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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)
Gallileo Tower - Frankfurt am Main, Germany 2015... Gallileo is a 38-storey 136m/446 ft skyscraper in the Bahnhofsviertel district of Frankfurt, currently being used by Commerzbank.
This square-format photo flips the zebra’s stripes into a stunning diagonal pattern. The unique angle and creative cropping turn the natural beauty of the zebra’s fur into an abstract masterpiece. The bold black and white contrast and dynamic lines make this image a standout, showcasing how a fresh perspective can reveal the extraordinary in the ordinary
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.
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A nice encounter in the public park: Red deer looking for food - and not escaping quickly into the bushes.
The Canon camera that I had with me is not well known for speed so I am thankful to the game that they stayed! - Instead they just observed me very well...
Recommended to watch in orginal size.
The photo is shot in RAW mode and turned to monochrome in various steps. Edited, as always, with good Open Source software on Linux.
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The workhorse of the military during World War II and beyond.
Airborne Museum in St Mere Eglise, Normandy, France.
This observation from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope showcases Arp 86, a peculiar pair of interacting galaxies which lies roughly 220 million light-years from Earth in the constellation Pegasus. Arp 86 is composed of the two galaxies NGC 7752 and NGC 7753 — NGC 7753 is the large spiral galaxy dominating this image, and NGC 7752 is its smaller companion. The diminutive companion galaxy almost appears to be attached to NGC 7753, and it is this peculiarity that has earned the designation “Arp 86” — signifying that the galaxy pair appears in the Atlas of Peculiar Galaxies compiled by the astronomer Halton Arp in 1966. The gravitational squabble between the two galaxies is doomed to end catastrophically for NGC 7752. It will eventually either be flung out into intergalactic space or be entirely engulfed by its far larger neighbour.
Hubble observed Arp 86 as part of a larger effort to understand the connections between young stars and the clouds of cold gas in which they form. Hubble gazed into star clusters and clouds of gas and dust in a variety of environments dotted throughout nearby galaxies. Combined with measurements from ALMA, a gigantic radio telescope perched high in the Chilean Andes, these Hubble observations provide a treasure trove of data for astronomers working to understand how stars are born.
These observations also helped sow the seeds of future research with an upcoming space telescope, the NASA/ESA James Webb Space Telescope (JWST). This telescope, due to launch later this year, will study star formation in dusty regions such as the galaxies of Arp 86.
Credits: ESA/Hubble and NASA, Dark Energy Survey, J. Dalcanton; CC BY 4.0
The jellyfish galaxy JO175 appears to hang suspended in this image from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope. This galaxy lies over 650 million light-years from Earth in the appropriately-named constellation Telescopium, and was captured in crystal-clear detail by Hubble’s Wide Field Camera 3. A handful of more distant galaxies are lurking throughout the scene, and a bright four-pointed star lies to the lower right side.
Jellyfish galaxies get their unusual name from the tendrils of star-forming gas and dust that trail behind them, just like the tentacles of a jellyfish. These bright tendrils contain clumps of star formation and give jellyfish galaxies a particularly striking appearance. Unlike their ocean-dwelling namesakes, jellyfish galaxies make their homes in galaxy clusters, and the pressure of the tenuous superheated plasma that permeates these galaxy clusters is what draws out the jellyfish galaxies’ distinctive tendrils.
Hubble recently completed a deep dive into jellyfish clusters, specifically the star-forming clumps of gas and dust that stud their tendrils. By studying the origins and fate of the stars in these clumps, astronomers hoped to better understand the processes underpinning star formation elsewhere in the Universe. Interestingly, their research suggests that star formation in the discs of galaxies is similar to star formation in the extreme conditions found in the tendrils of jellyfish galaxies.
[Image Description: A spiral galaxy. Its spiral arms are studded with many pink spots, especially around the top of the galaxy. One arm is sticking out below the galaxy. From it and around the bottom of the galaxy, faint gas streams away, while little gas is visible above the galaxy. The galaxy is quite small in the centre of a dark background, where a few smaller galaxies of various shapes and sizes hang.]
Credits: ESA/Hubble & NASA, M. Gullieuszik and the GASP team; CC BY 4.0
This is a shot from my descent down from the Matterhorn. From this high up, it truly is a birds eye view of the valley below. Again, it's another shot from a week or two ago. I'm back in California now.
Green on green. Late summer fruit (?) in...
Decatur (Winnona Park), Georgia, USA.
8 September 2020.
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This is a Blue Dasher, I think I read somewhere, the most common dragonfly in North America. They love slow moving water and so, no surprise they were in abundance on the bayous of Louisiana.
One for Macro Monday.