picture was photographed during September-November 2016 in Rozhen observatory, Bulgaria.
Equipment: home assembled reflector 10 in., f/3.8
Mount WhiteSwan-180 with a control system «Eqdrive Standart», camera QSI-583wsg, Televue Paracorr-2. Off-axis guidecamera QHY5L-II.
HaRGB filter set Astrodon gen. II.
HaRGB = 19* 900 seconds, unbinned. 19 hours total.
FWHM source 1.96"-3.04", sum: - 2.22"
The height above the horizon from 64° to 79°, the scale of 1"/ pixel.
Processed Pixinsight 1.8 and Photoshop CS6
"Them? Evil? Maybe... Or maybe the world is simply defending itself for reasons you can't comprehend."
-Marn the Kanoka Hunter
A flying creature spawned by the Cataclysm. These large beasts swoop down to catch the souls lingering around, seemingly eating them.
The hunters mainly go after souls, but occasionally they attack undead only to leave them immobilized. Undead steer away from them since their attacks usually mark the presence of Nor of the End.
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My entry for Bio Cup's round 1 with my opponent being Poor Disadvantaged. The theme was 'air rahi'.
I initially went for a look similar to Guardians from Journey, but it started to look like a dragonfly, so I took the concept to a different direction.
The wings have a gimmick of extending and shortening depending on whether the creature is flying, landed or diving in the air.
Don’t be fooled! The cosmic swirl of stars in this NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image may seem tranquil and unassuming, but this spiral galaxy, known as ESO 580-49, actually displays some explosive tendencies.
In October of 2011, a cataclysmic burst of high-energy gamma-ray radiation — known as a gamma-ray burst, or GRB — was detected coming from the region of sky containing ESO 580-49. Astronomers believe that the galaxy was the host of the GRB, given that the chance of a coincidental alignment between the two is roughly 1 in 10 million. At a distance of around 185 million light-years from Earth, it was the second-closest gamma-ray burst (GRB) ever detected.
Gamma-ray bursts are among the brightest events in the cosmos, occasionally outshining the combined gamma-ray output of the entire observable Universe for a few seconds. The exact cause of the GRB that probably occurred within this galaxy, catalogued as GRB 111005A, remains a mystery. Several events are known to lead to GRBs, but none of these explanations appear to fit the bill in this case. Astronomers have therefore suggested that ESO 580-49 hosted a new type of GRB explosion — one that has not yet been characterized.
Credit: ESA/Hubble & NASA
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The events surrounding the Big Bang were so cataclysmic that they left an indelible imprint on the fabric of the cosmos. We can detect these scars today by observing the oldest light in the universe. As it was created nearly 14 billion years ago, this light — which exists now as weak microwave radiation and is thus named the cosmic microwave background (CMB) — permeates the entire cosmos, filling it with detectable photons.
The CMB can be used to probe the cosmos via something known as the Sunyaev-Zel’dovich (SZ) effect, which was first observed over 30 years ago. We detect the CMB here on Earth when its constituent microwave photons travel to us through space. On their journey to us, they can pass through galaxy clusters that contain high-energy electrons. These electrons give the photons a tiny boost of energy. Detecting these boosted photons through our telescopes is challenging but important — they can help astronomers to understand some of the fundamental properties of the universe, such as the location and distribution of dense galaxy clusters.
The NASA/ESA (European Space Agency) Hubble Space Telescope observed one of most massive known galaxy clusters, RX J1347.5–1145, seen in this Picture of the Week, as part of the Cluster Lensing And Supernova survey with Hubble (CLASH). This observation of the cluster, 5 billion light-years from Earth, helped the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) in Chile to study the cosmic microwave background using the thermal Sunyaev-Zel’dovich effect. The observations made with ALMA are visible as the blue-purple hues.
Image credit: ESA/Hubble & NASA, T. Kitayama (Toho University, Japan)/ESA/Hubble & NASA
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Two tugs, Svitzer Tiger and VB Peter (Boluda Towage) at Gravesend Reach on the River Thames.
There was plenty of cloud today, some of it threatening Wagnerian cataclysm, but, as is the way in Gravesend, there was some rain but not a lot.
Sometimes, when the light and the river are just so, it can throw up some nice colouring, as, in my view, here...Svitzer Tiger is a bright orange and the dark grey of the sky and river set it off nicely, while VB Peter does the "I may be some time" bit. (It was going to meet a very bright blue gravel carrier...).
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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.
Image credit: ESA/Hubble & NASA, R. Chandar
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My devotional for today taken from "Jesus Calling, Enjoying
Peace in His Presence" by Sarah Young, it was truly timely:
This is a time in your life when you must learn to let go: of loved ones, of possessions, of control. In order to let go of something that is precious to you, you need to rest in My Presence, where you are complete. Take time to bask in the Light of My Love. As you relax more and more, your grasping hand gradually opens up, releasing your prized possession into My care. You can feel secure, even in the midst of cataclysmic changes, through awareness of My continual Presence. The One who never leaves you is the same One who never changes: I am the same yesterday, today, and forever. As you release more and more things into My care, remember that I never let go of your hand. Herein lies your
security, which no one and no circumstance can take from you.
Blessed are those who have learned to acclaim you,
who walk in the light of your presence, O Lord. - Psalm 89:15
Jesus Christ is the same yesterday and today and forever. Hebrews 13:8
"For I am the Lord, your God, who takes hold of your right hand and says to you, Do not fear; I will help you." - Isaiah 41:13
Thanking everyone for their prayers for my family
and wishing each of you a blessed Easter weekend!!!
Freie Strasse, Basel, Switzerland on lockdown Easter monday
"The Quiet Earth" ...is a 1985 New Zealand post-apocalyptic science fiction film directed by Geoff Murphy and starring Bruno Lawrence, Alison Routledge and Peter Smith as three survivors of a cataclysmic disaster. It is loosely based on the 1981 science fiction novel of the same name by Craig Harrison. (wikipedia)
☆Location: Park Kolomenskoye, Southern Administrative Okrug of Moscow, Russia.
🌳All these century-old oaks (and not only them) have suffered greatly from the climatic cataclysms that have swept over Moscow over the past two decades.
Все эти вековые дубы (и не только они) сильно пострадали от климатических катаклизмов, пронёсшихся над Москвой за последние два десятилетия
(Updated on July 26,2025)
Looking north-northwest toward the High Falls of the Pigeon River.
In this region, this stream marks the boundary of the United States and Canada. Here it spills over a northeast-southwest-oriented dike of Mesoproterozoic diabase, a dark wall of highly resistant mafic igneous rock. Then it rushes down a canyon deeply incised into much softer shale, siltstone, and graywacke of the Paleoproterozoic Rove Formation. These sedimentary strata can be dimly discerned through the mist at lower left and right.
The tremendous visceral impact of the surging water and splashing spray is matched by the spectacle of geologic time presented at the High Falls. The Rove beds were deposited between 1.836 and 1.78 Ga ago in the Animikie Basin, a downwarped section of the Earth's crust linked to the Penokean mountain-building episode.
Then, at about 1.1 Ga and long after the lofty Penokean Mountains had been beveled flat by erosion, the magma that would become the diabase was injected into a large vertical fissure in the Rove. This occurred during the cataclysmic episode that created the Midcontinent Rift (MCR) and almost tore North America apart. While specialists still debate the details of its origin, the MCR formed in a time of crustal extension and thinning. Its massive outpourings of lava may also be linked to mantle-plume activity.
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In Norse mythology, a valkyrie (from Old Norse: valkyrja, lit. 'chooser of the slain') is one of a host of female figures who guide souls of the dead to the god Odin's hall Valhalla. There, the deceased warriors become einherjar (Old Norse "single (or once) fighters". When the einherjar are not preparing for the cataclysmic events of Ragnarök, the valkyries bear them mead. Valkyries also appear as lovers of heroes and other mortals, where they are sometimes described as the daughters of royalty, sometimes accompanied by ravens and sometimes connected to swans or horses.
First light with new gear, I think the result speaks for itself. This is the western half of the amazing Cygnus Loop (a.k.a. Veil Nebula), the results of a long ago supernova, a star that blew itself apart in a cataclysmic explosion.
Tech: 3-panel mosaic, each 22 300 sec. exposures, Explore Scientific 102mm FCD100, ZWO ASI294MC, dual narrow-band filter (H-alpha, [OIII]), iOptron CEM25P, ASIAir, processed in Astro Pixel Processor and Adobe Photoshop Lightroom.
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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
Europe, Greece, South Aegean, Cyclades, Santorini (Thira), Oia, Caldera, Nea Kamena (cut from T & B)
The second i-lockdown, arm-chair travelling visit to Santorini.
Shown here is Oia, like Fyra (middle left in this frame) perilously perched on the edge of the caldera. On the same height, central is Nea Kamena.
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 24 of the Cyclads 2011 album.
Today it's the 11th of November.
That means that it was 98 years ago The First Great War ended.
The greatest, crulest, most horrific, most terrifying, most cataclysmic, most transformational, most destructive and deadliest war humanity had ever faced.
Fortunately the war ended and the world could start to rebuild, that day is 98 years ago today. That is something to be remembered. Even if it's "only" Lego, or a game.
I know it's 98 years ago and not 100. But I still think that it's a topic that you can't point out too much.
Après les grandes tragédies et les pires cataclysmes, la vie finit toujours par reprendre ses droits. Quelques semaines à peine après des incendies qui ont tout ravagé en Australie, des bourgeons et des feuilles sortaient déjà des troncs calcinés. Après le Covid-19, la vie normale refera surface encore une fois.
After the great tragedies and the worst cataclysms, life always ends up resuming its rights. Just a few weeks after the fires that ravaged everything in Australia, buds and leaves were already emerging from the charred trunks. After Covid-19, normal life will once again surface.
Skin: Ataciara in Cobalt from Plastik
Hair: Andarial from Magika
Tattoo: Cataclysm from Fallen Gods
Ears: Seelie Ears from Illusions
Crater Lake National Park, Oregon and Wizard Island in Winter.
From Wikepedia: "Wizard Island was created after Mount Mazama, a large stratovolcano, 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."
Thanks for viewing and have a great weekend everyone!
Montserrat Monastery, CAT, ES
Clouds were glowing lightened by monastery illumination from below and full moon from above
"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 =]
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Exhibition of Aivazovsky . Russia, St. Petersburg,
Выставка Айвазовского. Россия. Санкт-Петербург.
This shot was taken just 20 minutes after Liberty Under Siege? The sky's color turned from yellow to deep orange. NYC is not only the "city that never sleeps," but also the "city that never stops." However, this deep orange sunset and the unique cloud formation caused all the joggers and business people rushing home to stop in their tracks. They all looked up in awe, and whipped out their phone cams to take pics.
What I had initially thought was a unique cloud formation really wasn't. It even has a name (Mammatus).
This shot was NOT HDR. It was almost SOOC, with only a slight crop and curve adjustments. The skyline (Jersey City) is distorted from the wide angle perspective, but a friend commented that it adds to the scene's "end of the world" drama.
Highest Explore: #43
Feel the heat, feel the burn, feel your world breaking into millions of tiny pieces.
Set: Greyhound: Cataclysm
The events surrounding the Big Bang were so cataclysmic that they left an indelible imprint on the fabric of the cosmos. We can detect these scars today by observing the oldest light in the universe. As it was created nearly 14 billion years ago, this light — which exists now as weak microwave radiation and is thus named the cosmic microwave background (CMB) — permeates the entire cosmos, filling it with detectable photons.
The CMB can be used to probe the cosmos via something known as the Sunyaev-Zel’dovich (SZ) effect, which was first observed over 30 years ago. We detect the CMB here on Earth when its constituent microwave photons travel to us through space. On their journey to us, they can pass through galaxy clusters that contain high-energy electrons. These electrons give the photons a tiny boost of energy. Detecting these boosted photons through our telescopes is challenging but important — they can help astronomers to understand some of the fundamental properties of the universe, such as the location and distribution of dense galaxy clusters.
The NASA/ESA (European Space Agency) Hubble Space Telescope observed one of most massive known galaxy clusters, RX J1347.5–1145, seen in this Picture of the Week, as part of the Cluster Lensing And Supernova survey with Hubble (CLASH). This observation of the cluster, 5 billion light-years from Earth, helped the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) in Chile to study the cosmic microwave background using the thermal Sunyaev-Zel’dovich effect. The observations made with ALMA are visible as the blue-purple hues.
Image credit: ESA/Hubble & NASA, T. Kitayama (Toho University, Japan)/ESA/Hubble & NASA
Text credit: ESA
2000 year-old Sitka spruce stumps. The forest was destroyed in a natural cataclysm in 1700. The stumps are underwater most of the time, only visible like this a few times per year on extreme negative low tides
My travels around the UK by car for three weeks with my son. June/July 2019 Scotland.
Day fourteen .. Braveheart Car Park making our way to Inverness, where we are staying the night.
Ben Nevis is the highest mountain in the British Isles. Standing at 1,345 metres above sea level, it is at the western end of the Grampian Mountains in the Lochaber area of the Scottish Highlands, close to the town of Fort William.
"Ben Nevis" is an Anglicisation of the Scottish Gaelic name "Beinn Nibheis". "Beinn" is the most common Gaelic word for "mountain".
Ben Nevis is all that remains of a Devonian volcano that met a cataclysmic end in the Carboniferous period around 350 million years ago. Evidence near the summit shows light-coloured granite (which had cooled in subterranean chambers several kilometres beneath the surface) lies among dark basaltic lavas (that form only on the surface). The two lying side-by-side is evidence the huge volcano collapsed in on itself creating an explosion comparable to Thera (2nd millennium BC) or Krakatoa (1883). The mountain is now all that remains of the imploded inner dome of the volcano. Its form has been extensively shaped by glaciation.
For More Info: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ben_Nevis