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Very frosty here this morning and brilliant sunshine. I love to take the camera for a walk on mornings like this.
for a scatterscape ...for Webnesday
Altered Images - Beckoning Strings
Ca bouge, quand on Quitte Saint-Malo avec ces vagues là . . .
Alors c'est un peut FLOU . . .
Un Flou pour "1 mois, 1 thème 2016".
Merci Luc,
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Merci pour vos visites et vos commentaires.
Ce(tte) œuvre est mise à disposition selon les termes de la Licence Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International.
A spectacular head-on collision between two galaxies, known as Arp 143, has fueled the unusual triangular-shaped star-formation frenzy as captured by the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope.
The interacting galaxy duo Arp 143 contains the distorted, star-forming spiral galaxy NGC 2445, at right, along with its less flashy companion, NGC 2444, at left. Their frenzied collision takes place against the tapestry of distant galaxies, of which some can be seen through the interacting pair.
Astronomers suggest that the two galaxies passed through each other, igniting the uniquely shaped firestorm of star formation in NGC 2445, where thousands of stars are bursting into life. This galaxy is awash with new stars because it is rich in gas, the raw material from which stars are made. However, it hasn’t yet escaped the gravitational clutches of its partner at left. The pair is waging a cosmic tug-of-war, which NGC 2444 appears to be winning. That galaxy has pulled gas from NGC 2445, forming the oddball triangle of newly minted stars.
NGC 2444 is also responsible for yanking strands of gas from its partner, stoking the streamers of young, blue stars that appear to form a bridge between the two galaxies. These streamers are among the first in what appears to be a wave of star formation that started on the galaxy’s outskirts and continued inward. Researchers estimate the streamer stars were born between 50 million and 100 million years ago. But these infant stars are being left behind as NGC 2445 continues to pull slowly away from NGC 2444.
Stars no older than one million to two million years old are forming closer to the centre of NGC 2445. Hubble’s keen vision reveals some individual stars, the brightest and most massive in the galaxy. Most of the brilliant blue clumps are groupings of stars and the pink blobs are glowing gas clouds enshrouding young, massive star clusters.
Although most of the action is happening in NGC 2445, it doesn’t mean the other member of the interacting pair has escaped unscathed. The gravitational tussle has stretched NGC 2444 into an odd shape, yanking gas far from the galaxy. NGC 2444 contains old stars and no new starbirth because it lost its gas long ago, well before this galactic encounter.
Aside from the star formation in NGC 2445, another interesting feature that Hubble has uncovered is the dark filaments of gas in the starburst galaxy’s bright core. Those features may have been formed by outbursts of material. Radio observations reveal a powerful source in the core that may be spearheading the outbursts. The radio source may have been produced by intense star formation or a black hole gobbling up material flowing into the centre.
It’s not uncommon for star formation to occur in the cores of galaxies, driven by interactions. Plenty of gas from galactic encounters flows into the centre, which can trigger the birth of new stars. Outflows from these stars can drive material out, but the dust created by these outbursts blankets the core and other regions throughout NGC 2445, making it difficult for Hubble to study in visible light.
However, the NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope will have the infrared vision to peer through the dust covering these regions to reveal the young star clusters that are hidden from view in visible-light images. In this way, Hubble and Webb will provide the full census of stars in NGC 2445. The census will help astronomers answer questions such as what the star-formation rate is, how long it takes for stars to form, and whether the starburst in NGC 2445 is fading or just heating up.
Studying young, massive star clusters still embedded in their dust and gas cocoons is important for understanding how star formation affects the evolution of galaxies. Massive stars that explode as supernovae enrich their environment with chemical elements heavier than hydrogen and helium.
The Arp 143 system is listed in a compendium of 338 unusual-looking interacting galaxies called the “Atlas of Peculiar Galaxies” published in 1966 by astronomer Halton Arp.
Credits: NASA, ESA, STScI, and J. Dalcanton (Center for Computational Astrophysics/Flatiron Inst., UWashington); CC BY 4.0
Dont think just about your chance of getting infected.
Imagine that you do have the virus. ...and then change behaviour so that you are less likely to transmit it to others.
This virus needs us to to complacently interact to help it transmit. It needs us to ignore public health messaging. It needs us to not care about others that are more vulnerable than us.
Think social distancing, including children, & protecting older/vulnerable. We are going to be at this for a long time and we need to get good at it.
What happens in London over next few days will be mirrored in rest of UK in the following 14 days. We all have a role to play. ..both what we do and what we say to others.
The Clash: London Calling
Lionel Messi (FC Barcelona), Mikel Balenziaga (Athletic Club) and Luis Enrique Martínez García(FC Barcelona manager) during the Spanish La Liga match at Camp Nou, Barcelona, Spain, on 13 Sep 2014..................................................................... Final Score - Barcelona(2) : Athletic(0)
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The Muskegon South Pierhead Light is a steel tapered cylindrical tower located at the west end of the south pier at the entry channel that connects Muskegon Lake with Lake Michigan. The light tower was constructed in 1903 and remains an active navigational light. .
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Near Arrington, Nelson County, Virginia
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"This machine kills fascists."
Atlanta (Atlanta Civic Center), Georgia, USA.
14 October 2025.
▶ "An estimated 10,000 gathered at the Atlanta Civic Center parking lot in Old Fourth Ward to hear speakers before a march from the Civic Center to Liberty Plaza [downtown] outside the State Capitol building."
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▶ "No Kings protests took place on October 18, 2025, as part of a series of demonstrations against Donald Trump's policies and actions during his second presidency. The demonstrations, which followed the June 2025 No Kings protests, took place in some 2,700 locations across the country, including the National Mall in Washington, D.C., Chicago, New York City, [and Atlanta].
Approximately 200 organizations collaborated to coordinate the October protests, which drew nearly 7 million participants nationwide, marking it as one of the largest single-day demonstrations in American history."
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Foggy morning tears settled upon a fallen leaf momentarily quenching its thirst on a dry concrete sidewalk.
This scene reminded me of the book "Far from the Madding Crowd" by Thomas Hardy, when Gabriel's dog chase the sheep off the cliff.
William Holman Hunt OM (2 April 1827 – 7 September 1910) was an English painter and one of the founders of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood. His paintings were notable for their great attention to detail, vivid colour, and elaborate symbolism. These features were influenced by the writings of John Ruskin and Thomas Carlyle, according to whom the world itself should be read as a system of visual signs. For Hunt it was the duty of the artist to reveal the correspondence between sign and fact. Of all the members of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, Hunt remained most true to their ideals throughout his career. He was always keen to maximise the popular appeal and public visibility of his works. Wikipedia.
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I am starting the new year with a rotten cold which does make me feel a bit glum.
Then I look at my news feed- Middle East escalation, the pictures and stats on the Aus fires, climate change inaction, Brexit, local health service problems - hard to feel optimistic.
Maybe next week will all look better.
anyway a calming acoustic version of a great song if you like:
Jesus and Mary Chain - Taste of Cindy
Before Eastern State Penitentiary was conceived of or built, the roll of prisons were to simply house offenders until their punishment was decided and then carried out. Their sentence would come from the physical punishment -public whipping, branding, or hanging. Time spent in prison was certainly unpleasant, but not considered bad enough to constitute punishment or repayment to the public for their crimes.
In 1787 Benjamin Franklin founded the Philadelphia Society for Alleviating the Miseries of Public Prisons to promote prison reform from a system of punishment to a system with a focus on correction rather than punishment. The idea they promoted was based on a religious belief that everyone longed to be good. So, the idea was that criminals would be isolated for a period of time in order to force them to think about what they had done and how they could improve their lives. They were not to see or communicate with anyone for the duration of their sentence. Masks were placed over their head when they had to be moved and no communication of any kind was allowed. Many prisoners were punished for attempting to communicate by banging on pipes,etc. Care was taken by the wardens not to make noise or have contact with the prisoners even when food was delivered.
In 1822 construction of Eastern State Penitentiary, the first ever prison based on the idea of correction, was begun. It was finished in 1829. By 1836 prisons around the world were being reformed and remodeled to copy Eastern State's model which was called the "Pennsylvania System".
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Desperately wishing I had cold feet right now, or even to get a cold shoulder would be nice. It's been over a week since my escape to the cold, and it's been too long.
tiny lessons in geology
Q. 18 Name three gemstones
(Well I am really hoping that M8 will choose these three when "he" does his assignment ...
A. 18 Russian Amazonite, Dalmatian Jasper and Serpentine or New Jade.
Now some say that gemstones can have special powers - that's why people like to wear them. So in this tiny pic of me today, I hope that my thoughts of inspirational creativity, a feeling of being centered, and emotionally balanced touches each of my wonderful Flickr friends. Have a great day/ night wherever you are in this world!
234/365 Toy Project
234/365 One Object 365 Project
walking on the water ...
Glacier Grey in National Park Torres del Paine, Chile
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I put my old camera tripod to use again, and this was the result in some very low light. My tripod has not been in use since the late 80's... I only used it for taking portraits, so no wear and tear on it at all... still looks brand new! It was a strange feeling to be using it again with such a different kind of camera.
A spectacular trio of merging galaxies in the constellation Boötes takes centre stage in this image from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope. These three galaxies are set on a collision course and will eventually merge into a single larger galaxy, distorting one another’s spiral structure through mutual gravitational interaction in the process. An unrelated foreground galaxy appears to float serenely alongside the collision, and the smudged shapes of much more distant galaxies are visible in the background.
This colliding trio — known to astronomers as SDSSCGB 10189 — is a relatively rare combination of three large star-forming galaxies lying within only 50 000 light-years of one another. While that might sound like a safe distance, for galaxies this makes them extremely close neighbours! Our own galactic neighbours are much further away; Andromeda, the nearest large galaxy to the Milky Way, is more than 2.5 million light-years away from Earth.
This observation was designed to help astronomers understand the origin of the largest, most massive galaxies in the universe. These galactic behemoths are called Brightest Cluster Galaxies (BCGs) and — as the name suggests — are defined as the brightest galaxies in any given galaxy cluster. Astronomers suspect that BCGs form through the merger of large, gas-rich galaxies like the ones in this image. They turned to Hubble’s Wide Field Camera 3 and Advanced Camera for Surveys to investigate this galactic trio in painstaking detail, hoping to shed light on the formation of the Universe’s most massive galaxies.
[Image description: Three galaxies stand together just right of centre. They are close enough that they appear to be merging into one. Their shapes are distorted, with strands of gas and dust running between them. Each is emitting a lot of light. Further to the left is an unconnected, dimmer spiral galaxy. The background is dark, with a few smaller, dim and faint galaxies and a couple of stars.]
Credits: ESA/Hubble & NASA, M. Sun; CC BY 4.0
Since the Golden gate bridge opened in 1937, somone has jumped from it every two weeks on average. Out of nearly 2,000 attempts only 28 have failed. In a year, 1.7 million men and 0.4 million women kill themselves. Did we as a society push them? Was their life a gloomy Sunday? Or is this the natural order of life?
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