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“Find beauty not only in the thing itself but in the pattern of the shadows, the light and dark which that thing provides.” ~ Junichiro Tanizaki
So much beauty in something that gets less and less common.
Illuminated seed filaments (papus) from below against a dark background.
A milkweed seed's anatomy features a central, flat, brown seed with a distinct tuft of fluffy, white, silky filaments called a coma or papus attached to one end. This coma acts as a natural parachute, catching the wind to disperse the seed for reproduction. Inside the seed is the plant embryo, enclosed by a seed coat. Now don't ya feel edjumacated?
Inverted view of the 1 million km long solar filament
Lunt LS60, ASI120mm
AS!2, Registax 6, PS CS 6 inverted Ha
Blown around until it became entangled among the hips and thorns of a climbing rose this tuft of plastic filaments caught my eye early this morning.
Feeling temporarily disillusionedwith LEDs, I wired up a set of tiny filament bulbs and waved them about. But then I added some dim yellow LEDs too.
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Natural color composition from the emission of ionized elements.
This palette is very close to a visual spectrum.
As usually, I reprocessed the two frame mosaic of Cygnus filaments. The color balance and stars are better now and more details are visible. This area in Western Cygnus is rarely imaged since it has a low surface brightness and more attractive targets are nearby.
The G64 filament seen by ESA’s Herschel space observatory. With a total mass of about 5000 solar masses, this huge but slender structure of gas and dust extends over about 170 light-years in length, while its diameter is only about 9 light-years.
Cooler gas and dust is seen in red and yellow, with temperatures as low as –256ºC. In the densest and coolest clumps, the seeds of new generations of stars are taking shape. A brighter clump of matter is visible at the right tip of the wispy thread. This filament is about 12 000 light-years away.
The image is a composite of the wavelengths of 70 microns (blue), 160 microns (green) and 350 microns (red) and spans about 0.66x0.40º. The image is oriented with northeast towards the left of the image and southwest towards the right.
Credit: ESA/Herschel/PACS/SPIRE/Ke Wang et al. 2015
How? Each filament has the perfect strip of white so that the whole becomes a stacked dot, like decorative fore-edge book pages or the threads of woven cloth. Weightless too, imperceptible.
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(112 pictures in 2012 #35 Spots or Dots)
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For the Macro Mondays' theme - Twist. A twisted tungsten filament in a small flashlight incandescent bulb.
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There are lots of dim gas filaments at west side of the Cygnus nebula complex. I have spent this Autumn season by shooting them. Due to close proximity of brighter and more eye catching nebulae in Cygnus, this area is not very commonly imaged.