Orbs captured with camera in Australia Night Sky, many would like to think these are 'dust', 'pollen' or just plain old camera artifacts, well if you want to deceive yourself and believe that, OK, but don't bother hanging around here where research is ongoing and shows otherwise, thanks.

These objects are captured with natural colours presented, some contrast is enhanced for better visual viewing, but all are genuine shots and archived originals are kept on data base. They are all shot over my home in NSW Australia by me personally.

(Left) Sustainability Program Lead Aubrie Davie and (Right) User Support Technician II Davis Wright at the Earth Day clean up event at Newport News, Va., on Thursday, April 18, 2024. (Emily Perdue | Jefferson Lab)

Jefferson Lab Deputy Lab Director for Operations and Chief Operating Officer Johnathon Huff, left, chats with high schoolers during the Engineering Career Day held at Hampton University in Hampton, Va., on Thursday, March 6, 2025. (Aileen Devlin | Jefferson Lab)

Featuring more than 30 experts from Jefferson Lab, NASA Langley Research Center in Hampton and Newport News Shipbuilding, the event exposed Hampton Roads high schoolers and their teachers to the vast array of engineering and related disciplines — mechanical, chemical, aerospace, nuclear, electrical, to name a few. It also tested students’ wits with hands-on design and engineering challenges based on each facility’s mission.

The event is a celebration of National Engineers Week and is sponsored by the Peninsula Engineers Council (PEC).

Jefferson Lab team members pose for a group photo in front of a three-cell conduction-cooled accelerator cavity inside the Test Lab at Jefferson Lab Newport News, Va., July 16, 2025. (Aileen Devlin | Jefferson Lab)

Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility has worked with General Atomics and other partners to unlock even more particle accelerator applications by exploring the process of designing, prototyping and testing particle accelerators that are more powerful and efficient, while also less expensive and bulky.

This cavity represents the technical progress they hope to demonstrate – that they can reach higher beam energies and, hence, target more applications for the commercial use of electron beam.

Staff Scientist Election Ion Collider (EIC) Francois-Xavier Girod-Gard poses for photograph inside Experimental Hall B at Jefferson Lab in Newport News, Va., on Wednesday March 13, 2024. (Photo by Aileen Devlin | Jefferson Lab)

Long-anticipated experiments that use light to mimic gravity are revealing the distribution of energies, forces and pressures inside a subatomic particle for the first time. (Text by Charlie Wood | Quanta Magazine)

Student Chloe Tang from BASIS Independent Mclean during the practice round at the Science Bowl held at Jefferson Lab in Newport News, Va., on Saturday February 3, 2024. (Emily Perdue | Jefferson Lab).

The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) National Science Bowl is a nationwide academic competition that tests students’ knowledge in all areas of science and mathematics.

Scenes from the Accelerator Applications Conference held at the Sheraton Hotel in downtown Norfolk, Va., from March 17-21, 2024. (Photo courtesy of Valeriia Starovoitova)

Accelerator Applications 2024 is the fifteenth international topical meeting on the applications of accelerators; it is being organized jointly by Jefferson Lab and Accelerator Applications Division (AAD) of the American Nuclear Society (ANS). Accelerator Applications 2024 is co-sponsored by the International Symposium On Hydrogen In Matter (ISOHIM), International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) and other organizations.

Scenes from the Accelerator Applications Conference held at the Sheraton Hotel in downtown Norfolk, Va., from March 17-21, 2024. (Photo courtesy of Valeriia Starovoitova)

Accelerator Applications 2024 is the fifteenth international topical meeting on the applications of accelerators; it is being organized jointly by Jefferson Lab and Accelerator Applications Division (AAD) of the American Nuclear Society (ANS). Accelerator Applications 2024 is co-sponsored by the International Symposium On Hydrogen In Matter (ISOHIM), International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) and other organizations.

Jefferson Lab employees participate in the annual OHSA10 training held at Jefferson Lab in Newport News, Va., on Friday, May 3, 2024. (Aileen Devlin | Jefferson Lab)

OSHA 10-hour training teaches basic safety and health information to entry-level workers in construction and general industry. It is part of the OSHA Outreach Training Program, which explains serious workplace hazards, workers' rights, employer responsibilities and how to file an OSHA complaint.

SRF Accelerator Physicist Uttar Pudasaini

works to unload a five cell niobium cavity inside the R&D Thin Film Lab at Jefferson Lab in Newport News, Va., on Wednesday, Feb. 15, 2023. (Photo by Aileen Devlin | Jefferson Lab)

Science Education Administrator Jalyn Dio gives a presentation about the Science Education Department activities during the Joint CSAAPT/NCS-AAPT Meeting held at Jefferson Lab in Newport News, Va., on Saturday, Oct. 19, 2024. (Aileen Devlin | Jefferson Lab)

The Chesapeake Section of the American Association of Physics Teachers (CSAAPT) is convening a meeting at Jefferson Lab to learn about the lab's research initiatives and take tours of the accelerator facilities. The objective is to equip physics educators with valuable insights to integrate into their classroom teaching.

The Jefferson Lab Tech Center sign at Jefferson Lab Newport News, Va., Nov. 19, 2024. (Lindsay Cunningham | Jefferson Lab)

Hampton University Graduate Studies Program (HUGS) attendee Hector Chinchay gives a talk in CEBAF Center at Jefferson Lab Newport News, Va., Jun. 11, 2025. (Lindsay Cunningham | Jefferson Lab)

Lab Director Stuart Henderson interacts with Lab staff in the Continuous Electron Beam Accelerator Facility (CEBAF) at Jefferson Lab in Newport News, Va., Aug. 2, 2024. (Lindsay Cunningham | Jefferson Lab)

Looking between plastic curtains inside the SRF Test Lab at Jefferson Lab in Newport News, Va., on Wednesday, Oct. 18, 2023. (Aileen Devlin | Jefferson Lab)

Scenes from the Accelerator Applications Conference held at the Sheraton Hotel in downtown Norfolk, Va., from March 17-21, 2024. (Photo courtesy of Valeriia Starovoitova)

Accelerator Applications 2024 is the fifteenth international topical meeting on the applications of accelerators; it is being organized jointly by Jefferson Lab and Accelerator Applications Division (AAD) of the American Nuclear Society (ANS). Accelerator Applications 2024 is co-sponsored by the International Symposium On Hydrogen In Matter (ISOHIM), International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) and other organizations.

Scenes from the Accelerator Applications Conference held at the Sheraton Hotel in downtown Norfolk, Va., from March 17-21, 2024. (Photo courtesy of Valeriia Starovoitova)

Accelerator Applications 2024 is the fifteenth international topical meeting on the applications of accelerators; it is being organized jointly by Jefferson Lab and Accelerator Applications Division (AAD) of the American Nuclear Society (ANS). Accelerator Applications 2024 is co-sponsored by the International Symposium On Hydrogen In Matter (ISOHIM), International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) and other organizations.

Chief Innovation Officer Marla Schuchman speaks to the crowd during the Patent Awards reception held at the James River Country Club in Newport News, Va., on Tuesday, April 16, 2024. (Aileen Devlin | Jefferson Lab)

Jefferson Lab hosted an afternoon reception in honor of our community of inventors. At this invite-only event, we celebrated inventors' accomplishments with a toast to innovation and a convivial afternoon of conversation and refreshments.

Our keynote speaker is Parikha Mehta, Special Advisor to the Under Secretary of Commerce for Intellectual Property and Director of the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO.)

Jefferson Lab employees work to unload one set of magnet girders—which came from Argonne National Laboratory’s Advanced Photon Source (APS) and will be repurposed for Brookhaven National Laboratory—in Newport News, Va., on Thursday, Sept. 14, 2023. (Aileen Devlin | Jefferson Lab)

Calorimeter modules are reinstalled into the Forward Calorimeter during the PrimEx detector upgrade for Experimental Hall D located at Jefferson Lab in Newport News, Va., on Tuesday. Sept. 5, 2023. (Aileen Devlin | Jefferson Lab)

A ruby-tipped probe prepares to scan a niobium cavity flange using a Coordinate Measuring Machine (CMM) inside the SRF Test Lab at Jefferson Lab in Newport News, Va., on Wednesday, Feb. 8, 2023. (Photo by Aileen Devlin | Jefferson Lab)

From left: Heritage High School’s Damani Gray, Grassfield High School’s William Crosby and Bethel High School’s Da’Ziyah Hill participate in a design challenge during the Engineering Career Day held at Hampton University in Hampton, Va., on Thursday, March 6, 2025. (Aileen Devlin | Jefferson Lab)

Featuring more than 30 experts from Jefferson Lab, NASA Langley Research Center in Hampton and Newport News Shipbuilding, the event exposed Hampton Roads high schoolers and their teachers to the vast array of engineering and related disciplines — mechanical, chemical, aerospace, nuclear, electrical, to name a few. It also tested students’ wits with hands-on design and engineering challenges based on each facility’s mission.

The event is a celebration of National Engineers Week and is sponsored by the Peninsula Engineers Council (PEC).

From left: Jefferson Lab design challenge winners William Crosby, Damani Gray and Da’Ziyah Hill pose for a photo during the Engineering Career Day held at Hampton University in Hampton, Va., on Thursday, March 6, 2025. (Aileen Devlin | Jefferson Lab)

Featuring more than 30 experts from Jefferson Lab, NASA Langley Research Center in Hampton and Newport News Shipbuilding, the event exposed Hampton Roads high schoolers and their teachers to the vast array of engineering and related disciplines — mechanical, chemical, aerospace, nuclear, electrical, to name a few. It also tested students’ wits with hands-on design and engineering challenges based on each facility’s mission.

The event is a celebration of National Engineers Week and is sponsored by the Peninsula Engineers Council (PEC).

Niobium cavity flange is photographed inside the Coordinate Measuring Machine (CMM) room of the SRF Test Lab at Jefferson Lab in Newport News, Va., on Wednesday, Feb. 8, 2023. (Photo by Aileen Devlin | Jefferson Lab)

Students of the Hampton University Graduate Studies (HUGS) Summer Program tour the facility Jefferson Lab in Newport News, Va., on Friday, May 31, 2024. (Aileen Devlin | Jefferson Lab)

The Hampton University Graduate Studies (HUGS) Summer Program at Jefferson Lab is an internationally renowned summer program in Nuclear Physics designed to train the nuclear workforce's next generation of researchers.

People gather for the Science Education Poster Session in CEBAF Center at Jefferson Lab Newport News, Va., Aug. 1, 2025. (Aileen Devlin | Jefferson Lab)

Scenes from the Accelerator Applications Conference held at the Sheraton Hotel in downtown Norfolk, Va., from March 17-21, 2024. (Photo courtesy of Valeriia Starovoitova)

Accelerator Applications 2024 is the fifteenth international topical meeting on the applications of accelerators; it is being organized jointly by Jefferson Lab and Accelerator Applications Division (AAD) of the American Nuclear Society (ANS). Accelerator Applications 2024 is co-sponsored by the International Symposium On Hydrogen In Matter (ISOHIM), International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) and other organizations.

Scenes from the Accelerator Applications Conference held at the Sheraton Hotel in downtown Norfolk, Va., from March 17-21, 2024. (Photo courtesy of Valeriia Starovoitova)

Accelerator Applications 2024 is the fifteenth international topical meeting on the applications of accelerators; it is being organized jointly by Jefferson Lab and Accelerator Applications Division (AAD) of the American Nuclear Society (ANS). Accelerator Applications 2024 is co-sponsored by the International Symposium On Hydrogen In Matter (ISOHIM), International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) and other organizations.

Scenes from the Accelerator Applications Conference held at the Sheraton Hotel in downtown Norfolk, Va., from March 17-21, 2024. (Photo courtesy of Valeriia Starovoitova)

Accelerator Applications 2024 is the fifteenth international topical meeting on the applications of accelerators; it is being organized jointly by Jefferson Lab and Accelerator Applications Division (AAD) of the American Nuclear Society (ANS). Accelerator Applications 2024 is co-sponsored by the International Symposium On Hydrogen In Matter (ISOHIM), International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) and other organizations.

Two deer enjoy the sunlight as fall begins to set along Jefferson Lab’s campus in Newport News, Va., on Tuesday, Nov. 5, 2024. (Aileen Devlin | Jefferson Lab)

Jefferson Lab employees work to unload one set of magnet girders—which came from Argonne National Laboratory’s Advanced Photon Source (APS) and will be repurposed for Brookhaven National Laboratory—in Newport News, Va., on Thursday, Sept. 14, 2023. (Aileen Devlin | Jefferson Lab)

Details of central aggregation switches, which are used as web servers, backup servers, and virtual machine hosts to power website and other network services, at the Jefferson Lab Data Center in Newport News, Va., on Monday, March 26, 2024. (Aileen Devlin | Jefferson Lab)

By combining engineering and operations domain expertise and creative integration of advanced hardware and software, JLab delivers advanced computational solutions that address complex data and analytic challenges.

Working in multidisciplinary teams, JLab connects research to engineering to operations, providing the tools necessary to innovate quickly and field results faster.

Accelerator Physicist Anne-Marie Valente-Feliciano works with the Electron Cyclotron Resonance (ECR) sample system inside the R&D Thin Film Lab at Jefferson Lab in Newport News, Va., on Wednesday, Feb. 15, 2023. (Photo by Aileen Devlin | Jefferson Lab)

A local resident interacts with a double helix art installation at the Made in Newport News event held at City Center in Newport News, Va., on Saturday, Aug. 12, 2023. (Aileen Devlin | Jefferson Lab)

Newport News is a city of innovators, artists, entrepreneurs, scholars, scientists, and everyone in between. This free event includes live music and entertainment, art experiences, a beer garden, food, businesses, family activities, and more.

Hampton Roads Bridge-Tunnel (HRBT) Expansion Project Director Ryan Banas, center, speaks to the crowd about the HRBT expansion project during an event honoring Engineering Week at Jefferson Lab in Newport News, Va., on Wednesday, Feb. 21, 2024. (Aileen Devlin | Jefferson Lab)

The Hampton Roads Bridge-Tunnel Expansion is a transformative undertaking, will widen the current four-lane segments along nearly ten miles of the I-64 corridor in Norfolk and Hampton, with new twin tunnels across the harbor.

Educators and attendees ask questions during a presentation at the Joint CSAAPT/NCS-AAPT Meeting held at Jefferson Lab in Newport News, Va., on Saturday, Oct. 19, 2024. (Aileen Devlin | Jefferson Lab)

The Chesapeake Section of the American Association of Physics Teachers (CSAAPT) is convening a meeting at Jefferson Lab to learn about the lab's research initiatives and take tours of the accelerator facilities. The objective is to equip physics educators with valuable insights to integrate into their classroom teaching.

Join industry and academic experts in the quantum field for a panel inspired by Ted Chiang's story "Anxiety is the Dizziness of Freedom." Ted Chiang's Exhalation: Stories is the UCSB Reads pick for 2022.

Panelists include Kerem Camsari (Electrical & Computer Engineering), Sabrina Hong (Quantum Google AI), Matt McEwen (PhD student, Quantum Foundry), Seamus O'Hara (PhD Student, Quantum Foundry).

Erik Lucero (Quantum Google AI) will moderate.

Stills from a video series titled "Jefferson Lab Safety Minute," focusing on various themes of site-wide safety, at Jefferson Lab in Newport News, Va., on Wednesday, Oct. 18, 2023. (Aileen Devlin | Jefferson Lab)

Old Dominion University graduate student Bashu Khanal works on cavity dissembling inside the R&D Structures Lab at Jefferson Lab in Newport News, Va., on Thursday, Feb. 16, 2023. (Photo by Aileen Devlin | Jefferson Lab)

Staked data storage racks at Jefferson Lab’s Data Center in Newport News, Va., on Monday, March 26, 2024. (Aileen Devlin | Jefferson Lab)

By combining engineering and operations domain expertise and creative integration of advanced hardware and software, JLab delivers advanced computational solutions that address complex data and analytic challenges.

Working in multidisciplinary teams, JLab connects research to engineering to operations, providing the tools necessary to innovate quickly and field results faster.

Lock out Tag out (LOTO) system seen inside Experimental Hall A at Jefferson Lab in Newport News, Va., on Tuesday, Aug. 6, 2024. (Aileen Devlin | Jefferson Lab)

Old Dominion University postdoc Gabriel Palacios-Serrano presets “Half a Million Volt Gas Insulator for Photogun” during the Quark Tank competition held at Jefferson Lab in Newport News, Va., on Friday, Oct. 6, 2023. (Aileen Devlin | Jefferson Lab)

This event is JLab’s version of "Shark Tank" - Quark Tank! SLAM is short-talk competition challenging post-doc contestants to present a compelling 3-minute presentation on their research that a non-specialist can understand.

The winner will be Jefferson Lab's representative that will compete against contestants from the sixteen other national labs on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C., on Nov. 15. There, contestants will educate U.S. government policymakers and their staff about the key role our labs play in the nation's innovation ecosystem and their impact on the nation.

Details of the interactive double helix art installation on display along with Jefferson Lab science education department at the Made in Newport News event held at City Center in Newport News, Va., on Saturday, Aug. 12, 2023. (Aileen Devlin | Jefferson Lab)

Newport News is a city of innovators, artists, entrepreneurs, scholars, scientists, and everyone in between. This free event includes live music and entertainment, art experiences, a beer garden, food, businesses, family activities, and more.

Hampton Roads Bridge-Tunnel (HRBT) Expansion Project Director Ryan Banas, center, speaks to the crowd about the HRBT expansion project during an event honoring Engineering Week at Jefferson Lab in Newport News, Va., on Wednesday, Feb. 21, 2024. (Aileen Devlin | Jefferson Lab)

The Hampton Roads Bridge-Tunnel Expansion is a transformative undertaking, will widen the current four-lane segments along nearly ten miles of the I-64 corridor in Norfolk and Hampton, with new twin tunnels across the harbor.

Educators and attendees network during the Joint CSAAPT/NCS-AAPT Meeting held at Jefferson Lab in Newport News, Va., on Saturday, Oct. 19, 2024. (Aileen Devlin | Jefferson Lab)

The Chesapeake Section of the American Association of Physics Teachers (CSAAPT) is convening a meeting at Jefferson Lab to learn about the lab's research initiatives and take tours of the accelerator facilities. The objective is to equip physics educators with valuable insights to integrate into their classroom teaching.

Heritage High School’s Damani Gray, Grassfield High School’s William Crosby and Bethel High School’s Da’Ziyah Hill participate in a design challenge during the Engineering Career Day held at Hampton University in Hampton, Va., on Thursday, March 6, 2025. (Aileen Devlin | Jefferson Lab)

Featuring more than 30 experts from Jefferson Lab, NASA Langley Research Center in Hampton and Newport News Shipbuilding, the event exposed Hampton Roads high schoolers and their teachers to the vast array of engineering and related disciplines — mechanical, chemical, aerospace, nuclear, electrical, to name a few. It also tested students’ wits with hands-on design and engineering challenges based on each facility’s mission.

The event is a celebration of National Engineers Week and is sponsored by the Peninsula Engineers Council (PEC).

Cavity Tuning room at the SRF Test Lab at Jefferson Lab on Thursday, Dec. 1, 2022. (Photo by Aileen Devlin | Jefferson Lab)

Staff Scientist Eric Lechner carefully places a niobium sample into the electropolishing fixture inside the SRF Test Lab at Jefferson Lab in Newport News, Va., on Wednesday, July 10, 2018. (Photo by Aileen Devlin | Jefferson Lab)

Lechner preps the samples for an electropolishing chemical bath, which smooths out the surface quality equivalent to the interior of niobium cavity, and helps understand the purity content inside the cavity.

Scenes from the Accelerator Applications Conference held at the Sheraton Hotel in downtown Norfolk, Va., from March 17-21, 2024. (Photo courtesy of Valeriia Starovoitova)

Accelerator Applications 2024 is the fifteenth international topical meeting on the applications of accelerators; it is being organized jointly by Jefferson Lab and Accelerator Applications Division (AAD) of the American Nuclear Society (ANS). Accelerator Applications 2024 is co-sponsored by the International Symposium On Hydrogen In Matter (ISOHIM), International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) and other organizations.