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Webb farm house in the new section of the Longwood Garden Meadow. Processed in Aquarella and details added in Lightroom 5
A recent NS rock train with a BAYL crew rolls through the bucolic Lower Alabama countryside on its way to Dothan, AL and thence to Panama City, FL. The power would later return to Hilton, GA on the BAYL Chat job.
Night traffic on the Webb Bridge over the Yarra River
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Part of the Meadow at Longwood Gardens in Kennett Square, Pennsylvania, the historic Webb Farmhouse has stood on the property since the mid-1700s. Inside there are two galleries, one showcasing the beauty of the Meadow throughout the changing seasons and the second sharing the story of the people who have inhabited and influenced the land since the Lenni Lenape.
Tonight was a comedy of photography errors. The kids were annoying each other as they do a month into the school holidays. I was planning on slipping out of the house for some peace and quiet and take some photos. The suggestion from my wife was to take one of them with me. Don't get me wrong, they are awesome to spend time with, but it did throw my routine out the window. I wasted 1/2 and hour scrounging around for my old camera and tripod for my daughter to have a play with. After an hour-long drive and walk. we got to the location. Nasty looking black clouds filled the sky. Our sunset photography session was looking grim. Then, disaster struck. I left my fully charged battery in the charger at home, the battery in the camera was down to 5%! Not much good for long exposers. I ended up abandoning to new R6 and commandeered the old T7 Rebel for myself. I did manage to get a couple of good shots before the battery died all together. When I got home, I immediately went to grab the fully charged battery. As it turns out I did put the charged battery in my camera bag earlier in the day, I just put it in the wrong pocket.
As for the photography, the clouds cleared 20 or so minutes into the Blue Hour. It was only then that we got a short burst of colour in the sky.
With the Honoring Veterans unit now trailing, the BAYL Chat job with a plain SD60E leading, heads back to Hilton, GA.
Did you know the James Webb Telescope mirrors were first tested in #NASAMarshall's X-ray and Cryogenic facility. The XRCF at Marshall is the world's largest x-ray optical test facility and provides evaluation and readiness testing for advanced telescope mirrors, video guidance systems, and other space structures in thermal environments to 20 Kelvin. Here is the James Webb Telescope Mirror Array at the XRCF.
Image Credit: NASA
#NASAMarshall #jwst #jameswebbspacetelescope #space #telescope
Trotters, North Dakota
Wikipedia:
Trotters is an unincorporated community in Golden Valley County, North Dakota, United States. Trotters is located on North Dakota Highway 16, 28.3 miles (45.5 km) north of Beach. The community did not receive telephone service until 1972, and Highway 16, its only road, was paved in the 1980s.
Leonard Hall, who moved to Trotters in 1956, was the town's only resident for much of the twentieth century. Hall was the postmaster of the Trotters post office, which opened in 1904[3] and served area ranchers as far as 28 miles (45 km) away from Trotters, as few other post offices operated in the region.[5] The post office also served as the town's grocery store and gas station, and Hall lived in the back of the building. Two other buildings, a disused church and an empty abandoned structure, also stood in the town.[6] The post office closed in 1995 when Hall's poor health caused him to retire as postmaster.
its Spider season, lots of spiders about still, I'm always going through spider webs when walking in the woods, caught this one before she ran off under the leaf
a fist size agate turned out much better than I hoped for, though not great in respect to colors - also from recent collecting north of Laredo, Texas.
Countdown to a new star ⏳
Hidden in the neck of this “hourglass” of light are the very beginnings of a new star — a protostar. The clouds of dust and gas within this region are only visible in infrared light, the wavelengths that Webb specializes in.
This protostar is a hot, puffy clump of gas that’s only a fraction of the mass of our Sun. As it draws material in, its core will compress, get hotter, and eventually begin nuclear fusion — creating a star!
See that dark line at the very center of the “hourglass”? That’s an edge-on view of a protoplanetary disk, or the disk of material being pulled into the star as it forms. It’s about the size of our solar system and may eventually clump into planets, giving us a window into our solar system’s history.
Light from the protostar is illuminating cavities in the dust and gas above and below its disk. (Think of flashlights pointing in opposite directions, each shining a cone of light.) The blue areas are where dust is thinnest, while orange represents thicker layers of dust.
Read more: www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/2022/nasa-s-webb-catches-fie...
Image credit: NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI
[Image description: An hourglass-shaped, multi-color cloud set against the black, starry background of space. This cloud of dust and gas is illuminated by light from a protostar, a star in the earliest stages of formation. The upper “bulb” of the hourglass is orange, while the lower “bulb” transitions from white to dark blue. Together, the two bulbs stretch out like butterfly wings turned 90 degrees to the side. Extending from the upper and lower bulbs are long, wispy filaments of color, looking almost like burning fire. In the center of the hourglass shape is a small, dark demarcation line. This line is an edge-on view of a protoplanetary disk, a disk of material being pulled into a star as it forms.]
Rock train enroute from the Bay Line-NS exchange at Hilton, GA to Dothan, AL and on to Panama City, FL.
A galactic panoramic
This multi-wavelength image combines eight colors of near-infrared light captured by Webb with three colors of ultraviolet and visible light from Hubble. It shows — in unprecedented detail and exquisite depth — a universe full of galaxies, many of which were previously unseen by Hubble or large ground-based telescopes.
While this shot is just a portion of what will be the complete wide field covered by this Webb program, it’s already unveiling wonders. The faintest objects here are about 1 billion times fainter than what can be seen with our eyes.
Image Credits: NASA, ESA, CSA, A. Pagan (STScI) & R. Jansen (ASU).
Science: R. Jansen, J. Summers, R. O'Brien, and R. Windhorst (Arizona State University); A. Robotham (ICRAR/UWA); A. Koekemoer (STScI); C. Willmer (UofA); and the PEARLS team
Image description: This image depicts a field of hundreds of galaxies of various shapes, colors and sizes. Most are small while a handful are somewhat larger. A few stars are also scattered across the image. Some have Webb’s characteristic 8-point diffraction spikes, while others have additional spikes due to a combination of image exposures.
Space isn’t always metal.
Here is Webb’s mid-infrared view of NGC 6822, a galactic neighbor with unusually low “metallicity.” This means it doesn’t have much in the way of elements heavier than hydrogen and helium.
Before the first generation of stars, everything had very low metallicity — stars had not yet created heavier elements. Studying a contemporary object with low metallicity, like this galaxy, can help us understand more about stars and dust in the early universe.
More: esawebb.org/images/potm2307a/
This image:
This view was captured by the the Near-InfraRed Camera (NIRCam), which shows the galaxy’s countless stars in incredible detail. Here, the dust and gas that pervade the galaxy are reduced to translucent red wisps, laying the stars bare for astronomical study. The power of Webb’s ice-cold infrared instruments and the incredible resolution of its primary mirror is necessary to examine stars hidden in dusty environments, and the results as shown here are spectacular. The brightest stars appear in pale blue and cyan colors in this image, colors which are assigned to the shortest wavelengths of light that NIRCam can detect: red and near infrared. The amount of light emitted by any star decreases at longer and longer wavelengths, towards the mid-infrared, so the stars that are more faint to NIRCam also appear more warmly coloured here. A bright blue orb to the lower left of the gas is particularly prominent: this is a globular cluster, packed with stars. This image has been cropped and downscaled from the full NIRCam resolution to match that of the MIRI image.
Image description: Image of galaxy NGC 6822 captured by Webb’s Near-Infrared Camera, or NIRCam. It shows a densely packed field of stars, mixed with swirls of red gas, on a black background. The stars come in a variety of shapes, sizes and colors. Most are white, but some are yellow or red. The smaller stars appear as dots, but larger stars have distinctive snowflake-like patterns. Two particularly prominent stars are located in the bottom right corner of the image.
With an engine on each end and buffer cars sandwiching the train, the Michigan Shore's day job has stopped to line the switch onto the old MR&N branch to Webb Chemical. Webb is one of the MS's biggest customers. Former Michigan Shore SW1200 #73, which had been repainted as MMRR #1216 about a year prior, was always a fun engine to catch puttering around Muskegon. As of 2021, it is currently down south somewhere working for G&W's Rail Link leasing arm.
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Have seen so many great pictures of this footbridge in Melbourne, thought I would try it myself. There was a bit of wind and the water was not 100% mirror and glassy still, but I was happy.
**Higher resolution is here: www.flickr.com/photos/nasawebbtelescope/52259221868/in/da... **
A star is born!
Behind the curtain of dust and gas in these “Cosmic Cliffs” are previously hidden baby stars, now uncovered by Webb. We know — this is a show-stopper. Just take a second to admire the Carina Nebula in all its glory: nasa.gov/webbfirstimages/
Webb’s new view gives us a rare peek into stars in their earliest, rapid stages of formation. For an individual star, this period only lasts about 50,000 to 100,000 years.
Image Description:
The image is divided horizontally by an undulating line between a cloudscape forming a nebula along the bottom portion and a comparatively clear upper portion. Speckled across both portions is a starfield, showing innumerable stars of many sizes. The smallest of these are small, distant, and faint points of light. The largest of these appear larger, closer, brighter, and more fully resolved with 8-point diffraction spikes. The upper portion of the image is blueish, and has wispy translucent cloud-like streaks rising from the nebula below. The orangish cloudy formation in the bottom half varies in density and ranges from translucent to opaque. The stars vary in color, the majority of which have a blue or orange hue. The cloud-like structure of the nebula contains ridges, peaks, and valleys – an appearance very similar to a mountain range. Three long diffraction spikes from the top right edge of the image suggest the presence of a large star just out of view.
Credits: NASA, ESA, CSA, and STScI
W Webb, Alabama
Webb is a town in Houston County, Alabama in the extreme southeast corner of the state. It is named for plantation owner B.F. Webb who settled in the area around 1890.
The area was sparsely populated unitl1899 when the Central of Georgia Railroad built a line on Webb’s land. Webb donated 23 acres for the construction of a depot.
The first post office opened in 1900. Two stores were built in the area, and Webb and his son began laying out a town and selling one-acre lots. A school was constructed in 1901. The town was incorporated in 1903.
A new four-room schoolhouse was constructed in 1909, but it burned and was replaced in 1935. On January 18, 1918, a tornado struck the town, killing two and damaging a number of structures. That same tornado killed nine people in nearby Cowarts, about 8 miles (13 km) southwest as the crow flies. A new water system was completed in 1965. In 1995, Webb built a new senior center. The Town of Webb had a population of 1,556 as of July 1, 2021.
One business in this town is Webb Paranormal Group. This is a group of paranormal researchers who wish to aid individuals and administrators of public sites by offering confidential paranormal research services at no charge. Some of the several services provided include the investigation to ascertain the source of the unexplained phenomena reported in homes, businesses, or public facilities, and to document evidence of paranormal activity and unexplained apparitions as needed on a case-by-case basis.