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Cloudy Shor Kul, Eastern Pamirs, Tajikistan
The Pamirs are by far the most beautiful place I've been to, leaving the Spiti Valley at a distant second place. The new ranking for my most beautiful places is now :
1°) The Pamirs in Tajikistan
2°) The Spiti Valley in India
3°) Sinai in Egypt
Edited Hubble Space Telescope image of the cloudy spiral galaxy NGC 1022. Inverted grayscale variant.
Original caption: This peculiar galaxy, beautifully streaked with tendrils of reddish dust, is captured here in wonderful detail by the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope. The galaxy is known as NGC 1022, and is officially classified as a barred spiral galaxy. You can just about make out the bar of stars in the centre of the galaxy in this image, with swirling arms emerging from its ends. This bar is much less prominent than in some of the galaxy’s barred cousins and gives the galaxy a rather squat appearance; but the lanes of dust that swirl throughout its disc ensure it is no less beautiful. Hubble observed this image as part of a study into one of the Universe’s most notorious residents: black holes. These are fundamental components of galaxies, and are thought to lurk at the hearts of many — if not all — spirals. In fact, they may have quite a large influence over their cosmic homes. Studies suggest that the mass of the black hole sitting at a galaxy’s centre is linked with the larger-scale properties of the galaxy itself. However, in order to learn more, we need observational data of a wider and more diverse range of galaxies — something Hubble’s study aims to provide.
"In the sky, there is no distinction of east and west; people create distinctions out of their own minds and then believe them to be true.” - Gautam Budhha
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Quiet cloudy morning. The gold building in the center distance is where the street our guest house was on meets the main street. The house is about 100 yards to the right out of sight from that corner.