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Orsotriaena medus
Common: Nigger, Smooth-eyed Bush-brown
Orsotriaena is a monotypic genus of the Satyrinae, or the Browns. The genus has only one species, Orsotriaena medus which is found in Asia and Australia. In India, the butterfly has historically been called the Nigger, but renamed in Australian faunal works to the socially acceptable name of Smooth-eyed Bush-brown.
Orsotriaena medus is a medium-sized butterfly with wingspan of 45 to 55mm. The butterfly is dark brown above with a thin marginal pale border with the upper hindwing having a thin submarginal line. There is no eye-spot on the upperside of the wings. Below, the butterfly has a white discal band which runs across both wings. It has five ocelli beloe - two equal-sized eye-spots on the underside of the forewing, an apical ring enclosing two ocelli and two separate ocelli in the tornal region.
O. medus is very common in the rains up to an altitude of 1600m. A shy, weak-flying insect, it stays low amongst the undergrowth, and when disturbed flies for a short distance before settling down. The butterfly basks in the sun, often with its body aligned parallel to the sun's rays.
Taken at Kadavoor, Kerala, India
Description: In Chandra's X-ray image (blue) of RCW 108, over 400 sources of X-ray light are seen. Many of these X-ray sources are young stars undergoing massive flaring just as our Sun did billions of years ago. The infrared Spitzer image (red and orange) shows the clouds of dust and gas of this region. The bright knot just to the left of center is where a cluster of young stars is hidden behind a dense cloud of molecular hydrogen. Intense radiation from massive stars in another nearby cluster, just out of view to the left of this image, is destroying the cloud that contains this cluster. Ultimately, this will trigger a new generation of stars to form in RCW 108.
Creator/Photographer: Chandra X-ray Observatory
The Chandra X-ray Observatory, which was launched and deployed by Space Shuttle Columbia on July 23, 1999, is the most sophisticated X-ray observatory built to date. The mirrors on Chandra are the largest, most precisely shaped and aligned, and smoothest mirrors ever constructed. Chandra is helping scientists better understand the hot, turbulent regions of space and answer fundamental questions about origin, evolution, and destiny of the Universe. The images Chandra makes are twenty-five times sharper than the best previous X-ray telescope. The Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory controls Chandra science and flight operations from the Chandra X-ray Center in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
Medium: Chandra telescope x-ray
Date: 2008
Persistent URL: chandra.harvard.edu/photo/2008/rcw108/
Repository: Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory
Gift line: X-ray: NASA/CXC/CfA/S.Wolk et al.
Accession number: rcw108
This resident school of Striped large eye Bream (Gnathodentex aureolineatus) seems to be enjoying photographers.
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Description: About 2,400 massive stars in the center of 30 Doradus are producing intense radiation and powerful winds as they blow off material. Multimillion-degree gas detected in X-rays (blue) by the Chandra X-ray Observatory comes from shock fronts formed by these stellar winds and by supernova explosions. This hot gas carves out gigantic bubbles in the surrounding cooler gas and dust shown here in infrared emission from the Spitzer Space Telescope (orange).
Creator/Photographer: Chandra X-ray Observatory
NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory, which was launched and deployed by Space Shuttle Columbia on July 23, 1999, is the most sophisticated X-ray observatory built to date. The mirrors on Chandra are the largest, most precisely shaped and aligned, and smoothest mirrors ever constructed. Chandra is helping scientists better understand the hot, turbulent regions of space and answer fundamental questions about origin, evolution, and destiny of the Universe. The images Chandra makes are twenty-five times sharper than the best previous X-ray telescope. NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Ala., manages the Chandra program for NASA's Science Mission Directorate in Washington. The Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory controls Chandra science and flight operations from the Chandra X-ray Center in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
Medium: Chandra telescope x-ray
Date: 2011
Image ID: 495
Persistent URL: chandra.harvard.edu/photo/2011/30dor/
Repository: Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory
Gift line: X-ray: NASA/CXC/PSU/L.Townsley et al.; Infrared: NASA/JPL/PSU/L.Townsley et al.
Shot at Landungsbrücken at the shore of the Elbe river in Hamburg. I took me a while to align the silhouette of the woman sitting on a bollard and gazing on the river with the glittering reflection of the sun on the water surface. The glare made manual focussing a pain in the ass, too.
Shot with Tamron SP 70-210 mm on crop camera at approx. 70 mm f/8-11
This image from ESA’s Mars Express shows a region of Mars known as Caralis Chaos, where copious water is thought to have once existed in the form of an ancient lake.
Numerous labels have been placed across the terrain, highlighting features and regions of note. Be sure to click on these labels to explore the landscape in detail!
This image comprises data gathered by Mars Express’s High Resolution Stereo Camera (HRSC) on 1 January 2024 (orbit 25235). It was created using data from the nadir channel, the field of view aligned perpendicular to the surface of Mars, and the colour channels of the HRSC. North is to the right. The ground resolution is approximately 15 m/pixel and the image is centred at about 38°S/177°E.
[Image description: This tan-coloured slice of ground is smoother to the left and becomes covered in small hills and mounds to the right. Wriggly, uneven ridges cut horizontally across the frame, while two prominent fault lines cut down vertically on the left and right. Large and small craters are peppered across the terrain. The worn-away boundaries of a once-colossal lakebed can be seen curving up and away from the bottom-centre to the top right; this skirts around the largest crater seen here, which sits in the middle of the picture encircled by rough, irregular valleys and channels.]
Credits: ESA/DLR/FU Berlin; CC BY-SA 3.0 IGO