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Every street has paper lanterns, some more than others. These were on one of the side streets near Senso-Ji.
We dont actually get much snow so always a bit of novelty factor associated. All the better on a day I dont have to go to work. Having said that I have not actually gone out in it - just lit the fire and pointed the camera out various windows!
Lou Doillon - Snowed In
Another of my Thanksgiving Day dramatic sky shots from Fort Ross, with the Pacific and the wooden Russian Church silhouetted on the left, more of the Russian fort complex silhouetted to the right of these. It really was a fabulous sunset. This fort would have been in full use by the Russians during the war of 1812, which is the war that is the backdrop to Tolstoy's War and Peace.
The Copernicus Sentinel-1B satellite takes us over central Italy. From the Apennine Mountains in the top right, to the fertile, former lakebed of the Avezzano plain in the centre right, this bright, false-colour image captures the diversity and beauty of the region’s landscapes.
Dual-polarisation radar technology has been used, resulting in vibrant shades of green for most of the land surface shown. Built up areas, such as Italy’s capital city of Rome, appear in shades of red and pink. Meanwhile, the structure of the agricultural fields of Altopiano in the Abruzzo region is clearly reflected in a combination of blue and violet hues.
This radar technology allows us to see the crater lake structures of the volcanic lakes of Nemi and Albano in the bottom left clearly. The same is true for Lago di Vico with the volcano and crater clearly visible in the top left of the image.
The central region of Italy is an important one for the space industry. For example, ESA’s centre for Earth observation, which celebrates its 50-year anniversary this week, is located in this area.
This region is also prone to earthquakes. In August 2016, a magnitude 6.2 earthquake struck the small towns of Amatrice, Accumoli and Pescara del Tronto. It was followed by two aftershocks. A magnitude 6.6 earthquake in Norcia followed in October the same year. The tremor of this last earthquake was felt across the country. It was the most powerful one to hit Italy since 1980.
Sentinel-1’s radar technology can provide images with a resolution of 10 m and within hours of acquisition to aid emergency response. This imagery can support impact assessments for many types of hazard including floods and earthquakes.
This image, which was captured on 6 July 2018, is also featured on the Earth from Space video programme.
Credits: contains modified Copernicus Sentinel data (2018), processed by ESA,CC BY-SA 3.0 IGO
Café Wilder on Christianshavn, Denmark.
Shot with the ultrawide (rectilinear) Venus Optics LAOWA 9mm f/5.6 W-Dreamer lens (M-mount version) mounted on a Canon EOS R6 via adapter.
Handheld, 1/10s, ISO 10.000.
In celebration of the 34th anniversary of the launch of the legendary NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope, astronomers took a snapshot of the Little Dumbbell Nebula (also known as Messier 76, M76, or NGC 650/651) located 3400 light-years away in the northern circumpolar constellation Perseus. The photogenic nebula is a favourite target of amateur astronomers.
M76 is classified as a planetary nebula. This is a misnomer because it is unrelated to planets. But its round shape suggested it was a planet to astronomers who first viewed it through low-power telescopes. In reality, a planetary nebula is an expanding shell of glowing gases that were ejected from a dying red giant star. The star eventually collapses to an ultra-dense, hot white dwarf.
M76 is composed of a ring, seen edge-on as the central bar structure, and two lobes on either opening of the ring. Before the star burned out, it ejected the ring of gas and dust. The ring was probably sculpted by the effects of the star that once had a binary companion star. This sloughed-off material created a thick disc of dust and gas along the plane of the companion’s orbit. The hypothetical companion star isn’t seen in the Hubble image, and so it could have been later swallowed by the central star. The disc would be forensic evidence for that stellar cannibalism.
The primary star is collapsing to form a white dwarf. It is one of the hottest stellar remnants known at a scorching 120 000 degrees Celsius, 24 times our Sun’s surface temperature. The sizzling white dwarf can be seen as a pinpoint in the centre of the nebula. A star visible in projection beneath it is not part of the nebula.
Pinched off by the disc, two lobes of hot gas are escaping from the top and bottom of the ‘belt’ along the star’s rotation axis that is perpendicular to the disc. They are being propelled by the hurricane-like outflow of material from the dying star, tearing across space at two million miles per hour. That’s fast enough to travel from Earth to the Moon in a little over seven minutes! This torrential ‘stellar wind’ is ploughing into cooler, slower-moving gas that was ejected at an earlier stage in the star’s life, when it was a red giant. Ferocious ultraviolet radiation from the super-hot star is causing the gases to glow. The red colour is from nitrogen, and blue is from oxygen.
The entire nebula is a flash in the pan by cosmological timekeeping. It will vanish in about 15 000 years.
[Image description: A Hubble image of the Little Dumbbell Nebula. The name comes from its shape, which is a two-lobed structure of colourful, mottled glowing gases that resemble a balloon that has been pinched around a middle waist. Like an inflating balloon, the lobes are expanding into space from a dying star seen as a white dot in the centre. Blistering ultraviolet radiation from the super-hot star is causing the gases to glow. The red colour is from nitrogen, and blue is from oxygen.]
Credits: NASA, ESA, STScI, A. Pagan (STScI); CC BY 4.0
When the rain is over you can get very nice pictures playing with light and the remains of water.
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Been seeing a few of these on widow sills - Not quite sure what they are. Maybe Chrysolina sp.
the lines on the card are 8mm apart so the body of the beetle is about 1.2 cm I think (or maybe a bit less)
Podiceps auritus (Nordisk lappedykker)
I was wondering why there was so many photographers and birdwatchers with their spotting scopes hanging around the lake.
It was this punky/funky red-eye ninja-style fellow creating a stir. Though somehow common in Sweden, a rare sight in Denmark in its summer breeding plumage. Apparently it had been hanging out in my little local "pond" for the last three weeks, and was joined by another one a few days ago.
This whirling image features a bright spiral galaxy known as MCG-01-24-014, which is located about 275 million light-years from Earth. In addition to being a well-defined spiral galaxy, MCG-01-24-014 has an extremely energetic core, known as an active galactic nucleus (AGN), so it is referred to as an active galaxy. Even more specifically, it is categorised as a Type-2 Seyfert galaxy. Seyfert galaxies host one of the most common subclasses of AGN, alongside quasars. Whilst the precise categorisation of AGNs is nuanced, Seyfert galaxies tend to be relatively nearby ones where the host galaxy remains plainly detectable alongside its central AGN, while quasars are invariably very distant AGNs whose incredible luminosities outshine their host galaxies.
There are further subclasses of both Seyfert galaxies and quasars. In the case of Seyfert galaxies, the predominant subcategories are Type-1 and Type-2. These are differentiated from one another by their spectra — the pattern that results when light is split into its constituent wavelengths — where the spectral lines that Type-2 Seyfert galaxies emit are particularly associated with specific so-called ‘forbidden’ emission. To understand why emitted light from a galaxy could be considered forbidden, it helps to understand why spectra exist in the first place. Spectra look the way they do because certain atoms and molecules will absorb and emit light very reliably at very specific wavelengths. The reason for this is quantum physics: electrons (the tiny particles that orbit the nuclei of atoms and molecules) can only exist at very specific energies, and therefore electrons can only lose or gain very specific amounts of energy. These very specific amounts of energy correspond to certain light wavelengths being absorbed or emitted.
Forbidden emission lines, therefore, are spectral emission lines that should not exist according to certain rules of quantum physics. But quantum physics is complex, and some of the rules used to predict it use assumptions that suit laboratory conditions here on Earth. Under those rules, this emission is ‘forbidden’ — so improbable that it’s disregarded. But in space, in the midst of an incredibly energetic galactic core, those assumptions don’t hold anymore, and the ‘forbidden’ light gets a chance to shine out towards us.
[Image Description: A spiral galaxy. It appears to be almost circular and seen face-on, with two prominent spiral arms winding out from a glowing core. It is centred in the frame as if a portrait. Most of the background is black, with only tiny, distant galaxies, but there are two large bright stars in the foreground, one blue and one red, directly above the galaxy.]
Credits: ESA/Hubble & NASA, C. Kilpatrick; CC BY 4.0
This poor deer has two fawns, and despite having her hooves full, was kind enough to pose for a family portrait, which is kind of special, as this is day 100 of Project 365 (Saturday). I never thought I'd keep this going for this long, but somehow...
Novato, California!
Mississippi River. New Orleans.
IMO: 9612882
MMSI: 636092680
Call Sign: D5AD8
Flag: Liberia [LR]
AIS Vessel Type: Cargo - Hazard D (Recognizable)
Gross Tonnage: 88586
Deadweight: 94374 t
Length Overall x Breadth Extreme: 299.97m × 45.63m
Year Built: 2012
Status: Active
in the vegetation in the pond margin, quite a few seem to fall into the pond
about to fly but the shutter got to click first
Billy Nomates - balance is gone
Jardin de sculptures de la Fondation Pierre Gianadda, Martigny, Suisse
« Les jardins de la Fondation, ombragés et agrémentés de plans d'eau, présentent d'intéressants vestiges gallo-romains. On peut y admirer une exposition permanente de sculptures du XXe siècle par des artistes de renom international »
« Jean Dubuffet est un peintre et un sculpteur connu pour être le fondateur du mouvement de l’art brut. Sa fascination pour l’art des non-initiés, plus particulièrement celui réalisé par les enfants, les malades et ceux pour qui n’ont pas de références culturelles et artistiques, l’incite à imiter leur style pour l’incorporer dans le sien. Né Jean Philippe Arthur Dubuffet le 31 juillet 1901 au Havre, Dubuffet étudie à l’Académie Julian avec Raoul Dufy, Suzanne Valadon et Fernand Léger en 1918, mais quitte sa formation après six mois. Il retourne à l’art au début des années 1940 et forme la Compagnie de l’Art Brut (1948 – 1951, restaurée en 1962) avec André Breton, Slavko Kopac, entre autres. Il meurt le 12 mai 1985 à Paris à l’âge de 83 ans et la Fondation Jean Dubuffet, créée en 1973 dans le Val-de-Marne, continue de présenter ses œuvres. »
www.gianadda.ch/240_espaces/244_parc_de_sculptures/ www.artnet.fr/artistes/jean-dubuffet/
I went to check out the giant inflatable duck art installation currently on view at Harbour City to see what the fuss is all about. And there it is, floating on water.
This gigantic rubber duck which measures 14 x 15 x 16.5 meters was created as a statement for peace. In the Dutch artist Florentijn Hofman’s own words, “the Rubber Duck knows no frontiers, it doesn't discriminate people and doesn't have a political connotation. The friendly, floating Rubber Duck has healing properties: it can relieve mondial tensions as well as define them. The rubber duck is soft, friendly and suitable for all ages!” [1]
As with all things crazy in Hong Kong, what was most spectacular is not really the duck, but how many it has appeared on the media as well as how many people were seen photographing the duck on the docks.
On the evening news in Hong Kong, it was reported that some photographers were pushing each other just to get a space to photograph this floating duck. Oh humans.
The best place to photograph this is on the roof of Ocean Terminal where the car park is. There are much less people there and you get to see the duck well. I am claustrophobic so this is obviously where I photographed it.
# Notes
1. Florentijn Hofman: Projects: Rubber Duck: Hong Kong 2013 www.florentijnhofman.nl/dev/project.php?id=192
# SML Data
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+ Focal Length: 32 mm
+ ISO: 200
+ Flash: DId not fire
+ Camera: Canon EOS 6D
+ Lens: Canon EF 17-40 f/4L USM
+ GPS: 22°17'42" N 114°10'4" E
+ Location: 中國香港九龍尖沙咀海港城 Harbour City, Tsim Sha Tsui, Kowloon, Hong Kong, China
+ Workflow: Lightroom 4
+ Serial: SML.20130508.6D.05448
+ Series: Photojournalism, Crazyisgood, SML Fine Art
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This is a previously-undiscovered astrophysical anomaly, found in the Hubble Space Telescope’s archive by researchers using a new AI-assisted method. The AI tool allowed them to sift through nearly 100 million image cutouts in just days, turning up rare and anomalous objects like this one.
Two dramatically different galaxies are revealed in this Hubble image. A compact, reddish elliptical galaxy is accompanied by a blue spiral galaxy squashed into an arc shape. This is the result of gravitational lensing, where light from the spiral galaxy — actually residing in the background — has been bent by the mass of the heavy elliptical galaxy, creating this distorted image of the spiral.
[Image description: A small image of a galaxy. It is compact and oval-shaped, dark orange in colour with a white spot at the very centre. Along the right edge of this galaxy sits a bright blue arc, the same length as the elliptical galaxy. This is an image of a background galaxy, formed by gravitational lensing.]
Credits: ESA/Hubble & NASA, D. O’Ryan, P. Gómez (European Space Agency), M. Zamani (ESA/Hubble); CC BY 4.0
Sometimes you just have to change perspective. THese beauties were growing in northern New Medico along the upper Pecos river.
This is a previously-undiscovered astrophysical anomaly, found in the Hubble Space Telescope’s archive by researchers using a new AI-assisted method. The AI tool allowed them to sift through nearly 100 million image cutouts in just days, turning up rare and anomalous objects like this one.
This image depicts a gravitational lens, where the enormous mass of one galaxy distorts, bends and magnifies light from another galaxy behind it, resulting in a warped image of the background galaxy. The gravitational lens is easily identifiable here, with the lensed galaxy forming an arc around the dense core of the foreground, lensing galaxy.
[Image description: A small image of a galaxy. It’s round with a bright white centre and a faint halo of light around that. A band of light runs down through the galaxy, notably bending around the galaxy’s core as if pushed away. This band is an image of a background galaxy, formed by gravitational lensing.]
Credits: ESA/Hubble & NASA, D. O’Ryan, P. Gómez (European Space Agency), M. Zamani (ESA/Hubble); CC BY 4.0
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Drents-Friese Wold National Park
On the border of the provinces of Friesland and Drenthe lies Drents-Friese Wold National Park. Within this extensive area of woodland and heath lie the shifting sands of Aekingerzand.
Het Nationaal Park Drents-Friese Wold is een natuurgebied op de grens van de Nederlandse provincies Friesland en Drenthe. Het Nationale Park bestaat uit bos, heide en stuifzanden. Het is vooral bekend vanwege De Kale duinen (het Aekingerzand). Dit stuifzandgebied is groot genoeg om de wind de kans te geven het zand ook echt te laten stuiven. Met behulp van grazers wordt het gebied verder vrij van gras en bomen gehouden.
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Yes, part of a completed jigsaw puzzle of one of Andy Warhol's infamous soup cans. Just the word gives it away.
Altadena, California
I am loving gathering a bunch of stuff from the polytunnel and immediately chopping and serving. Kohlrabi, a couple of types of lettuce, rocket, courgette flowers. radish and courgette.
The Bug Club - Vegetable Garden
