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Here's some additional information that is missing from the EXIF data: The shot was made with a Samyang 8mm manual fisheye lens close to Sloane Square tube station in London SW1. BW conversion with Silver Efex Pro 2.
Wandering the Nieuwkoopse Plassen by kayak. "Nieuwkoopse Plassen is a low fenland which has come about by peat accumulation. It contains a large variety of vegetations that are characteristic of open waters, quagmires... , reedlands and swamp forests." (Source: www.natuurmonumenten.nl/english-summary-6)
Second stage of my Space Marine Army project finished. Now there are two full squads of Marines, one Tactical and one Devastators, a Dreadnought, Land Speeder and a fully remotely controlled Power-Functions powered Predator tank.
That was my third entry for the contest "Out of this World Space Builds" on Lego Idea.
Story:
“We meet again our two fellow classic space figs, Eddy and Cindy with their new outfits. They are now going on a new adventure, exploring space!
Unfortunately, this spaceship doesn't have a rover to explore the surface of new discovered planets but have a little useful speeder bike attached to the rear. Well, Cindy have difficulties to handle the speeder and is kind of scared by its power ... (both minifigs have a double side face, one normal and the other scared ... the speeder bike is definitively difficult to handle!!)”
In fact, it was designed to be with this diorama but it was a large spaceship so I decided to substitute another (smaller) and make this one on his own.
PS: Don’t judge my photoshop skills, I’m a beginner ^_^
'Straight at me... slowly... right!
'Why are we this close to these large boulders and rocks? Shouldn't we build a bit further away?'
These rocks will be part of our base... We can build higher this way, and use those natural caves as well...'
'Them rocks look weird, regular, almost build!'
'Ah well, probably just basalt or something, you have those weird geometric rock patterns at some place on earth too...'
'Are you sure this is the front end?'
'It most certainly will be, once we're done!'
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The crawler from set 60229 taking shape.
The rubber wheels are on axles that connect to one sprocket in each track. It 'drives' the hard plastic tracks, even on a very smooth surface, and works very well.
The last vestiges of sunset wash across the port side of the Royal Navy anti-submarine Fairey AEW MK.3 Gannet at the Pima Air & Space Museum.
New images of the Phantom Galaxy, M74, showcase the power of space observatories working together in multiple wavelengths. On the left, the Hubble Space Telescope’s view of the galaxy ranges from the older, redder stars towards the centre, to younger and bluer stars in its spiral arms, to the most active stellar formation in the red bubbles of H II regions.
On the right, the James Webb Space Telescope’s image is strikingly different, instead highlighting the masses of gas and dust within the galaxy’s arms, and the dense cluster of stars at its core. The combined image in the centre merges these two for a truly unique look at this “grand design” spiral galaxy. Scientists combine data from telescopes operating across the electromagnetic spectrum to truly understand astronomical objects. In this way, data from Hubble and Webb compliment each other to provide a comprehensive view of the spectacular M74 galaxy.
Read more: esawebb.org/images/potm2208c/
Image credits: ESA/Webb, NASA & CSA, J. Lee and the PHANGS-JWST Team.
Acknowledgement: J. Schmidt
Image description: This image is divided evenly into 3 different views of the same region in the Phantom Galaxy. At left is an optical view taken by Hubble. Arms carved of brown filaments spiral out from a bright galactic core. The arms have pops of pink, which are star-forming regions, and there are blue stars throughout. The middle view contained combined Webb and Hubble data. Lacy red filaments spiraling out of the center of the galaxy are overlaid over a black field speckled with tiny blue stars. The red filaments contain pops of bright pink, which are star-forming regions. Lighter oranges in the red dust mean that dust is hotter. Heavier older stars closer to the center of the galaxy are cyan and green, and contribute to a greenish glow at the core. At right is a mid-infrared image from Webb. Delicate gray filaments spiral outwards from the center. These arms are traced by blue and bursts of pink, which are star-forming regions. A cluster of young stars glow blue at the very heart of the galaxy.
Please have your boarding pass ready. Destination: the International Space Station.
ESA project astronaut Sławosz Uznański-Wiśniewski received a symbolic boarding pass to orbit during a rehearsal ahead of liftoff at the historic Pad 39A in Cape Canaveral, Florida, USA.
On launch day, he and the Axiom Mission 4 (Ax-4) crew will ride the lift that will take them to the boarding bridge leading to a brand-new Dragon spacecraft atop the Falcon 9 rocket. The latest in SpaceX’s fleet of crewed vehicles has improved storage and propulsion systems.
Suited up for the occasion, Sławosz will board the Dragon about an hour before launch. This time allows for final checks, communication tests and seat adjustments.
Flying as mission specialist for Ax-4, the Polish astronaut will have a window seat next to US commander Peggy Whitson. They will share the ride with pilot Shubhanshu Shukla from India and fellow mission specialist Tibor Kapu from Hungary.
Slawosz is the second ESA crew member on a commercial spaceflight with Axiom Space, after Marcus Wandt’s Muninn mission in 2024. The journey to the International Space Station will take around 30 hours. The European mission, called Ignis, will officially begin as soon as Sławosz passes through the hatch and enters the International Space Station.
The ESA astronaut is ready to board. Stay tuned with the latest updates on our X and BlueSky accounts. Watch Sławosz begin his first space travel live on ESA YouTube.
Sponsored by the Polish government and supported by ESA, the Polish Ministry of Economic Development and Technology (MRiT) and the Polish Space Agency (POLSA), the mission features an ambitious programme of technological and scientific research.
Check the Ignis launch kit to learn more about Sławosz and the 13 experiments proposed by Polish companies and institutions that he will carry out in space.
Credits: SpaceX
Jupiter map rendered from images taken over the first few weeks of October 2022, generated in WinJupos
Picture for the MacroMondays group theme on April 14th, 2014: Negative Space.
正在為本週主題發愁，發現這張從下面往上拍的蝴蝶照片，正好有大片天空留白啊！
PS. 標題出自宋代，陸游的「春日暄甚戲作」。
~馬美部落, 尖石鄉, 新竹縣
Mamei Village, Hsinchu, Taiwan
- ISO 640, F5, 1/8000 sec, 100mm
- Canon 5D MarkIII with EF 100mm f/2.8 L macro lens
- Shot @ 11.30am
2023 Weekly Challenge 38/52 ~ Liminal Space
Thank you to everyone who pauses long enough to look at my photo. All comments and Faves are very much appreciated
These three images are of the central region of the magnificent spiral galaxy M100, taken with three generations of the Hubble Space Telescope cameras that were sequentially swapped out aboard the telescope, and document the consistently improving capability of the observatory.
The image on the left was taken with the Wide Field/Planetary Camera 1 in 1993. The photo is blurry due to a manufacturing flaw (called spherical aberration) in Hubble's primary mirror. Celestial images could not be brought into a single focus. [Credit: NASA, ESA, and Judy Schmidt]
The middle image was taken in late 1993 with Wide Field/Planetary Camera 2 that was installed during the Dec. 2-13 space shuttle servicing mission (SM1, STS-61). The camera contained corrective optics to compensate for the mirror flaw, and so the galaxy snapped into sharp focus when photographed. [Credit: NASA, ESA, and J. DePasquale (STScI)]
The image on the right was taken with a newer instrument, Wide Field Camera 3, that was installed on Hubble during the space shuttle Servicing Mission 4 in May 2009. [Credit: NASA, ESA, and Judy Schmidt]
In celebration of the 25th anniversary of NASA's first space servicing mission to Hubble, these comparison photos of one of the telescope's first targets are being released today.
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Dale Chihuly "Sun" sculpture at Garden and Glass Museum next door to the iconic Seattle Space Needle.
The Flickr Lounge-Metal
This was at the Trumansburg Farmer's Market today. It comes from the Grassroots Festival.
For a long time there were no works from me, especially for a long time there was no work on space theme. The last time I had built a spaceship was in 2016.
In April, there was a competition dedicated to the space theme, and I decided I definitely have to build a ship with an interior. It was quite an ambitious idea to embody within a month, and some points could not be completed in time. I wanted to polish ship after the end of the competition, but I never found time for it, and the desire to return to the ship gradually disappeared.
But by the way I think It still looks pretty good.
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[UPDATE 10/23/11
Thank you to everyone who has looked at our project! The response has been completely overwhelming. We were itching to launch another one but after seeing the feedback, it makes us that much more excited to get it done. The next launch will be about 2 weeks from now, and that payload will have a video camera along for the ride as well! We've sorted out all the issues we had on this run, so all the images should be usable. Thank you again for all of the support and stay tuned for more images in the future!]
This is what space looks like from a weather balloon. We're working on determining exactly what altitude we got to, but I'd put it somewhere near 100,000 feet.
You can see about half of the city of Lubbock along the bottom of the photo just right of center.
We launched our little spacecraft (Cygnus) at 9:02am from 33° 49' 28"N 102° 53' 56"W, and it touched back down to Earth at 11:56am at 33° 19' 21"N 101° 59' 42"W. 62 miles from where it was released. This image was taken 1 hour and 55 minutes into the flight.
The camera was traveling in a styrofoam beer cooler from Wal Mart. The cooler was lifted into space using a 22 foot weather balloon filled with Helium. A parachute was attached to the cooler to slow and stabilize the fall of the cooler when the balloon eventually popped from lack of air pressure as it rose closer to the vacuum of space.
There were some issues with frost building up on the plexiglass shield and it actually ruined most of the images. Live and learn I suppose. We'll get it down next time. Most people we've seen do this online take 3-6 months of planning and preparation before they launch something. We did it in 13 days. I guess it's only fitting that we overlooked something. I'm just glad we found it and everything was still in one piece!
Because there was so much issue with frost, I did my best to remove it from this image. It made the curve of the Earth a little bumpy in the left half of the image, but you can see what it should look like toward the right edge.
Check out a video of the balloon being released here!
UPDATE 10/19/11
We made the local news! So awesome. Check out the story here. (I'll update this link if I get a higher quality video)