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My daughter, Melissa and her fiance both make jewelry.
Melissa made the one on the left and Hendy made the one on the right.
I like the tarnished surface on both the rings and the copper sheet that they are set on.
MacroMondays theme this week is Copper
Lionel Messi (FC Barcelona), Mikel Balenziaga (Athletic Club) and Luis Enrique MartÃnez GarcÃa(FC Barcelona manager) during the Spanish La Liga match at Camp Nou, Barcelona, Spain, on 13 Sep 2014..................................................................... Final Score - Barcelona(2) : Athletic(0)
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The Muskegon South Pierhead Light is a steel tapered cylindrical tower located at the west end of the south pier at the entry channel that connects Muskegon Lake with Lake Michigan. The light tower was constructed in 1903 and remains an active navigational light. .
Someone (not I!) has festively dressed a woodland tree with Christmas ornaments.
DeKalb County (MedlockPark), Georgia, USA.
11 December 2024.
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The moon shot from my balchony in the city (Copenhagen), on a "warm" night (after a hot day). So probably not ideal atmospheric conditions for "astro photography". But still pretty cool?
I was using tripod, and I could probably easily have chosen a slower shutter speed and a lower the ISO speed. Must remember that next time...
Pallas-Athene-Brunnen/Athena Fountain - Austrian Parliament, Vienna, Austria 2014..... At the entrance of Austrian Parliament building, is the 5,5 m high statue of Pallas Athene which stands in the middle of a large fountain. The sculptor Carl Kundmann created the statue according to the plans from architect Hansen.
The goddess of wisdom Pallas Athene holds in her right hand a small figure of Nike the goddess of victory and in her left hand a spear. www.city-walks.info/Vienna/Parliament.html
The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has observation time devoted to Saturn each year, thanks to the Outer Planet Atmospheres Legacy (OPAL) program, and the dynamic gas giant planet always shows us something new. This latest image heralds the start of Saturn's "spoke season" with the appearance of two smudgy spokes in the B ring, on the left in the image.
The spokes are enigmatic features which appear across Saturn’s rings. Their presence and appearance varies with the seasons — like Earth, Saturn is tilted on its axis and therefore has four seasons. With Saturn's much larger orbit, each season lasts approximately seven Earth years. Equinox occurs when the rings are tilted edge-on to the Sun and marks the height of spokes’ visibility, while during a solstice when the Sun is at its highest or lowest latitude, the spokes disappear.
The shape and shading of spokes varies — they can appear light or dark, depending on the viewing angle, and sometimes appear more like blobs than classic radial spoke shapes, as seen here. The ephemeral features don't last long, but as the planet's autumnal equinox approaches on 6 May 2025, more will appear.
Scientists will be looking for clues to explain the cause and nature of the spokes. It's suspected they are caused by interaction between Saturn's magnetic field and the solar wind, which also causes aurorae to appear on the planet. The hypothesis is that spokes are the smallest, dust-sized, icy ring particles being temporarily electrically charged and levitated, but this has not been confirmed.
Saturn's last equinox occurred in 2009, while the NASA/ESA/ASI Cassini spacecraft was orbiting the gas giant planet for close-up reconnaissance. With Cassini's mission completed in 2017, Hubble is continuing the work of long-term monitoring of changes on Saturn and the other outer planets.
[Image description: A close-up image of the planet Saturn. The rings are level with the viewer, and tilted slightly down.]
Credits: ESA/Hubble, NASA & A. Simon, A. Pagan (STScI); CC BY 4.0
A yellow oriole (Icterus nigrogularis) in its natural habitat on Curaçao, a Lesser Antilles island in the southern Carribean sea.
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'Fauna, Curaçao 2023' by fragandaphoto, licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0
En la rÃa de O Burgo hay un jardÃn botánico. ¿Cómo es posible que tuviera que ser un compañero fotógrafo el que informase a los que "arreglan" el jardÃn que la parte que iban a ..."arreglar" estaban anidando diversas aves ( ahà anidan carboneros, jilgueros, herrerillos, mosquiteros, camachuelos, pito real ) y que por favor no se les ocurriera molestarlos, en vez de informarles la persona que supongo que tiene que haber para ello en el ayuntamiento o en la Xunta?. Sino para qué hacen el jardÃn botánico...¿sólo para ver flores?, ¡venga ya!. Tengo entendido que de diversas partes de España ha venido personal de "alertas de aves" para fotografiarlas, escondidos en "hides", redes o láminas de camuflaje, dentro del jardÃn botánico.
Suelo ver un fotógrafo por el paseo de la rÃa, concretamente, las veces que lo vi, apuntando su cámara al estanque o charca o lo que sea, del jardÃn botánico. Muy majo, tanto como las fotos que se pueden ver, de su autorÃa, en alguna de las revistas de fotografÃa o naturaleza en el quiosco de la esquina.
¡Grandioso!
Since the Golden gate bridge opened in 1937, somone has jumped from it every two weeks on average. Out of nearly 2,000 attempts only 28 have failed. In a year, 1.7 million men and 0.4 million women kill themselves. Did we as a society push them? Was their life a gloomy Sunday? Or is this the natural order of life?
potato bread with a fried egg and kale!
Potato bread bought in but the egg from our hens and the kale from the garden.
Easy, simple, hearty and delicious!
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John Cale - Hallelujah
Murals Kensington Market.
There’s so much to see without spending a dime! From the colourful Victorian houses, to the street art and murals, to the diverse blend of tourists and residents that occupy the streets, take a stroll through Kensington to see all the sights. The bohemian neighbourhood is a hub for artists, so you’re sure to stumble across buskers, sketch artists and other street performers along your travels.
A spectacular trio of merging galaxies in the constellation Boötes takes centre stage in this image from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope. These three galaxies are set on a collision course and will eventually merge into a single larger galaxy, distorting one another’s spiral structure through mutual gravitational interaction in the process. An unrelated foreground galaxy appears to float serenely alongside the collision, and the smudged shapes of much more distant galaxies are visible in the background.
This colliding trio — known to astronomers as SDSSCGB 10189 — is a relatively rare combination of three large star-forming galaxies lying within only 50 000 light-years of one another. While that might sound like a safe distance, for galaxies this makes them extremely close neighbours! Our own galactic neighbours are much further away; Andromeda, the nearest large galaxy to the Milky Way, is more than 2.5 million light-years away from Earth.
This observation was designed to help astronomers understand the origin of the largest, most massive galaxies in the universe. These galactic behemoths are called Brightest Cluster Galaxies (BCGs) and — as the name suggests — are defined as the brightest galaxies in any given galaxy cluster. Astronomers suspect that BCGs form through the merger of large, gas-rich galaxies like the ones in this image. They turned to Hubble’s Wide Field Camera 3 and Advanced Camera for Surveys to investigate this galactic trio in painstaking detail, hoping to shed light on the formation of the Universe’s most massive galaxies.
[Image description: Three galaxies stand together just right of centre. They are close enough that they appear to be merging into one. Their shapes are distorted, with strands of gas and dust running between them. Each is emitting a lot of light. Further to the left is an unconnected, dimmer spiral galaxy. The background is dark, with a few smaller, dim and faint galaxies and a couple of stars.]
Credits: ESA/Hubble & NASA, M. Sun; CC BY 4.0
taken last night.
The cottages at the base of the lighthouse were open today for European Heritage Open Days. hundreds got to have a look around.
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red peppers from the greenhouse dried in a low oven and given a quick blitz in a coffee grinder
for MacroMondays - Condiment theme
Bleu ciel, bleu marine. C’est cette couleur qui va à la Bretagne comme un gant, qui s’associe à elle si naturellement que la question ne se pose même pas.
Je vous laisse regarder ce bleu qui se marie à merveille avec la pierre bretonne.
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The lazily winding spiral arms of the spectacular galaxy NGC 976 fill the frame of this image from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope. This spiral galaxy lies around 150 million light-years from the Milky Way in the constellation Aries. Despite its tranquil appearance, NGC 976 has played host to one of the most violent astronomical phenomena known — a supernova explosion. These cataclysmicly violent events take place at the end of the lives of massive stars, and can outshine entire galaxies for a short period. While supernovae mark the deaths of massive stars, they are also responsible for the creation of heavy elements that are incorporated into later generations of stars and planets.
Supernovae are also a useful aid for astronomers who measure the distances to faraway galaxies. The amount of energy thrown out into space by supernova explosions is very uniform, allowing astronomers to estimate their distances from how bright they appear to be when viewed from Earth. This image — which was created using data from Hubble’s Wide Field Camera 3 — comes from a large collection of Hubble observations of nearby galaxies which host supernovae as well as a pulsating class of stars known as Cepheid variables. Both Cepheids and supernovae are used to measure astronomical distances, and galaxies containing both objects provide useful natural laboratories where the two methods can be calibrated against one another.
Credits: ESA/Hubble & NASA, D. Jones, A. Riess et al.; CC BY 4.0
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In this image, the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope captures a side-on view of NGC 3568, a barred spiral galaxy roughly 57 million light-years from the Milky Way in the constellation Centaurus. In 2014 the light from a supernova explosion in NGC 3568 reached Earth — a sudden flare of light caused by the titanic explosion accompanying the death of a massive star. Whilst most astronomical discoveries are the work of teams of professional astronomers, this supernova was discovered by amateur astronomers from the Backyard Observatory Supernova Search in New Zealand. Dedicated amateur astronomers often make intriguing discoveries — particularly of fleeting astronomical phenomena such as supernovae.
This Hubble observation comes from a hoard of data built up to pave the way for future science with the upcoming NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope. By combining ground-based observations with data from Hubble’s Advanced Camera for Surveys and Wide Field Camera 3, astronomers have built a treasure trove of data on the connections between young stars and the clouds of cold gas in which they form. One of Webb’s key science goals is to explore the life cycle of stars — particularly how and where stars are born. Since Webb observes at infrared wavelengths, it will be able to peer through the clouds of gas and dust in stellar nurseries and observe the fledgling stars within. Webb’s superb sensitivity will even allow astronomers to directly investigate faint protostellar cores — the earliest stages of star birth.
Credits: ESA/Hubble & NASA, M. Sun; CC BY 4.0
The mass of dust and bright swirls of stars in this image are the distant galaxy merger IC 2431, which lies 681 million light-years from Earth in the constellation Cancer. The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has captured what appears to be a triple galaxy merger in progress, as well as a tumultuous mixture of star formation and tidal distortions caused by the gravitational interactions of this galactic trio. The centre of this image is obscured by a thick cloud of dust — though light from a background galaxy can be seen piercing its outer extremities.
This image is from a series of Hubble observations investigating weird and wonderful galaxies found by the Galaxy Zoo citizen science project. Using Hubble’s powerful Advanced Camera for Surveys (ACS), astronomers took a closer look at some of the more unusual galaxies that volunteers had identified. The original Galaxy Zoo project was the largest galaxy census ever carried out, and relied on crowdsourcing time from more than 100 000 volunteers to classify 900 000 unexamined galaxies. The project achieved what would have been years of work for a professional astronomer in only 175 days, and has led to a steady stream of similar astronomical citizen science projects. Later Galaxy Zoo projects have included the largest ever studies of galaxy mergers and tidal dwarf galaxies, as well as the discovery of entirely new types of compact star-forming galaxies.
Credits: ESA/Hubble & NASA, W. Keel, Dark Energy Survey, DOE, FNAL, DECam, CTIO, NOIRLab/NSF/AURA, SDSS; CC BY 4.0
Acknowledgement: J. Schmidt
The ultra-diffuse galaxy GAMA 526784 appears as a tenuous patch of light in this image from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope. This wispy object resides in the constellation Hydra, roughly four billion light-years from Earth. Ultra-diffuse galaxies such as GAMA 526784 have a number of peculiarities. For example, their dark matter content can be either extremely low or extremely high — ultra-diffuse galaxies have been observed with an almost complete lack of dark matter, whereas others consist of almost nothing but dark matter. Another oddity of this class of galaxies is their anomalous abundance of bright globular clusters, something not observed in other types of galaxies.
Hubble captured GAMA 526784 with the Advanced Camera for Surveys (ACS), which was installed in 2002 by astronauts during Hubble Servicing Mission 3B. Since then, the instrument has played a pivotal role in some of Hubble’s most impressive scientific results, including capturing the Hubble Ultra Deep Field. The ACS has also photographed Pluto in advance of the New Horizon mission, observed gargantuan gravitational lenses and found fully formed galaxies in the early Universe.
This image comes from a set of Hubble observations designed to shed light on the properties of ultra-diffuse galaxies. Hubble’s keen vision allowed astronomers to study GAMA 526784 in high resolution at ultraviolet wavelengths, helping to gauge the sizes and ages of the compact star-forming regions studding the galaxy.
Credits: ESA/Hubble & NASA, R. van der Burg; CC BY 4.0
Acknowledgement: L. Shatz
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The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has determined the size of the largest icy comet nucleus ever seen by astronomers.
This image sequence shows how the nucleus of Comet C/2014 UN271 (Bernardinelli-Bernstein) was isolated from a vast shell of dust and gas surrounding the solid icy nucleus. On the left is a photo of the comet taken by the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope's Wide Field Camera 3 on 8 January 2022. A model of the coma (middle panel) was obtained by means of fitting the surface brightness profile assembled from the observed image on the left. This allowed for the coma to be subtracted, unveiling the point-like glow from the nucleus. Combined with radio telescope data, astronomers arrived at a precise measurement of the nucleus size. That's no small feat from something roughly 4.8 billion kilometres away. Though the nucleus is estimated to be as large as 135 kilometres across, it is so far away it cannot be resolved by Hubble. Its size is derived from its reflectivity as measured by Hubble. The nucleus is estimated to be as black as charcoal. The nucleus area is gleaned from radio observations.
Credits: NASA, ESA, Man-To Hui (Macau University of Science and Technology), David Jewitt (UCLA), Alyssa Pagan (STScI); CC BY 4.0
Le Château des pères, le Piré sur seiche, l'art et la matière . . .
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Especially lazy this morning, the sun's got up before me. A view from the bedroom window.
Today is day 170 of Project 365 (Saturday).
7 March 2022 marks the 20th anniversary of the Advanced Camera for Surveys (ACS) aboard the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope. On 7 March 2002 astronauts installed the ACS during Hubble Servicing Mission 3B, also known as STS-109. With its wide field of view, sharp image quality, and high sensitivity, the ACS delivers many of Hubble’s most impressive images of deep space.
The ACS wavelength range extends from the ultraviolet, through the visible and out to the near-infrared. Its name, the Advanced Camera for Surveys, comes from its particular ability to map large areas of the sky in great detail. The ACS can also perform spectroscopy with a special optical tool called a grism.
Three subinstruments make up the ACS. The Wide Field Channel is a high-efficiency, wide-field, optical and near-infrared camera that is optimised to hunt for galaxies and galaxy clusters in the remote and ancient Universe, at a time when the cosmos was very young. The High Resolution Channel was designed to take extremely detailed (high resolution) pictures of the light from the centres of galaxies with massive black holes, though this is not currently operational, and the Solar Blind Channel blocks visible light to allow faint ultraviolet radiation to be discerned. Amongst other things, it can be used to study weather patterns on other planets and aurorae on Jupiter.
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Captured on 19 August 2020, this Copernicus Sentinel-3 image shows the extent of the smoke from fires currently ablaze in California, US. Amid the blistering heatwave, which is in its second week, there are around 40 separate wildfires across the state. Record high temperatures, strong winds and thunderstorms have created the dangerous conditions that have allowed fires to ignite and spread. The fires are so extreme in regions around the San Francisco Bay Area that thousands of people have been ordered to evacuate.
Credits: contains Copernicus Sentinel (2020), processed by ESA, CC BY-SA 3.0 IGO