View allAll Photos Tagged Creativecommons,
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported License. If you wish to license them for commercial purposes, want to purchase prints or are interested in commissioning me to take photos, please send me a Flickr mail or visit my website, www.memoriesbymike.zenfolio.com/, for contact information. Thanks.]
Towers of Rosenborg Castle
The clouds were lit up orange from citylights. I dialed the colors a bit trying to get a spooky look.
Did I succeed? I think I like it right now, but not sure if I still like it in a few day?... :-)
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.
Raspberry blackout cake. loads of home grown raspberries (red and yellow) in this cake!
And plum jam in the cake mix too.
Andres Photo is licensed under a Creative Commons Reconocimiento-NoComercial-SinObraDerivada 3.0 Unported License
In this NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope Picture of the Week, Hubble has once again lifted the veil on a famous — and frequently photographed — supernova remnant: the Veil Nebula. This nebula is the remnant of a star roughly 20 times as massive as the Sun that exploded about 10 000 years ago. Situated about 2400 light-years away in the constellation Cygnus, this photogenic nebula made an appearance as the Picture of the Week previously in 2021.
This view combines images taken in three different filters by Hubble’s Wide Field Camera 3 instrument, highlighting emission from hydrogen, sulphur and oxygen atoms. This image shows just a small fraction of the Veil Nebula; if you could see the entire nebula without the aid of a telescope, it would be as wide as six full Moons placed side by side. Look in the sidebar of this page to see this image superimposed on its location in the sky, and try zooming out to compare the size of the full nebula!
Although this image captures the Veil Nebula at just a single point in time, it will help researchers understand how the supernova remnant has evolved over decades. Combining this snapshot with Hubble observations from 1994 will reveal the motion of individual knots and filaments of gas over that span of time, enhancing our understanding of this stunning nebula.
[Image Description: A colourful, glowing nebula that reaches beyond the top and bottom of the image. It is made of translucent clouds of gas: wispy and thin with hard edges in some places, and puffy and opaque in others. Blue, red and yellow colours mix together, showing light emitted by different types of atoms in the hot gas. Bright and pointlike stars are scattered across the nebula. The background is black.]
CREDIT
ESA/Hubble & NASA, R. SankritIn this NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope Picture of the Week, Hubble has once again lifted the veil on a famous — and frequently photographed — supernova remnant: the Veil Nebula. This nebula is the remnant of a star roughly 20 times as massive as the Sun that exploded about 10 000 years ago. Situated about 2400 light-years away in the constellation Cygnus, this photogenic nebula made an appearance as the Picture of the Week previously in 2021.
This view combines images taken in three different filters by Hubble’s Wide Field Camera 3 instrument, highlighting emission from hydrogen, sulphur and oxygen atoms. This image shows just a small fraction of the Veil Nebula; if you could see the entire nebula without the aid of a telescope, it would be as wide as six full Moons placed side by side. Look in the sidebar of this page to see this image superimposed on its location in the sky, and try zooming out to compare the size of the full nebula!
Although this image captures the Veil Nebula at just a single point in time, it will help researchers understand how the supernova remnant has evolved over decades. Combining this snapshot with Hubble observations from 1994 will reveal the motion of individual knots and filaments of gas over that span of time, enhancing our understanding of this stunning nebula.
[Image Description: A colourful, glowing nebula that reaches beyond the top and bottom of the image. It is made of translucent clouds of gas: wispy and thin with hard edges in some places, and puffy and opaque in others. Blue, red and yellow colours mix together, showing light emitted by different types of atoms in the hot gas. Bright and pointlike stars are scattered across the nebula. The background is black.]
Credits: ESA/Hubble & NASA, R. Sankrit; CC BY 4.0
The Nieuport 24 was a French biplane fighter aircraft during World War I designed by Gustave Delage as a replacement for the successful Nieuport 17. Wikipedia
Top speed: 187 km/h
Range: 249 km
Wingspan: 8.18 m
Weight: 354 kg
Length: 5.88 m
First flight: 1917
Engine type: Rotary engine
Jezero crater, the touchdown site for NASA’s Mars 2020 Perseverance rover, in context of its surroundings. It is situated between highlands, an impact basin, a volcanic province and an ancient river delta. The dark bluish-black areas are layers of ancient volcanic ash that is widely dispersed by the wind, often piling up into impressive dune fields.
This image was created from the red, green and blue channels of the High Resolution Stereo Camera on ESA’s Mars Express, combined with high-resolution data from its nadir channel, which is directed perpendicular to the surface of Mars.
The high resolution of the data processed for this image allows for greater enlargement, enabling a closer look at individual details of the landscape. Small gaps in the image mosaic were interpolated.
Find out more about Jezero crater and its surrounds, here.
Credits: ESA/DLR/FU Berlin; CC BY-SA 3.0 IGO.
All rights reserved - Tous droits réservés
Place : Jardins de l'Évêché, Limoges, France
christinelebrasseur.blogspot.com/
Darckr by Laurent Henocque - More photos - DNA - Ipernity - MySpace - YouTube - Twitter - JPGMag - Facebook - Google
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
You have permission to use this texture freely when you incorporate them into your non-profit artwork.
It would be great if you could post a SMALL version of any images you create using this texture as a comment here.
The subject of this NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope Picture of the Week is NGC 1637, a spiral galaxy located 38 million light-years from Earth in the constellation Eridanus.
This image comes from an observing programme dedicated to studying star formation in nearby galaxies. Stars form in cold, dusty gas clouds that collapse under their own gravity. As young stars grow, they heat their nurseries through starlight, winds, and powerful outflows. Together, these factors play a role in controlling the rate at which future generations of stars form.
Evidence of star formation is scattered all around NGC 1637, if you know where to look. The galaxy’s spiral arms are dotted with what appear to be pink clouds, many of which are accompanied by bright blue stars. The pinkish colour comes from hydrogen atoms that have been excited by ultraviolet light from young, massive stars. This contrasts with the warm yellow glow of the galaxy’s centre, which is home to a densely packed collection of older, redder stars.
The stars that set their birthplaces aglow are comparatively short-lived, and many of these stars will explode as supernovae just a few million years after they’re born. In 1999, NGC 1637 played host to a supernova, pithily named SN 1999EM, that was lauded as the brightest supernova seen that year. When a massive star expires as a supernova, the explosion outshines its entire home galaxy for a short time. While a supernova marks the end of a star’s life, it can also jump start the formation of new stars by compressing nearby clouds of gas, beginning the stellar lifecycle anew.
[Image Description: A spiral galaxy filling the view. Its disc is filled with bright red spots where stars are forming, dark reddish threads of dust that obscure light, and bluish glowing areas where older stars are concentrated. It has a large, glowing yellow oval area at the centre, from which two spiral arms wind through the galaxy’s disc. The bottom side of the disc is rounded while the top side is somewhat squared-off.]
Credits: ESA/Hubble & NASA, D. Thilker; CC BY 4.0
This view may resemble a snowy scene observed from an airplane flying over Earth’s mountain ranges, but it is in fact a spectacular scene captured by the CaSSIS camera onboard ESA’s ExoMars Trace Gas Orbiter, or TGO, as it flew over the ice-coated Korolev crater on 21 August 2019.
Korolev is an 80 km-wide crater in the northern polar regions of Mars that contains a massive ice sheet in its centre, the third largest exposed ice sheet on Mars, after its polar caps. The beauty of this ice sheet was captured in its entirety in a stunning mosaic of images taken by the HRSC camera on ESA’s Mars Express over the course of its 15-year – and counting – odyssey at the Red Planet.
TGO also captured a beautiful slice of Korolev crater in April 2018, which was one of the first images the spacecraft sent back to Earth after arriving in its science orbit around Mars.
In the image presented here, the CaSSIS camera reveals the detail of the crater’s south-eastern wall, which was illuminated at sunrise during the start of summer in the northern hemisphere. The walls of the craters at this latitude get fewer hours of sunlight on average throughout the year, so they have permanent deposits of water ice. In addition, at this time of year, carbon dioxide ice is still present on the surface left over from the seasonal cap that covers the polar regions during winter, contributing to the appearance of snow-covered mountain peaks.
Compare with this image taken in the same region a few months later, after much of the carbon dioxide ice has receded.
The image is centred at 164.90ºE/72.02ºN and was taken on 21 August 2019. The scale is indicated on the image.
Credits: ESA/Roscosmos/CaSSIS, CC BY-SA 3.0 IGO
No awards... Merci :)
.
.
All rights reserved - Tous droits réservés
Model : Ludivine
Christine Lebrasseur - Photographe
French Website / Site en français
This image features IC 3476, a dwarf galaxy that lies about 54 million light-years from Earth in the constellation Coma Berenices. Whilst this image does not look very dramatic — if we were to anthropomorphise the galaxy, we might say it looks almost serene — the actual physical events taking place in IC 3476 are highly energetic. In fact, the little galaxy is undergoing a process known as ram pressure stripping, which is driving unusually high levels of star formation within regions of the galaxy itself.
We tend to associate the letters ‘ram’ with the acronym RAM, which refers to Random Access Memory in computing. However, ram pressure has a totally distinct definition in physics: it is the pressure exerted on a body when it moves through some form of fluid, due to the overall resistance of the fluid. In the case of entire galaxies experiencing ram pressure, the galaxies are the ‘bodies’ and the intergalactic or intracluster medium (the dust and gas that permeates the space between galaxies, and for the latter the spaces between galaxies in clusters) is the ‘fluid’.
Ram pressure stripping occurs when the ram pressure results in gas being stripped from the galaxy. This stripping away of gas can lead to a reduction in the level of star formation, or even its complete cessation, as gas is absolutely key to the formation of stars. However, the ram pressure can also cause other parts of the galaxy to be compressed, which can actually boost star formation. This is what seems to be taking place in IC 3476: there seems to be absolutely no star formation going on at the edge of the galaxy bearing the brunt of the ram pressure stripping, but then star formation rates within deeper regions of the galaxy seem to be markedly above the average.
[Image Description: A dwarf spiral galaxy. The centre is not particularly bright and is covered by some dust, while the outer disc and halo wrap around as if swirling water. Across the face of the galaxy, an arc of brightly glowing spots marks areas where new stars are being formed. The galaxy is surrounded by tiny, distant galaxies on a dark background.]
Credits: ESA/Hubble & NASA, M. Sun; CC BY 4.0
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.
Every street has paper lanterns, some more than others. These were on one of the side streets near Senso-Ji.
Cette création par Tim Manteau est mise à disposition selon les termes de la licence Creative Commons Paternité-Pas d'Utilisation Commerciale-Pas de Modification 2.0 France.
L'opéra revisité sur deux roues. Mobs customisées pour une corrida mécanique, au son de guitares endiablées sous les "olés" de la foule.
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!
When the rain is over you can get very nice pictures playing with light and the remains of water.
Licencia (cc) creative commons by-sa
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported License. If you wish to license them for commercial purposes, want to purchase prints or are interested in commissioning me to take photos, please send me a Flickr mail or visit my website, www.memoriesbymike.zenfolio.com/, for contact information. Thanks.]
It is definitely the weather for our wood burning stove.
The BBC weather says it will be minus 7 tonight which is very cold for us.
Candid Random Kid with Small Wet Mangy Cute Dog- Hempstead, Long Island- Seen during a Local Immigrants Rights & Economic Justice Protest March
creative commons by marfis75
Twitter: @marfis75
License: cc-by-sa
you are free to share, adapt - attribution: Credits to "marfis75 on flickr"
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
texture by ghostbones:
www.flickr.com/photos/ghostbones/2438522659/in/pool-textu...
and myself:
www.flickr.com/photos/spiritual_marketplace/2607060301/in...
Sometimes you just have to change perspective. THese beauties were growing in northern New Medico along the upper Pecos river.
ALL RIGHTS ARE RESERVED by Gustavo Osmar Santos Copyright © 2015 is licensed under a Creative Commons Reconocimiento-NoComercial-SinObraDerivada 3.0 Unported License.Creado a partir de la obra en gusossantos.blogspot.com
Bees going mad on this today.
Easy to see big pollen load - yellow.
For my Honey bees on named flowers set
And will also go on the botanically sorted spreadsheet at:
docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1-_uJANb_oKgIZLEvm0mFjYq3W...
All rights reserved - Tous droits réservés
Model : Léane
Make-up : Emmanuelle Legrain
Hairstyle : Jessica Chatelain