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Rail Operations Group's 37601 'Persius' passes through Selly Oak with the 5Q91 Long Marston - Northampton EMD. 350114 was in tow, being returned from an interior refresh and external respray at Chrysalis Rail at Long Marston.
Just after sunset, this view from my west balcony shows the crescent moon with Venus down to the right and Antares, a bright star, off to the left forming a triangle in the sky.
The spiral galaxy appearing in this week’s Hubble Picture of the Week is named IC 3225. It looks remarkably as if it’s been launched from a cannon, speeding through space like a comet with a tail of gas streaming from its disc behind it. The scenes that galaxies appear in from Earth’s point of view are fascinating; many seem to hang calmly in the emptiness of space as if hung from a string, while others star in much more dynamic situations!
Appearances can be deceiving with objects so far from Earth — IC 3225 itself is about 100 million light-years away — but the galaxy’s location suggests some causes for this active scene, because IC 3225 is one of over 1300 members of the Virgo galaxy cluster. The density of galaxies in the Virgo cluster creates a rich field of hot gas between them, the so-called ‘intracluster medium’, while the cluster’s extreme mass has its galaxies careening around its centre in some very fast orbits. Ramming through the thick intracluster medium, especially close to the cluster’s centre, places an enormous ‘ram pressure’ on the moving galaxies that strips gas out of them as they go.
IC 3225 is not so close to the cluster core right now, but astronomers have deduced that it has undergone this ram pressure stripping in the past. The galaxy looks as though it’s been impacted by this: it is compressed on one side and there has been noticeably more star formation on this leading edge, while the opposite end is stretched out of shape. Being in such a crowded field, a close call with another galaxy could also have tugged on IC 3225 and created this shape. The sight of this distorted galaxy is a reminder of the incredible forces at work on astronomical scales, which can move and reshape even entire galaxies!
[Image Description: A spiral galaxy. Its disc glows visibly from the centre, and has faint dust threaded through it. A spiral arm curves around the left edge of the disc and is noticeably more dense with bright blue spots, where there are hot and new stars, than the rest. Opposite, the disc stretches out into a short tail where it covers a distant background galaxy. Around it, other distant galaxies and some nearby stars are visible.]
Credits: ESA/Hubble & NASA, M. Sun; CC BY 4.0
Pigeon Point Light Station casting a glow upon the Milky Way. A 15 sec. exposure. Still coming to terms with night sky photography, so this image is a little soft, but I still liked the imagery of the lighthouse "projecting" the night sky.
Me and my brother went on an adventure to find some abandoned WW2 tunnels and caves.. here's some collab shots we got on the way..
Harvest Moon over Rocky Hill, CT.
The clearest photo of the moon I've been able to take so far. All other attempts have cloud cover or the moon is tiny. The lighting around me must have been just right for the autofocus. I think if I'm well-lit, the moon comes out better than if it's dark around me. Taken at maximum zoom.
Like dew that dances on the tip of a leaf...
Dance on the edges of time....for life is brief.
Nishu Mathur, India
There is beauty and adventure in the commonplace
for those with eyes to see beyond.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Casa del Padre, Límite entre los Municipios José María Vargas, Lobatera, Michelena y Andrés Bello, Estado Táchira, Venezuela.
En Explore: 04-10-2008
Apsaras/celestial angels at the Ramgarh fort near Panchkula, Haryana in Northern India. 2015 visit.
Hindu architecture.
#AbFav_LATE_WINTER_✳️
The weather had been fierce the whole day, the wind winding and hounding around the house, pulling at everything, with rain lashing against the windows.
Here the sun sets at 6/7 now, so dark very early, it seemed like we'd never had a day, when I noticed a bit of golden sheen, I looked and this greeted me.
I grabbed my camera, opened the window and took the images.
We live on the side of a hill, it glides down into the Dale and climbs back up.
Never have I seen better and more beautiful skies to photograph than here in Yorkshire, especially in the late Autumn and late Winter.
It feels so textured and opulent, yet is so ephemeral, and never the same twice you shall see... awesome thought.
No manipulation, PURE!
Wish you a glorious day and thanx for your comments... M, (*_*)
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...while waiting for Spring...thanks to photography I can escape into the world of my imagination. Please view large format.
Fantasy Faire 2024
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Dress: Maya in sky pack (with color changing hud) from Poet’s Heart by Nim Darkheart. Maya fits a wide range of bodies; I show it in Lara. Poet’s Heart will be located in the Avalon region, created by Worldbuilder and Fallen Gods creator Alia Baroque.
Fairelands Lore:
The beautiful Lunafae Blessing Stone featured in the photos was created by Fairelands Worldbuilder Sharni Azalee for her gorgeous region in the 2018 Fairelands. I do love this creation and have had it out on my parcel since 2018.
The lovely animated wings are also a Poet Heart creation…from the PH “Insecta” fatpack from the 2020 Fairelands. I show the wings only from that fatpack (which includes a dress, hat, leggings) in “Dragonfly.”
Celestial Statue: Fantasy Statue Princess Sun-Moon from Micsha Store by Anima Fredda Lemon. Included in this weekend’s Secret Sale. maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Mountains%20of%20Starlight...