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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.
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.
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
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Sometimes it is good to play. Been a busy day and so had a little fun before retiring. Captured this just before the rain arrived - was suppose to be getting the washing off the line! Anyhow, haven't had much time for Flickr today so will get back on it tomorrow. Off to bed for now though to read the odd page of 'The Innocent Man' by John Grisham. I have read it before but it deserves a second outing.
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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)
I was taking Remy for a walk and of course scanning the leaves for caterpillars. I spotted a tiny bit of "debris" on a maple leaf. Of course I have to check out anything that looks out of place and sure enough it was a tiny instar of a "Nematocampa resistaria" Horned Spanworm! One of the Filament Bearers they are an amazing and beautiful caterpillar! Ellicott City, Howard County, MD
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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.