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Just over a month into its mission, NASA's Parker Solar Probe has returned first-light data from each of its four instrument suites. These early observations – while not yet examples of the key science observations Parker Solar Probe will take closer to the Sun – show that each of the instruments is working well. The instruments work in tandem to measure the Sun’s electric and magnetic fields, particles from the Sun and the solar wind, and capture images of the environment around the spacecraft.
This image shows the first-light data from Parker Solar Probe's WISPR (Wide-field Imager for Solar Probe) instrument suite. The right side of this image — from WISPR's inner telescope — has a 40-degree field of view, with its right edge 58.5 degrees from the Sun's center. The bright object slightly to the right of the image's center is Jupiter. The left side of the image is from WISPR’s outer telescope, which has a 58-degree field of view and extends to about 160 degrees from the Sun. It shows the Milky Way, looking at the galactic center. There is a parallax of about 13 degrees in the apparent position of the Sun as viewed from Earth and from Parker Solar Probe.
Image credit: First Light Data for NASA's Parker Solar Probe
A collection of green objects from around my studio.
And...for a closer peek at these green objects. Enjoy!
it's well past the season when we need fans to keep cool. Even though today's high was 12 degrees C, which is "warm" for this time of year, it's already cooled down to 4 C and the high tomorrow will be 2 C. I guess I really should stop procrastinating and put it away. HSoS!
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Trajan's Markets comprise a well-preserved crescent of shops, arcades and administrative offices, built into the side of the Quirinal Hill in Rome. The background shot was taken from the Foro Romano.
Today the Hereios of the We’re Here! Group are shooting suspected Flying Saucers.
Nikon F3
I’ve carried it around and stared through it’s lens for a number of years now, but like me it was made in the 80s, along with neoliberalism, Zimbabewe and Chernobyl. The shutter crack has bitten off moments, often prosaic, unfocussed or overexposed; but I am always standing close behind it, one eye shut. Watching. A monologue about the analogue, a homage to film, a diatribe against digital – these themes write themselves (and have been written), but the object remains uncelebrated. Objects have been sentimentalised since people shaped the first rocks. Others have been worshipped. So why break the mould – I fucking love this object.
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Thoughts - comments - critiques - always welcome
In fact the found object is a deer skull which I found in the middle of a wood and arranged on a decomposing tree stump.
Have a Delicious & Merry Christmas Good-Day!
Jump out of the window if you are the object of passion.
Flee it if you feel it. Passion goes, boredom remains.
- Coco Chanel
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Just a plate of hot appetizers. Ceisarea,
Mediterrenean shore, Ceisarea beach-bar.
Israel, 30 September, 2006
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Once again I find myself going down the wrong way on a one way street. Sigh this does happen to me, more than I admit. I almost passed this old plantation home. Parking illegally of course, I hopped out and starting snapping away. The home is for sale. I was drawn to the old oak tree to my right. It was huge and magnificant looking over to the branches I couldn't help but feel for a moment I was back in time. Moss hanging off with long branches hovering just above the roof, I thought it framed the house giving a feeling of really old, which I imagine they are by about a hundred years.
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To me EXPLORE was like a Unicorn full of mystery remaining on of the great "unsolved mysteries" of flickr. Like on an adventure to seek Bigfoot or a Giant Panda. This seemed so out of reach for me. I'm a simple girl who was given my first Fisher Price 110mm camera at the age of five and I have been snapping away ever since. From the bottom of my heart thank you for the delightful comments, support and favs.
Powerhouse Museum, Ultimo
"1001 Remarkable Objects presents an unexpected juxtaposition of objects in 25 rooms that lead us on a journey across time and memory. The selection includes objects that have never been exhibited until now alongside much loved Powerhouse Collection icons."
‘We rejected the nomenclature of “treasures” or “masterpieces” and instead determined all choices must be in some way “remarkable” – whether by virtue of rarity, visual appeal, social history or an ability to invoke wonder.’ Leo Schofield AM
Educated as a biologist and natural scientist, herman de vries has been working for more than sixty years on an uncommonly versatile oeuvre in which art, science and philosophy are juxtaposed with the reality of the world. His focus stems from natural processes and phenomena, presented by him as the primary, physical reality in which human existence is rooted. de vries gathers, orders, isolates and displays objects from nature, directing our attention to both the oneness and the diversity of the world surrounding us. The strength and richness of de vries’ oeuvre stems from the biotope that he has developed in his hometown of Eschenau (Germany)and the places he visited during his travels, including Venice.
The open, transparent and spatially poetic character of the Dutch pavilion in the Giardini in Venice built by Rietveld in 1954 symbolizes the rational and optimistically progressive way of thinking that prevailed during the first half of the Twentieth Century. The work of herman de vries, made from organic and natural materials counters this notion and attests to the idea that processes and phenomena in nature are too complex to explain in a rational manner.
The title of the exhibition to be all ways to be, expresses the idea that the experience of and reflection on human existence takes many divergent paths, none of which is superior or inferior to the other. Experienced through the eye, ear, body and nose, the works within the pavilion, the Giardini and at different locations within the Venetian Lagoon, will question existing definitions and positions with regard to nature and culture.