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I've seen many, so many over such a short period of time that it can almost be considered an overkill. I've been fat, skinny, distorted, confident, heartbroken,confused, overjoyed, hopeful,hapless,arrogant, mischievous, wannabe, the adjectives go on and on and zzzz...
Gah, where are the "সুখের পায়রা" when you need them?
Oh, right there they are...over the river Turag. Well good luck with the 80 mph wind, fools!
Location: Sluice Gate over Mirpur-Ashulia Road.
Sky: Angry, very.
Method: Self(ie)- IR Remote fired-Tripod mounted,Slightly tilted,Center composed.
On Black, পিলিজ my good mates
There are moments in science when the universe, as we know it, shifts beneath our feet—not with a cataclysm, but with the quiet stroke of a pencil, the alignment of data, the careful demolition of an old idea. Mike Brown has lived in those moments, his mind tuned to the faint whispers of the outer solar system, listening for planets that may—or may not—be there.
He stands at the blackboard, sleeves rolled up, chalk in hand, an orbital map unfurling behind him like the skeletal remains of a great celestial beast. The paths of distant worlds arc across the dark slate, bending under the invisible tug of something immense. It is a diagram of a mystery: the search for Planet 9, a ghostly world lurking at the farthest reaches of our solar system, its presence inferred only from the improbable, synchronized waltz of frozen bodies in the Kuiper Belt.
But before there was Planet 9, there was Pluto.
It was 2005, and Brown had just discovered Eris, a world at the edge of our solar system that rivaled Pluto in size, a celestial twin that upended everything. If Pluto was a planet, then Eris should be too. And if Eris was not a planet, then perhaps Pluto wasn’t either. The debate was ferocious—astronomers, schoolchildren, and late-night comedians all weighed in—but the evidence was unyielding. In 2006, the International Astronomical Union redefined what it meant to be a planet. Pluto, once the ninth planet, was demoted to a mere “dwarf planet.”
Brown took the heat. His email inbox filled with fury. Grade-schoolers sent him hate mail. His own daughter, barely old enough to speak, turned on him: “Daddy, I want Pluto to be a planet.” The world called him the “Pluto Killer.” But science, in the end, does not bend to sentiment.
Yet Brown, the man who took a planet away, was determined to find a new one.
In the years that followed, he and his team turned their eyes to the data, noticing a strange clustering of distant objects beyond Neptune. Something—something massive—was shepherding them into unnatural alignment. There was only one explanation: a hidden planet, lurking in the darkness, at least ten times the mass of Earth.
Planet 9.
It has yet to be seen, yet to be confirmed, but Brown is undeterred. He has spent a career rewriting the solar system, casting light into the void. If Planet 9 is out there, he will find it. And if it isn’t? Well, that, too, is an answer.
Brown’s office at Caltech is filled with books and data, images of the icy worlds he has named, reclassified, discovered, or doomed. His Twitter handle, still proudly defiant, is @PlutoKiller.
But when you ask him about his work, about the universe as he sees it, his eyes lift—not with the look of a man who has taken a planet away, but with the quiet, unwavering curiosity of a man who is still searching for the next one.
In a time immemorable, there was peace throughout the World. A glorious Coalition of Planets existed between the Tarsin Kingdoms that ruled it. They possessed sorcery beyond our understanding, for surely it was they that first bended space to open rifts into the Ether and forged living worlds from cold rocks... but this is not that time- this is much later.
— Entarî, the Constructor; counseling a Zaian youth; date unknown.
Ships of Old- holy artifacts that echo back to a time immemorable, a time before the great cataclysm. Yet, for they may also be an eternal tomb, dooming their unfortunate crew for a life of horror in the Etherreal Realm. How many trapped souls are lost to us? How many more have been taken by demon constructs for their nihilistic torments? For it is written, 'The Dead are not All that Sleep.'
While there are many of these ships of the Old Coalition in our fleets this day, they are still few in number; a rare sight indeed. This ship is no exception, rather, it is exceedingly grand amongst an armada of lesser ships, like unto a most glorious drop of anointed oil in a lake of holy water. Let me retell you the story of its making...
"There was once one man who sought to unite all the Tarsin Kingdoms of Old under his rule. He requested that the senate meet him at a building that we today call the Gates, where he revealed that he was a god of the pantheon in the guise of a mortal, come to retire the senate for the had determined that the World was finally worthy. The senate, however, denounced him and exiled him from Tarsis, homeworld and birthplace of civilization.
"In his spite, he rallied the allegiance of many Highlander Lords and constructed a glorious ship to herald his coming. As his brotherhood grew in strength, it is said that he too grew in strength, for their faith bridged the material realm to that of the Gods'.
"One morning, on a choice day when the stars of the World had aligned, he assembled his followers within the grand colonnade of his ship, where made yet another vow that he would one day rule them in his glory. He harkened to eight of his most skilled and loyal followers where he began his ritual coronation- it is said he then opened a rift into the ether in the space above them using only his hands, where he declared that upon the sacrifice of eight of the most choice newborn children from each of his eight followers' kin, his immortality in the material realm would be cemented and that the souls of the children would later return as crystalline demigods to serve as his eternal Auctor-guard.
"And it was this night that he imbued his hammer with the keys of divinity and was given the name Lightning King for he possessed dominion over the people. This is why there are some who, even to this day, call the Emperor by this name for they say he is his reincarnation, forever watching over the mortal systems."
Or so the texts read. There are other texts within the Archive that depict the Lightning King as a tyrant that meddled in dark sorceries. No matter the case, when I discovered the Azer ôv-Âlôvaikôr miraculously and spontaneously emerging from the ether as many Old Ships do, I knew at once it had to be reclaimed. Against the wishes of the Chancellor, who believed the ship should be brought to the Archival space dock to be studied, I petitioned the Emperor himself to travel with it and serve as a legate, so the warriors who take up this holy mission might see how truly sanctioned they are. Since that day, the whispers I hear from this ship have not ceased.
"If only he knew the demonic bond he has thrown himself into. This one I cannot stop."
— Entarî, the Constructor; a message sent to the Archive; 2284, three months prior to Earth's retake of Murs-Sonctarom, where Azithîr died at the hands of UNE's 'Feta Squad.'
This serene spiral galaxy hides a cataclysmic past. The galaxy IC 758, shown in this NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image, is situated 60 million light-years away in the constellation Ursa Major.
Hubble captured this image in 2023. IC 758 appears peaceful, with its soft blue spiral arms curving gently around its hazy barred center. However, in 1999, astronomers spotted a powerful explosion in this galaxy. The supernova SN 1999bg marked the dramatic end of a star far more massive than the Sun.
Credit: ESA/Hubble & NASA, C. Kilpatrick
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14 Then I will make their waters clear,
and cause their rivers to run like oil,
declares the Lord GOD.
The Holy Bible: English Standard Version (Wheaton: Standard Bible Society, 2001), Eze 32:14.
Lamentation over Pharaoh (Ezek. 32:1–16)
This section and the one following it could be considered as one prophecy with two different divisions. The first is a lamentation while the second is a funeral dirge.
Ezekiel once more pictures Pharaoh as a dragon whose feet trouble the waters and make the rivers foul. He will be dug out and thrown on the ground. His blood will drench the land and there will be a cataclysmic shock upon nature. Babylon is again specified as the instrument of punishment and spoken of as the most terrible among the nations.
Thoughts expressed in previous prophecies are reiterated and some new details are added. Both the poetical and prose sections make it clear Egypt will be stripped of her pride. When the land is completely purified the people will recognize the Lord. Ezekiel instructs the daughters of the nations to sing this lamentation concerning Egypt and her inhabitants.
Fred M. Wood, “Ezekiel,” in The Teacher’s Bible Commentary (ed. H. Franklin Paschall and Herschel H. Hobbs; Nashville: Broadman and Holman Publishers, 1972), 513.
April 27, 2011
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Frijoles Canyon, Bandelier National Monument
Remnants of a thick layer of welded tuff eroded into interestingly strange shapes overlooking ancestral pueblo people's communities' ruins.
Frijole Canyon is a result of the cataclysmic last super volcanic eruption in North America creating the Jemez Mountain Caldera. The eruption that resulted in the caldera produced huge quantities of pyroclastic welded tuff given the name Bandelier Tuff. This tuff formation is about a thousand feet thick and covers nearly all the volcanic centers of the caldera today.
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Hundreds of thousands of years later, the original American human inhabitants built habitations inside the rock - called cavate - as well as adobe and rock dwellings and ceremonial centers in Frijole Canyon.
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Original film image taken in 1973 with Konica AutoreflexA w/Konica Hexanon AR lens. Digital image by Sony a7iiir with Konica Hexanon 55mm f3.5 macro lens.
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You were standing in the wake of devastation
And you were waiting on the edge of the unknown
And with the cataclysm raining down
Insides crying "Save me now"
You were there, impossibly alone.
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Thas' ma brotha.
He is an awesome guy. You just have to get to know him :)
He abso-bloody-lutely loves this song, Iridescent, by Linkin Park.
So, I dedicated the lyrics to this photo.
Somehow, due to the moon, this reminds me of that part in the Harry Potter movie of The Prince of Azkaban, where Harry and Sirius are on a hill, talking about Harry being able to move in with Sirius in his house. Like actually living with him. This conversation happened just before Lupin turned into a werewolf and Sirius goes after him (Thanks to Keshav for correcting my mistake xP). Do you guys remember it?
I loved that part. I contained so much emotion. The other day, my brother was watching The Chamber Of Secrets and I felt like reading the whole Harry Potter series once again. I've read them twice already and I can't wait for my exams to finish so that I can start them off once again. ;)
My exams just started today. They'll go on till the 18th. After which there'll be study holidays till the 25th; after which we'll have our final exams till the 5th of March. Dang. I can't wait for all these exams to finish. They're breaking my head and I hardly have time for anything else. Bah.
Anyways, I'm surviving; thats what I do. :)
Hope you guys are well. Missing you.
Will get back to your streams hopefully tonight or tomorrow.
Take care.
<3 ;)
Ps. View on Black for me? :) *puppy dog eyes*
By the way, we climbed a mountain and got this! ;] Whooppdeeeddoooo! It was A.M.A.Z.I.N.G. !
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
Ages ago during a long-forgotten cataclysmic flood, desperate people boarded a tiny boat in a frantic effort to save themselves from Nature's fury. For what must have seemed like an endless voyage, they finally reached the safety of land as the angry waters began to recede.
Who were these intrepid souls and what was their story? Only a weathered launch remains as the reminder of an epic struggle of survival.
These two photos were taken by a Minolta Autocord Seikosha-MX (Chiyoko) TLR medium format film camera with it’s Chiyoko Rokkor 1:3.5 f=75mm taking lens and a 49mm Skylight(1A) filter using Kodak Portra 160 film, the negative scanned by an Epson Perfection V600 and digitally rendered with Photoshop.
After three centuries tethered on terrestrial Binaar, the phantom Erbens is freed by its cataclysm. Now, he sets out to find remnants of the High Order to expand his limited knowledge.
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.
This striking image was created with data from two different astronomical investigations, using one of Hubble’s retired instruments, the Wide Field and Planetary Camera 2 (WFPC2). The more powerful Wide Field Camera 3 replaced WFPC2 during Hubble Servicing Mission 4 in 2009. During its operational lifetime, WFPC2 contributed to Hubble’s 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 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 Hubble image of DEM L 190 released to the public. The mission previously published a portrait of this supernova remnant in 2003. This new image incorporates additional data and improved image processing techniques, making this spectacular celestial fireworks display even more striking.
Text credit: European Space Agency (ESA)
Image credit: ESA/Hubble & NASA, S. Kulkarni, Y. Chu
For more information: www.nasa.gov/image-feature/goddard/2022/hubble-homes-in-o...
This serene spiral galaxy hides a cataclysmic past. The galaxy IC 758, shown here in today’s NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope Picture of the Week, is situated 60 million light-years away in the constellation Ursa Major.
In this Hubble image captured in 2023, IC 758 appears peaceful, its soft blue spiral arms curving gently around its hazy barred centre. But in 1999, astronomers spotted a powerful explosion in this galaxy: the supernova SN 1999bg. SN 1999bg marked the dramatic end of a star far more massive than the Sun.
It’s not yet known how massive this star was before it exploded. Researchers will use these Hubble observations to measure the masses of stars in SN 1999bg’s neighbourhood, which will help them estimate the mass of the star that went supernova. The Hubble data may also reveal whether SN 1999bg’s progenitor star had a companion, which would give additional clues about the star’s life and death.
A supernova represents more than just the demise of a single star — it’s also a powerful force that can shape its neighbourhood. When a massive star collapses, triggering a supernova, its outer layers rebound off its shrunken core. The explosion stirs the interstellar soup of gas and dust out of which new stars form. This interstellar shakeup can scatter and heat nearby gas clouds, preventing new stars from forming, or it can compress them, creating a burst of new stars. The cast-off layers also become ingredients for new stars.
[Image Description: A spiral galaxy with a generally soft and slightly faint appearance. It glows most brightly around the pale yellow bar across its centre. It has two spiral arms which wrap around the centre, quickly broadening out to join a wide, faint circular halo around the galaxy. Glowing, sparkling patches in the disc show stars forming in nebulae. Behind the galaxy, distant galaxies appear as orange dots on a black background.]
Credits: ESA/Hubble & NASA, C. Kilpatrick; CC BY 4.0
My reference photo at top. Trying a looser style on this painting, not sure if it's working out. Could be worse, could be better. I drew the composition by hand rather than use the projector and boy it's easy to get lost in the chaos of the bark. There's no horizon line, nothing solid to anchor to; cracks form and then disappear into solid bark again, each strip repeats but are not the same. A big part of the reason why I love doing these bark paintings so much is that element of twisting and writhing forms but they can mess with your brain. Yeah, I might just stick with the projector next time :-)
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
For more information: www.nasa.gov/image-feature/hubble-images-a-dazzling-dynam...
The storm that came was almost unexpected, the typical blue sky of Neo Gotham began to turn a violent red and black. Lightning show down amongst the buildings, causing damage to Wayne Enterprises and several other dominant companies within the city.
Across the town, at Hamilton Hilll High, a young man walked passed most of the other students who had come out to observe the change in weather, Terry McGinnis looked up into the sky and felt the familiar vibrate of his phone.
"Terry here."
"Terry," A gruff voice said, "I need you here, now."
"Boss? I'm sort of in school still."
"Skip, this is important."
With a click on the other end, Terry looked at his phone briefly and then to the school parking lot. He ran to his car, well Wayne's car, and activated the starting cycle. The car was based on the batmobille's technology, capable to hover and even fly, Terry did a final system's read out check, and punched it into high gear.
Within minutes he was at Mocking Bird Lane, the only house left being Wayne Manor, Terry landed the car outside the front doors, not bothering with the garage, making his way through the house, he pet Ace on the head, through the living room, the dinning hall, the kitchen and finally into the study. He stopped as he looked at a picture of the Waynes on the wall. He shook his head slightly, and turned to the clock, pressing a button and swiveling the time to 10:47, the clock slid to the left revealing stairs cut in stone.
Walking down the stairs, trying not to be nervous and angry about having to skip school, he entered a large cavern, a Computer over looking an edge, the chair that sat before the computer was occupied by none other then Bruce Wayne.
"Whats up boss, this has to be serious."
"Something is wrong with the time stream."
"How do you know?"
"Because of this." Bruce pointed to the trophy area, Terry followed, everything looked in order, Jason Todd's costume, Catwoman's, Mr fre-. Freeze's gun was gone, there wasn't even a display for it. Terry looked at Bruce. "Mr Freeze's Ice gun should be there. It's not. Something is wrong."
"But Freeze died a few years back, remember? He practically tore Wayne-Powers apart. The gun was still in the case then."
"Indeed, which tells us something, time hasn't caught up with us."
"How, do you even know, maybe someone snuck in and stole it?"
Bruce stared at him. "I was researching something about Freeze earlier, when I noticed the gun missing." With a few key strokes he punched up a picture on the computer.
"That can't be possible.."
"I know."
The monitor revealed the following headline:
GOTHAM CITY DESTROYED MR. FREEZE TRIUMPHS!
Below the headline was a picture of Batman dead, due to an icicle along with all of the other heroes of the time. The date read as 2013.
"That's, what are we going to do?"
"Thank our lucky stars the the time stream that changed hasn't destroyed this one yet. And secondly, how do you feel about travel being added to your job desciption?"
"I.. well, is that even possible?"
"Yes."
"You have a working time machine?!"
"Yes."
"have you ever used it before?"
"Twice, once to try to stop Jason's death, and another.." he looked toward the study and shook his head. "It's not important."
Terry nodded. "I'll suit up."
"You do that. I need to make a call."
"To who?"
"Bart Allen."
"For what?" Terry asked as he was taking off his jacket.
"The Cosmic Treadmill can only be powered by the fastest man alive. And last I recall, Bart was still the Flash."
Terry stared at Bruce, he took the costume and went into the changing chamber. Bruce picked up the phone.
"I need to speak with Bart Allen please..."
Storyline by Jeff McElwee
There are some 20,000 ships remaining that were built before the cataclysm, and the Azâa-class makes up a significant fraction of those 20,000. This relatively little ship is believed to have been the mainstay for patrols and support actions. Given its quality compared to post-cataclysm ships, though, it has become something of a centerpiece for fleets too unimportant to warrant an Old Coalition-built capital ship. Altûnis serves in an obscure fleet on the edge of the World itself, patrolling a string of civilized worlds nestled between the unsettled systems of the Zyyan Realm and the gaping abyss of the intergalactic void. She has not seen any action in decades, since she took part in destroying a band of of heathen nomads which had slipped past the frontier unnoticed. She has not seen true battle in over a thousand years, since the days of Emperor Katamemnôs the forty-first.
Most of them have a standard armament is 2 bow-mounted heavy plasma cannons, 2 mass-accelerator projectile drivers alongside it, 4 plasma cannons in 4 single-gun turrets, and 24 KEWs turrets, 2 guns apeice.
Note. I've come full circle haven't I? Back to stubby ships, right where I started four years ago. (That's a link, by the way)
Всемирный потоп (фрагмент)
Exhibition of Aivazovsky . Russia, St. Petersburg,
Выставка Айвазовского. Россия. Санкт-Петербург.
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Well of Shiuan - book 2 of the Morgaine cycle - C.J. Cherryh [fantasy novel - November 12, 2015 - 0656]
The Morgaine book series by C.J. Cherryh consist of four novels. The second book "Well of Ivrel"(1976) is commented upon in this report.
The following is my synopsis of the back-story for these four novels:
The ancient Qhal Empire expanded and dominated civilizations throughout the Galaxy. The Qhal are human in appearance and can breed, if desired, with other humanoid beings. The teleportation Gates technology the Qhal reversed engineered and utilized for interstellar travel were discovered in ruins on a dead world. The Qhal did not invent the Gates. Using the Gates the ruthless Qhal who despised other "native" beings imposed their wills without remorse. In the end the downfall of the Qhal was in the nature of the Gates. The Gates in addition to providing instantaneous travel between star systems could also be used to travel forward in time. It is speculated from analysis of ancient Qhal artifacts on many worlds that travel back in time unraveled the Qhal civilization. Qujalin are human offspring that have bred with Qhal beings. Morgaine is a Qujalin who has undertaken a quest to go from world to world destroying the master Gates since there influence corrupts societies, nature and individuals. It should be noted that all worlds contain many Gates but only one Master Gate. Shutting down the Master renders them all just dead stone monuments.
I have not been able to definitely determine the motivation that propels Morgaine to go from world to world closing the Gates. Certainly the Gates are inherently evil but I was she given a mandate by some council or organization or is she self - motivated, the latter appears to be the case as best I can determine. Her journeys are difficult and dangerous yet her persistence and dedication never waivers. There is enormous opposition to her task since those in power lose all when the Gates is sealed. Fortunately she is in possession of an incredibly magical sword - Changling by name - that is partnered with the mystical evil of the Gates and provides her a weapon that can irrevocably draws individuals to oblivion. How she aquired this incredibly powerful weapon is unknown. Use of the sword takes a psychic toll on her. All the books take place in medieval type world. The technologies evident are body armor and cross bows; horses are the only means of transportation. These pre industrial revolution locals makes for interesting stories but I question if the Qhal who were interstellar travelers what happened to their technology?
Vanye the bastard son of Nhi Rijan killed his half-brother Nhi Kandrys and cut off several fingers of his other half-brother Nhi Erij in a fight he was goaded into by the half-brothers. His father was incensed with grief and anger and cursed his son and pronounced him an "ilin" an outcast. Vanye was "claimed" by the Qujalin Morgaine to assist her in defeating a clan leader who aspires for the forbidden knowledge of the Gates. At the story unfolds her becomes her assistant is riding worlds of Master Gates.
Well of Shiuan - book 2 of the Morgaine cycle:
The setting for this book is alien planet that had in the distant past been an outpost of the Qhal. The planet has earth-like conditions and is populated with men and descendants of the Qhal who have breed with the humans. The planet's moon had experienced a cataclysmic event that results in a steadily rising sea level and a forbidding sense of dread among the inhabitants. The society is pre-industrial and feudal ruled by clans who maintain uneasy alliances and truces with adjoining clans. Warriors are respected for their skills with bows and swords and their horsemanship. Anything to do with the Qhal - the Gates or beings with Qhal blood - Qujalin - is an object of justified superstitious dread. Nonetheless some individual's lust for the powers Qhal items can provide. Morgaine and her sworn assistant Vanyn appear intent on closing the Master Gate. Degenerate Qhal, a being masquerading as Vanye's cousin and angry locals conspire to thwart their plan.
This book screams for a glossary of terms - alas there isn't one. The author with a masters of arts in mythology fills her books with cryptic terms for places and locations that, frankly, were unfamiliar to this reader. Alas I had to slow down take a few notes and use some page index tabs to refer back too and I was ok and good to go. It was worth the effort - this is a many-layered story with several very strong personalities competing for the reader attention. The climax of this story, a stand-alone book as published, begs for sequel. Fortunately for us there was one.
I have read several of Ms. Cherryh's books and to be honest they are an acquired taste and put demands on the reader not accustomed to her writing style and narrative pacing. In this book the narrative pacing proceeded glacially. Nonetheless I enjoyed this book and will eventually read the two remaining sequels.
Abell 35 (Sh2-313) is a planetary nebula located at a distance of about 520 light years from the solar system in the Constellation Hydra. At its center is a cataclysmic variable known as LW Hydrae, which is a binary star composed of a white dwarf, responsible for the creation of the planetary nebula, and a white-yellow main sequence dwarf of spectral class G, separated by only about 13 AU . [1]
Because of a number of extraordinary features, Abell 35 has represented a challenge to theories of binary star evolution [with numerous papers with various descriptions in the literature].
This 26.0hr image with RGBHO filters was processed as RGB and natural color HOO combined with RGB stars using PixInsight and PS CS6. The data was collected by DeepSkyWest in Rio Hurtado, Chile in April-June 2022
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Filters used were FLI 8mm: R: 29x600s, G: 24x600s, B: 19x600s: H:18x1800s and O:10x1800s.
[1] Gatti, AA; et a., The separation of the stars in the binary nucleus of the planetary nebula Abell 35 , Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society , vol. 301, n. 2, December 1998, pp. L33-L37. Retrieved 2009-12-29.
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Beneath the ashen vault where daylight withers
and the horizon forgets the shape of its own bones,
a fracture stirs; not sudden, not violent,
but with the slow, terminal certainty
of a world unlearning itself.
The land bends,
folds,
convulses;a metallic convulsion forged from the marrow of extinct geometries,
a curvature born from the silence between collapsing epochs.
Its surface shivers with the last reflections
of an exiled sun,
its sharp edges mimicking the language
spoken only by structures that never belonged here.
Around it, the trees stand as spectral archivists,
their branches like fractured veins
recording the tremor of an approaching erasure.
They whisper in a dialect of frost and ruin,
telling of an age where matter forgot its purpose
and surrendered to forms that do not breathe
yet devour the notion of stillness itself.
Within the fold,
a hollow light pulses; not alive,
not dead,
but suspended in the terminal gulf
between what the world once imagined
and what it now refuses to remember.
It is not a monument.
It is not a wound.
It is the residue of a silent cataclysm,
an obsidian echo of the moment
when the horizon itself decided
to fracture,
to kneel,
to vanish.
And everything around it;
every shadow,
every tangled root,
every breath of that dying sky;
is merely the faint afterimage
of a reality dissolving
under the weight
of its own forgotten architecture.
En HOMENAJE a todas las víctimas del terrible terremoto y maremoto que azotó a nuestra región.
Sesión realizada en enero del 2010 en la VIII región de Chile. Equipo realizador perteneciente íntegramente a la ciudad de Concepción.
Photo and Post: Pablo Henríquez Palma
Model: Martina - Elite
Styling: Coty Mendoza
Makeup: Dolores Amarilla
Clothes: Mariamen
Location: Hualpén, Concepción - Chile
The high-resolution background image of this poster is also available to download and use:
Mount St. Helens: A Mountain Reborn background image
Learn and see more:
US Forest Service Mount St. Helens Area page
The Bare Earth lidar story map
Map text:
The cataclysmic eruption of Mount St. Helens on the morning of May 18, 1980, instantly transformed the glacier-capped volcano and its surrounding forests and lakes into an unrecognizable landscape. Moments before the volcano erupted, an earthquake accompanied the collapse of 3.7 billion cubic yards of land on the north flank of the mountain—one of the largest landslides in recorded history! The lateral blast that instantaneously followed the landslide flattened everything in its path—as far as 17 miles away from the volcano. Pyroclastic flows covered the land to the north of the volcano with a mixture of hot gases and debris while the vertical eruption column sent ash and gas high into the atmosphere.
In addition to altering the volcano’s physical landscape, the eruption catastrophically disrupted its productive mountain ecosystem. In the years and decades that followed, however, streams carved new paths through the volcanic deposits, the volcano grew bulky lava domes, and within the steep crater walls, a new glacier was born. Today, plants and animals have repopulated the lakes and lands around the volcano and life is once again flourishing.
Read more below for examples of how the landscape of Mount St. Helens has been continuously transformed since the eruption of 1980.
1 Lava Domes
Between 1980 and 1986, a series of smaller eruptions formed a lava dome in the crater of Mount St. Helens. These eruptions added an estimated 101 to 119 million cubic yards of lava to the crater. An eruption from 2004 to 2008 formed a series of dacite spines that added an additional lava dome with 121 million cubic yards of material—enough to fill almost 37,000 Olympic swimming pools!
2 Crater Glacier
Movement in the crater snowfield in the mid-1990s signaled the arrival of Crater Glacier (also known as Tulutson Glacier). Since then, a combination of shade from a north-facing aspect and high crater walls, avalanches of snow, ice, and rock from the crater rim, and an insulating rock cover have fueled the glacier’s continuous growth. In 2004, erupting lava began squeezing the glacier against the crater walls accelerating its downslope flow. Four years later the east and west arms of the glaciers merged, completely encircling the lava domes.
3 Spirit Lake
The debris avalanche from the 1980 eruption completely displaced Spirit Lake, pushing its waters 800 feet up the opposite slopes and completely filling the former lake basin with volcanic sediment. Amazingly, the elevation of the current lakebed is now higher than the lake’s previous surface. Although the lake is not as deep as before, the shoreline is 200 ft higher than it once was and the surface area is nearly double its previous size. In the decades since the eruption, life has returned to the lake. Phytoplankton, the base of the aquatic food chain, reemerged, followed by frogs and salamanders. Rainbow trout, likely reintroduced by humans, now thrive in the lake’s waters. A persistent mat of floating logs, remnant of the former surrounding forest, now covers 15–20 percent of the lake, providing additional habitat for insects and other life.
4 Pumice Plain
Pyroclastic flows from the initial and subsequent 1980 eruptions of Mount St. Helens blanketed the surface of the debris avalanche directly north of the mountain and left behind a barren zone known as the ‘Pumice Plain’. Incredibly, within two years, native lupine plants bloomed on this sterile landscape. In turn, lupine added essential nutrients to the soil while also providing anchor points for other plants to take hold. In the decades since the eruption, many other native plants and animals, including pocket gophers and elk, have gradually returned to the Pumice Plain. It has become an invaluable living laboratory for scientists seeking to study how landscapes recover and develop after a seemingly catastrophic geologic event.
5 North Fork Toutle River
The debris avalanche completely buried the upper North Fork Toutle River near the mountain. Hours after the eruption, a volcanic mudflow known as a lahar entered the lower reach of the river as ice and snow meltwater, groundwater, and sediment flowed from the deposit. The lahar traveled down the Toutle and Cowlitz River system to the Columbia River, choking downstream channels with sediment and debris. Today, the river winds a new course by eroding and transporting debris avalanche sediment down river. Including the lahar, over 400 million tons of sediment have entered the river system since 1980, yet only about 15 percent of the deposit has been eroded. Although many structures have been built to contain sediment and manage flooding, sediment continues to flow into the river promising the 1980 eruption and debris avalanche will continue to reshape the North Fork Toutle River into the foreseeable future.
Map by Daniel E. Coe, Washington Geological Survey, Washington State Department of Natural Resources.
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Feel the heat, feel the burn, feel your world breaking into millions of tiny pieces.
Set: Greyhound: Cataclysm
"Quand surviendra le cataclysme universel, le Grand Gel qui fera tout périr, le Crépuscule des Dieux wagnérien, l'arbre, seul debout, régénérera le monde. Un homme, une femme sortiront de son bois, la grande aventure pourra recommencer...."
Jacques Brosse / "Géo" n°187, septembre 1994)
Cette forêt de plus de 780 hectares sert de frontière naturelle aux collines de l'Artois d'un côté et à la plaine maritime flamande de l'autre. Elle détient en son coeur un site classé sur le sentier du bois de ballon : la colonne Blanchard, témoin de la première traversée de la Manche en ballon en 1785.
Les arbres (en majorité des chênes, hêtres, charmes ou bouleaux) peuplent la zone en futaies régulières, mais quelques clairières laissent parfois apparaître de magnifiques individus solitaires...
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This forest of 785 hectares serves as a natural border to the Artois Hills on the one side and the Flemish coastal plain on the other. She holds in her heart a classified site: the "Blanchard column", witness of the first balloon crossing of the English Channel in 1785.
Trees (mostly oaks, beech, hornbeams and birch) inhabit the area in regular groves, but some glades sometimes let some beautiful solitary individuals appear...
What is hysteria and what is prudence? What constitutes foolish swagger and what is necessary courage? What is our personal role in this unfolding cataclysm, not just today but tomorrow, and the day after?
The cliffs of the Yellowstone River canyon owe their existence to the tremendous volcanic forces that have affected the region during the past two million years. Cataclysmic eruptions ejected huge volumes of rhyolite magma. Each eruption formed a caldera and extensive layers of thick pyroclastic flow (hot gas and rock) deposits.
While I was shooting, I felt the need to pause and wonder just what must have happened inside the earth when this cliff was formed.
This is my first upload from my second shoot with the dictionary definition amazing Katherine Velours.
Our first shoot was interrupted by a near literally cataclysmic rain storm. Having been drenched the first time around, we figured we'd go ahead with the second shoot despite stalking rain threatening to turn to thunder. I'm so glad we gave it shot. Certainly there was plenty of rain about, yet setting up in a wooded area for shelter we ended up with great cover from the wind for a series of backlit smoke shots.
The smoke comes from some little pellets from a company called "Pea Soup" that I'd recommend. I think they're sold as paint-balling supplies. Focusing through it is a nightmare; I dread to think what this would have cost shooting on film.
The superb Darryl J Dennis is providing invaluable assistance wafting the wayward smoke around with a spare reflector.
There's a danger my photostream is going to be completely overrun with shots from this series... Please shout at me if that becomes the case. There's a B&W version in the comments; this one has to be colour to my mind, but I've really enjoyed people's thoughts on the colour/B&W versions when I post alternatives. The feedback is especially appreciated when people disagree, so if you have a second I'd love to know what you think.
Hopefully everyone is having an amazing week.
Info for Strobist:
2x Canon 600EX-RT - master on camera in Lasolite "Ezybox" at ~1/16, slave fired by built in RT in umbrella 45 degrees camera left, 2 feet above model, 3m back, gelled CTO, at 1/2 power. Backlight is from an LED strip (ungelled) just behind the model camera left, and a 220 lumen Lenser MT7 military flashlight gelled red about 4m behind the model on the ground. There's a 1.2m silver reflector on a makeshift stand camera right, just off axis.
I am Lux. I see all possibilities and my energy touches all things. I manifest in this world because destructive energy is out of balance. Cataclysm exists in too many possibilities.
Look into my portal. The worthy will see the universe as it may be. The unworthy will be consumed for my growth in this world.
Its simple math:
Desert Eagle + M92 + Stufff = Clusterfuck
Clusterfuck / Cyberpunk = Cyberpunked Clusterfuck
Cyberpunked Clusterfuck + My demigodish Talent = Caliber 50 pistol above
Have fun.
SUMMARY
Discovered on 2021/09/27.882 by Conjat at Mag 18.5.
Unconfirmed to < mag 20
IMAGE INFORMATION / NOTES
Taken from Savannah Skies Observatory using an SBIG STXL-6303 camera and 41-cm RCOS telescope on a Software Bisque PME Mount.
TIME: 29.697 UT; 33 x 5 min exposures; binned 2x2; scale 1.01 asec/px; clear filter
Неаполитанский залив
Exhibition of Aivazovsky . Russia, St. Petersburg,
Выставка Айвазовского. Россия. Санкт-Петербург.
Venus Transit-
Large black spot on top is Venus eclipsing / passing in front of the sun.
This wont happen again until 2117-
"Do you feel cold and lost in desperation?
You build up hope, but failures all you've known.
Remember all the sadness and frustration
And let it go.
Let it go..."
Been a while since I have done any abstract so sorry to inflict this one you, I have to let the real me out once in a while :-)
This was driving home last week, all guns blazing, great way to deal with traffic :-),
hey they baned mobile use whilst driving- didn't say anything about laser canons.....
View Large Crazy lights On Black
shot: 3.2secs f13 ISO400
Taken from Savannah Skies Observatory using an SBIG STXL-6303 camera and 41-cm RCOS telescope on a Software Bisque PME Mount.
2021.6.12.81 UT; Mag 12.4 C
LINKS
David Bishop's Supernova Website: www.rochesterastronomy.org/snimages/
Transient Name Server: www.wis-tns.org/
Info about supernovae: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supernova