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A fern leaf still curled up. I was looking for a different fern species, but this one was quite nice as well... it reminded me a bit if an engraved wooden spoon.
I think it's a Garden Tiger moth caterpillar, if so I haven't seen one for years.
I remember many years ago these beautiful moths used to be very common.
Roding Valley meadows.
After I saw this gorgeous photo of Domitalia Jinx www.flickr.com/photos/domitaliajinx/6819336496/
I got inspired and thought to give it a try. My first entry ever to the fantastic [♂]::MΔSTЭЯMIИĐS::[♀] group
North Curl Curl
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I'm such a water fanatic - I HAD to get in lol living it up in the final days of summer in Oregon :)
More mushroom stacking with a specimen on the edge. I really liked the dark rim and the tree in the bg. Got a little streak of sunlight at the last minute which really helped with depth here.
A new rendering shows star-forming regions and more details in the galaxy core. Based on public data from the HLA archive.
NGC 1300 is an example of a barred spiral galaxy. Unlike in other spiral galaxies where the starry arms curl outward from the center of the galaxy, NGC 1300's arms twist away from the ends of a straight bar of stars that stretches across the galaxy's core. Observational evidence suggests that our own galaxy, the Milky Way, is a barred spiral as well.
NGC 1300's spiral arms include blue clusters of young stars, pink clouds that are forming new stars, and dark lanes of dust. Two prominent dust lanes also cut through the galaxy's bar, which contains mostly older, orangish stars. These dust lanes disappear into a tight spiral feature at the center of the bar. Interestingly, only galaxies with large bars appear to have such a "spiral within a spiral." Hubble's image of NGC 1300, taken with the Advanced Camera for Surveys, reveals finer details in these features than ever seen before.
Using Hubble to study more than 2,000 spiral galaxies both near and far, astronomers have learned that barred spiral galaxies are more common today than they were in the past. Led by Kartik Sheth of the Spitzer Science Center at the California Institute of Technology, the team found that 65 percent of present-day spiral galaxies have bars, but 7 billion years ago, only 20 percent of spirals had them. The researchers also noticed that the percentage of massive spiral galaxies that have bars was about the same in the past as it is today, but for low-mass spirals, more present-day galaxies have bars than the earlier ones do.
Galaxies take time to mature, so today's galaxies are typically more developed than those from billions of years ago. Astronomers also know that larger, more massive galaxies tend to develop faster — and thus earlier — than smaller, less massive galaxies do. The findings, therefore, imply that bars are a sign of maturity among spiral galaxies.
Constellation: Eridanus
Distance: 69 million light-years
Image credits: ESA/Hubble & NASA, Keith Noll
Processing & copyright: Leo Shatz
Text source: hubblesite.org/image/3880/category/37-spiral-galaxies
Previous artwork on ESA Hubble website - "A poster-size image of the beautiful barred spiral galaxy NGC 1300"
I just wanted to share my Girl with her new curls, I'm just too good making curls now... Now, if I could be good at re-paints... u.u LOL
After a day and a half of heavy rain, my wife and I went for a walk at a local reserve chasing some waterfalls. A beautiful sunny afternoon after the rain.