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This week in 2007, the space shuttle Atlantis, mission STS-117, landed at Edwards Air Force Base following the completion of a successful 14-day mission to the International Space Station. The primary mission objective was to deliver the second and third starboard truss segments, S3 and S4, and another pair of solar arrays to the station. Today, the Payload Operations Integration Center at NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center serves as "science central" for the space station, working 24/7, 365 days a year in support of the orbiting laboratory's scientific experiments. The NASA History Program is responsible for generating, disseminating, and preserving NASA’s remarkable history and providing a comprehensive understanding of the institutional, cultural, social, political, economic, technological and scientific aspects of NASA’s activities in aeronautics and space. For more pictures like this one and to connect to NASA’s history, visit the Marshall History Program’s webpage.
Image credit: NASA
(Updated on July 26,2025)
Looking north-northwest toward the High Falls of the Pigeon River.
In this region, this stream marks the boundary of the United States and Canada. Here it spills over a northeast-southwest-oriented dike of Mesoproterozoic diabase, a dark wall of highly resistant mafic igneous rock. Then it rushes down a canyon deeply incised into much softer shale, siltstone, and graywacke of the Paleoproterozoic Rove Formation. These sedimentary strata can be dimly discerned through the mist at lower left and right.
The tremendous visceral impact of the surging water and splashing spray is matched by the spectacle of geologic time presented at the High Falls. The Rove beds were deposited between 1.836 and 1.78 Ga ago in the Animikie Basin, a downwarped section of the Earth's crust linked to the Penokean mountain-building episode.
Then, at about 1.1 Ga and long after the lofty Penokean Mountains had been beveled flat by erosion, the magma that would become the diabase was injected into a large vertical fissure in the Rove. This occurred during the cataclysmic episode that created the Midcontinent Rift (MCR) and almost tore North America apart. While specialists still debate the details of its origin, the MCR formed in a time of crustal extension and thinning. Its massive outpourings of lava may also be linked to mantle-plume activity.
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''Immortals are never alien to one another.''
— Homer (The Odyssey)
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Die Geschichte von Kreta ist sehr bewegt
-Minoische Zeit etwa 3000 v. Chr. bis 13.Jh v Chr
-archaische Zeitalter : 6. bis zum 4. Jahrhundert
-Byzantinisches Reich (395–1204)und Sarazenenherrschaft (826–961)
- Venezianische Herrschaft (1204–1669)
- Osmanische Herrschaft (1669–1897)
- De-facto-Unabhängigkeit (1898–1913)
- Vereinigung mit Griechenland (seit 1913)
- Minoan-Mycenaean Crete(3000-1300 BC)
- Classical, Hellenistic, Roman, Byzantine and Arab Crete(395-1204)
- Venetian Crete (1205–1669)
-Ottoman Crete (1669–1898)
- Independence(1898-1913)
-Crete was unified with mainland Greece(1913)
(Wikipedia)
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Im Straßenbild sieht man noch Minarette und Moscheen , aber die die meisten wurden einem anderen Zweck zugeführt. Geschichte kann man aber nicht ausradieren und ein friedlicher, harmonischer Mix aus Religionen, Architekturen, Kulturen kann doch nur bereichern.
There are still minarets and mosques in the street, but most of them have been brought to a different purpose. But you can not eradicate history and a peaceful, harmonious mix of religions, architecture, cultures can only enrich
...this is one of my oldest images...but i relly love it...i never seen a scene like this before and after in berlin...she was in the park with her husband and kids...they played basketball...suddlendy she went up and through a few balls...luck that i have my camera with me...
...i hope some more people view and like it...
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Leica MP
Leica Elmarit 28mm f/2.8 III
Kodak T-Max 100
Ars Imago FD 1+39
6 min 20°C
Scan from negative film
I've always thought Wolf-Rayet stars are so cool: ever since Hubble captured the iconic image of WR 124 (seriously look it up if you haven't seen it, it's I've always Wolf-Rayet stars are so cool: ever since Hubble captured the iconic image of WR 124 (seriously look it up if you haven't seen it, it's unreal), I've had this fascination with them. WR 134 is one such star located around 6,000 light years away in the constellation of Cygnus: it's the bright one at the center of the frame. While it is only five times the radius of the sun, but it burns incredibly hot, at over 63,000 K (that's 113,000 degrees Fahrenheit), and is **400,000** times as luminous as the Sun.
This image comprises over 300 five minute exposures from my backyard, or about 28 hours of data, focused on ionized hydrogen and oxygen. What makes the nebula you see here is the incredibly strong solar wind and radiation Wolf-Rayet stars are known for colliding with the surrounding interstellar medium. To give you an idea of the kind of power we are talking about here, this frame is over 50 light years across, and I was fortunate enough to be able to see it from my backyard. Still blows my mind when I think of it.
I continued to work on new Pixinsight techniques in this image. I used Muredenoise for the first time on the linear Oiii master, since it still had a little bit of noise despite the lengthy integration time. I was very pleased with the results: I’ll be building it into the linear workflow from here on out. I also tried Adam Block's star de-emphasis technique where you create a mask with halos around all the stars, cores protected, and replace the halo pixels with median sky pixels from the local area. I love it: I think it gives results superior to simply erosion via MT alone. I had intended to capture some RGB data for the star colors, but I think it turned out ok without it. Plus, I'm eager to move on to the next target. Imaging nights have been few and far between with all the rain we have been having, plus the smoke from the wildfires out west, and I want to make the most of it. Clear skies everyone. Stay safe.
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OOUK CT8, Paracorr II, Moonlite focuser
ASI1600 Pro imaging cam, ASI 290 guide cam
Chroma 5nm Ha: 163 x 300"
Chroma 3nm Oiii: 172 x 300"
Skywatcher EQ6-R Pro
Pegasus Ultimate PowerBox2
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Processing
WBPP script to create masters
Deconvolution using External PSF and a black-clipped mask
DBE on Oiii
MureDenoise script on Oiii
HT to create non-linear Ha and Oiii
HDRMT on both
Pixelmath to combine:
R: iif(ha > .15, ha, (ha*.8)+(oiii*.2))
G: iif(ha > 0.5, 1-(1-oiii)*(1-(ha-0.5)), oiii *(ha+0.5))
B: iif(oiii > .1, oiii, (ha*.3)+(oiii*.2))
Adam Block's star de-emphasis technique (see his website, and my description above).
CurvesTransformation to adjust colors, keeping a star mask in place to protect stars from oversaturation
Imported to Photoshop and Lightroom, then adjusted colors to suit. Also selective, light application of Camera Raw filter with negative adjustments to texture and clarity as a smoothing application.
Oddly enough, I never really did any major denoising aside from MureDenoise at the beginning. I usually use TGVDenoise.
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SAN DIEGO (Dec. 8, 2016) The Navy's most technologically advanced surface ship, USS Zumwalt (DDG 1000), steams through San Diego Bay after the final leg of her three-month journey en route to her new homeport in San Diego. Zumwalt will now begin installation of combat systems, testing and evaluation and operation integration with the fleet. (U.S. Navy Photo by Petty Officer 2nd Class Zachary Bell/Released)
I am taking a different turn in photography.
I love incorporating art with photographs so now I play with my iPad and Laminar software.
Thus allows me to layer my bits and pieces hopefully into a more interesting landscape.
The Seagull Nebula, 6 hours of integration in SHO with Red Cat 51 Petzval telescope, ASI6200mm pro 61-megapixel full-frame Mono camera, on Paramount MX 6 mount, are 74 shots of which in Ha 19x300 seconds, in OIII 20x300 seconds and in SII 35x300 seconds, processing with Pixinsight and Photoshop. All data and shots were acquired with Sadr Astro Observatory. The Seagull Nebula (also known as Gum 2, sometimes mistakenly known by the abbreviation IC 2177) is a diffuse nebula visible on the border between the constellations Canis Major and Monoceros.
The nebula is located about 9 degrees northeast of the star Sirius and extends for two degrees in the NNE-SSW direction, in an area very rich in hot and blue stars, of recent generation, part of the stellar association Canis Major OB1 to which the initials Canis Major R1 was initially assigned due to the presence of numerous reflection nebulae. It can also be identified with good binoculars, in which it appears, especially with averted vision, as a slight elongated halo; Its shape is clearly visible in large telescopes and suggests the shape of a seagull in flight, hence its proper name.
From an astronomical point of view, the object is a large H II region in which star formation is active, as evidenced by the presence of numerous infrared and X-ray sources associated with young or forming stars; in its surroundings you can observe a large number of other small nebulae, some of which are reflection, often recognizable by their bluish color. There are also some open clusters in the area, such as NGC 2353.
To the east of this nebulous complex is another, less extensive nebulous complex, known as LBN 1036; Both are part of the same molecular nebula complex, whose shape is due to the explosion of a supernova that occurred about 500,000 years ago. The extension of the complex is about 100 parsecs.
Constructed in 1976, 388 George Street was designed by Australian architect John Andrews and formerly known as King George Tower.
Refurbished in 1998 and 2009, the 28-storey office building now has a new tower lobby and state-of-the-art end-of-trip facilities.
The refurbishment delivers 38,364 sqm of A-Grade commercial office space and 2,680 sqm of prime retail space to Sydney’s CBD.
The transformation includes new interconnecting stairs to enhance connectivity and collaboration. Upgrade works also included new ceilings, carpets, bathrooms, lift floor lobbies and on-floor amenities.
Design features include a stone concierge desk carved from solid blocks of London white marble, each weighing 200 kilograms.
The second and final stage of the project will see the delivery of a brand new FJMT-designed mixed-use pavilion to complete the project.
The mixed-use pavilion, due for delivery later this year, will add five-storeys of commercial and retail space, a rooftop bar and flagship retail stores.
“Not only have we added significant value by upgrading the existing commercial tower and developing the new retail podium on a dormant part of the site, we have also enhanced the site’s connectivity to George and King streets,” says Danny Poljak, executive vice president and co-head of Brookfield Properties.
“The development will completely transform this busy city corner and integrate with the newly pedestrianised George Street with a through-site link planned in the next stage linking to King Street.”
The project, which is being delivered by construction partner Multiplex, created over 250 jobs during construction.
Source: Property Council of Australia
IC 1396, 26 hours and 25 minutes of integration in SHO with Takahashi FSQ-106EDX4 106/382 telescope, f 3/6, QHY 600M Pro camera, are 317 shots of which in Ha 114x300 seconds, in OIII 101x300 seconds and in SII 102x300 seconds, processing with Pixinsight and Photoshop. All data and shots were captured with Telescope Live. IC 1396 is a very sparse open cluster associated with a large diffuse nebula, visible in the northern constellation Cepheus; it is located in a stretch of the Milky Way partially obscured by dense banks of dark nebulae, in a galactic region rich in neutral dust and gas with associated young and hot blue stars. The gases of the nebula complex of IC 1396 are excited by the stellar wind of the blue giant HD 206267, belonging to the Cepheus OB2 association. It seems that the expansion of this H II region created a large ring of molecular gas with a radius of about 12 parsecs, over a period of at least 3 million years. The ring structure extends for about 3° and is surrounded by a large number of dark blood cells, inside which the formation of new stars probably takes place due to compression by ionization, the shock wave front of stellar winds and radiation pressure; The largest blood cells are located on the northwestern side of the nebula region. In the eighties, 32 globules were identified, which received a numerical designation from 1 to 32 with the prefix GRS (Globules of Radial Systems); four radial systems of globules have been identified near IC 1396, while one of these is centered exactly on the nebula. Among the blood cells there is also the famous structure known as the Elephant trunk (see B 142). In the infrared, on the other hand, research has been conducted for the localization of young stellar objects associated with blood cells; It was thus discovered that only six sources associated with globules have a structure and luminosity such that they could have been caused by external heating, while most of these would not be related to star formation phenomena. In 2005, through a near-infrared study, 25 blood cells were identified, of which four had not been reported in the SIMBAD catalog; For all but four blood cells, it was possible to determine the mass, while it was not possible to measure the diameter for seven of them. Five globules contain a rich population of objects with reddened light, probably stars in formation; These five globules have the highest extinction rate, which would suggest a relationship between the intensity of star formation activity and the mass of the globules themselves. In blood cells with the smallest mass, star formation is often believed to be influenced by the radiation pressure of a bright star nearby; in a study conducted on one of these, illuminated by the bright blue giant HD 206267, a link with the distance of this star was highlighted, suggesting that evaporation due to photoionization affects the distribution of the mass of the blood cell around the blue giant. The influence of the star is given by the compression of the gases by the radiation pressure.