msfntor Posted October 9, 2022 Author Share Posted October 9, 2022 Antelope Canyon, Arizona: The most photographed Slot Canyon in the World On Nerds Travel here: https://www.nerdstravel.com/antelope-canyon-arizona/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
msfntor Posted October 10, 2022 Author Share Posted October 10, 2022 Your MEME Today: How to Re-Grow Your Groceries ROOT-GROW-EAT AGAIN! Here: healthbot @thehealthb0t https://twitter.com/thehealthb0t/status/1579381314628657152 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
msfntor Posted October 10, 2022 Author Share Posted October 10, 2022 You can't fix your health until you fix your diet. ..and: https://twitter.com/thehealthb0t/status/1579373761656414208 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
msfntor Posted October 10, 2022 Author Share Posted October 10, 2022 HIPPOCRATES: "The physician treats. But nature heals." "Our Food Should be Our Medicine and Our Medicine Should be Our Food" https://twitter.com/thehealthb0t/status/1579200116170575872 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
msfntor Posted October 11, 2022 Author Share Posted October 11, 2022 Fly Geyser In Gerlach, Nevada Fly Geyser, also known as Fly Ranch Geyser is a small geothermal geyser located on private land in Washoe County, Nevada, about 20 miles (32 km) north of Gerlach. It is actually human-made. In June 2016, the non-profit Burning Man Project purchased the 3,800 acres (1,500 ha) Fly Ranch, including the geyser, for $6.5 million. The Burning Man Project began offering limited public access to the property in May 2018. The geyser contains thermophilic algae, which flourish in moist, hot environments, resulting in multiple hues of green and red, coloring the rocks. The fly geyser contains thermophilic algae, which flourish in moist, hot environments, resulting in multiple hues of green and red, coloring the rocks More: https://themindcircle.com/fly-geyser-in-gerlach-nevada/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
msfntor Posted October 12, 2022 Author Share Posted October 12, 2022 Fascinating @fasc1nate - next: The luckiest duck https://twitter.com/i/status/1580002317516128257 The golden pheasant is a beautifully colored bird of the family Phasianidae native to Western China. Read more: https://bit.ly/3vlCTCA https://twitter.com/fasc1nate/status/1579847778540597249 The Nicobar Pidgeon is the closest living relative of the Dodo Bird. Photo: Allen Chang. Read more: https://bit.ly/2ST2Knf https://twitter.com/fasc1nate/status/1579671113923440641 Giant Tarantulas keep tiny frogs as pets so that the frog can protect the spider's eggs from insects and the spider can protect the frog from predators. Read more: https://bit.ly/3vkqceg https://twitter.com/fasc1nate/status/1579767247161430016 A pygmy marmoset interested in an insect in this amazing clip from "Tiny World". https://twitter.com/i/status/1580118336204992513 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
msfntor Posted October 12, 2022 Author Share Posted October 12, 2022 (edited) Albert Dros photos on Flickr Most viewed, with 16.5 million views: Ala-Archa Kyrgyzstan Inferno An eagle looking for a prey in the late afternoon light of the Ala-Archa Valley near Bishkek in Kyrgyzstan https://www.flickr.com/photos/albertdros/42410096950/ Lavascapes Lava landscape in Iceland during a gloomy afternoon https://www.flickr.com/photos/albertdros/41487930350/in/photostream/ Kyrgyzstan Bonsai High up on the edge of the Issyk Kul Lake in Kyrgyzstan we found this beautiful little Bonsai tree. https://www.flickr.com/photos/albertdros/51289414298/ ...and many more!...: https://www.flickr.com/photos/albertdros/ Albert Dros: My Ten Years of Flickr and Photography - MAY 10, 2022: https://blog.flickr.net/en/2022/05/10/albert-dros-my-ten-years-of-flickr-and-photography/ Edited October 12, 2022 by msfntor Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
msfntor Posted October 12, 2022 Author Share Posted October 12, 2022 Judy Schmidt on Flickr Meathook Galaxy (NGC 2442) https://www.flickr.com/photos/geckzilla/49685507711/ NGC 1409 https://www.flickr.com/photos/geckzilla/49246146857/in/photostream/ Mystic Pillar https://www.flickr.com/photos/geckzilla/49452041152/ Judy Schmidt photostream: https://www.flickr.com/photos/geckzilla/with/49442322962/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
msfntor Posted October 12, 2022 Author Share Posted October 12, 2022 (edited) Compare the "Mystic Pillar" by Judy Schmidt - with "La montaña mística en la nebulosa Carina. The mystical mountain in the Carina nebula" by: Germán Penelas Perez https://www.flickr.com/photos/139762596@N02/50967908022/ The English translation of its description in Spanish here: "Photo processed by me from the files in the Hubble Legacy Archive. I have used three files at different wavelengths S (II), H (alpha) + N (II) and O (III), with wavelengths of 673nm, 657nm and 502 nm. Processed with Pixinsight and PS. In the processing I have tried to extract to the maximum the small and large structures that are seen in the mystical mountain. The Mystic Mountain is a magical place, an impressive formation of gas and stellar dust located in the Carina Nebula, 7,500 light years from Earth. Winds and highly energetic ultraviolet radiation from newly formed massive stars are evaporating and scattering the stellar beds of dust and gas where they formed. In the nebula there are jets of dust and gas known as objects by Herbig Hero, its discoverers, and those that are seen above and below are called HH901 and HH902. In the pillar that is higher, a horizontal jet of 0.61 light years is observed. It is being launched into space by a young star hidden at the top of the pillar structure. And you can see that an electric arc has formed near the tip of the jet. The Carina Nebula is a cold cloud of primarily hydrogen and dust. The data in the visible were taken by the Hubble space telescope in 2010. The Carina Nebula is also called the Keel, Eta Carinae (for the hypergiant star Eta Carinae) or NGC 3372. It is an emission nebula. Surrounding the star Eta Carinae is the Homunculus Nebula. The Carina Nebula can be photographed in its entirety with a 600mm focal length telescope and an FF chip-sized camera." Germán Penelas Perez Flickr photostream: https://www.flickr.com/photos/139762596@N02/ Edited October 13, 2022 by msfntor deleted the double text Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
msfntor Posted October 14, 2022 Author Share Posted October 14, 2022 (edited) Spongey, in the "IKO M16 - Processing Competition" topic on stargazerslounge.com, wrote: "Inspired by Adam's fantastic Starless version, I decided to create one myself!" - so look at this nice resulting photo of M16 the Eagle Nebula (= Cave Nebula): https://stargazerslounge.com/uploads/monthly_2020_08/M16_final_s.thumb.jpg.57605b70b8e67df28f8149b061976037.jpg Topic here: https://stargazerslounge.com/topic/360784-iko-m16-processing-competition/ M16 pillars image: http://paulhaese.net/Deepsky images/M16 SII Ha OIII 180 180 150 cs.jpg The Statue of Liberty Nebula NGC3576 in Carina: http://paulhaese.net/Deepsky images/NGC3576 SII Ha OIII 420 300 420 1 cs final.jpg ...and this same, in Telescope Live: https://telescope.live/gallery/50 Deep Sky website: http://paulhaese.net/DeepSky.html Telescope Live gallery: https://telescope.live/gallery/ ASTRO PHOTOS by NIK SZYMANEK: https://telescope.live/user/2228 Oct 12, 2022: A new image shows at least 17 dust rings created by a rare type of star and its companion locked in a celestial dance. Image above: The two stars in Wolf-Rayet 140 produce shells of dust every eight years that look like rings, as seen in this image from NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope. Each ring was created when the stars came close together and their stellar winds collided, compressing the gas and forming dust. Image Credits: NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI, JPL-Caltech. A new image from James Webb Space Telescope reveals a remarkable cosmic sight: at least 17 concentric dust rings emanating from a pair of stars. Located just over 5,000 light-years from Earth, the duo is collectively known as Wolf-Rayet 140. Each ring was created when the two stars came close together and their stellar winds (streams of gas they blow into space) met, compressing the gas and forming dust. The stars’ orbits bring them together about once every eight years; like the growth of rings of a tree’s trunk, the dust loops mark the passage of time. “We’re looking at over a century of dust production from this system,” said Ryan Lau, an astronomer at NSF’s NOIRLab and lead author of a new study about the system, published today in the journal Nature Astronomy. “The image also illustrates just how sensitive this telescope is. Before, we were only able to see two dust rings, using ground-based telescopes. Now we see at least 17 of them.” Here: Star Duo Forms ‘Fingerprint’ in Space, Webb Finds: https://orbiterchspacenews.blogspot.com/2022/10/star-duo-forms-fingerprint-in-space.html Home page: https://orbiterchspacenews.blogspot.com/ Edited October 19, 2022 by msfntor Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
msfntor Posted October 15, 2022 Author Share Posted October 15, 2022 Fascinating @fasc1nate - twitter A tiger’s tongue is so coarse, it can lick flesh to the bone. Photo: Tony Zerna https://twitter.com/fasc1nate/status/1581223295915298819 It can get as low as -40c in Finland during the winter. The trees get covered in so much snow on frost, it ends up looking like a landscape on another planet. https://twitter.com/fasc1nate/status/1581027254666031105 Bahamas resident Chella Philips housed 97 stray dogs during Hurricane Dorian, likely saving their lives. https://twitter.com/fasc1nate/status/1581104268085690368 The size of a blue supergiant compared to our solar system. Credits: NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center/S. Wiessinge https://twitter.com/fasc1nate/status/1581098473952509952 A rare early 19th-century photo of the Great Sphinx from a hot air balloon. This is before it was excavated and restored. https://twitter.com/fasc1nate/status/1581287468615143424 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
msfntor Posted October 15, 2022 Author Share Posted October 15, 2022 Birds "Moonwalk" to Impress the Ladies | World's Weirdest Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
msfntor Posted October 17, 2022 Author Share Posted October 17, 2022 Helix Nebula (NGC 7293), the “Eye of God” https://generalknowledge835930344.files.wordpress.com/2019/03/helix-desktop-wide.jpg?w=1400 - on Constellation Guide: https://thecoffeecorner.net/2019/03/17/helix-nebula-the-eye-of-god/ "The Helix Nebula (NGC 7293) is a bright, large planetary nebula located 650 light years from Earth in the constellation Aquarius. It is one of the closest planetary nebulae to Earth, as well as one of the brightest. With an apparent magnitude of 7.6 and an apparent size of 25 arcminutes, the nebula is visible in binoculars and easily observed in small telescopes in good conditions. Its striking appearance has earned it the nickname the Eye of God Nebula. Planetary nebulae like the Helix are formed when stars that are not massive enough to go out as supernovae expel their outer envelopes at the end of their evolutionary cycles. The stars become white dwarfs – hot remnant stellar cores – that energize the ejected material. White dwarfs are very dense, typically packing a mass similar to that of the Sun into a volume comparable to that of the Earth. The intense ultraviolet radiation from these stars causes the ejected layers of gas to glow. The Helix Nebula is believed to have formed about 10,600 years ago, when the central star, catalogued as GJ 9785, reached the end of its life cycle and shed its outer layers into space. The nebula’s age is believed to be in the range between 9,400 and 12,900 years based on the measured expansion rate of 31 km/s−1." ... ... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
msfntor Posted October 17, 2022 Author Share Posted October 17, 2022 (edited) Puppis A supernova remnant https://www.chandra.harvard.edu/photo/2014/puppisa/puppisa.jpg Bigger: https://www.flickr.com/photos/nasamarshall/15012972420 Unprecedented X-ray View of Supernova Remains (NASA, Chandra, 09/10/14) The destructive results of a powerful supernova explosion reveal themselves in a delicate tapestry of X-ray light, as seen in this image from NASA’s Chandra X-Ray Observatory and the European Space Agency's XMM-Newton. The image shows the remains of a supernova that would have been witnessed on Earth about 3,700 years ago. The remnant is called Puppis A, and is around 7,000 light years away and about 10 light years across. This image provides the most complete and detailed X-ray view of Puppis A ever obtained, made by combining a mosaic of different Chandra and XMM-Newton observations. Low-energy X-rays are shown in red, medium-energy X-rays are in green and high energy X-rays are colored blue. These observations act as a probe of the gas surrounding Puppis A, known as the interstellar medium. The complex appearance of the remnant shows that Puppis A is expanding into an interstellar medium that probably has a knotty structure. Supernova explosions forge the heavy elements that can provide the raw material from which future generations of stars and planets will form. Studying how supernova remnants expand into the galaxy and interact with other material provides critical clues into our own origins. Image Credit: X-ray: NASA/CXC/IAFE/G.Dubner et al & ESA/XMM-Newton Explanation from: http://chandra.si.edu/photo/2014/puppisa/ Edited October 17, 2022 by msfntor Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
msfntor Posted October 18, 2022 Author Share Posted October 18, 2022 Gauteng’s Jacaranda trees in full bloom as streets turn purple Posted by Olerato Ramafsi on 12 October 2022 Gauteng has over 10 million trees and is sometimes referred to as one of the world’s largest urban man-made forests, and every year Jacarandas paint the streets in purple petals. Picture: Sandra Boris The trees are actually indigenous to South America; their history in South Africa can be traced back to as early as 1880, when they were first imported from Argentina. Before the discovery of Gold in the Witwatersrand in 1886, Gauteng was home to Voortrekker farmers who had relocated from Cape Town during The Great Trek. These farmers brought seeds from the Cape and planted Oak, Walnut and Jacaranda trees. According to Anna Smith in The Star of 1945, the first Jacaranda to be planted in the city was at Charlton Terrace in Doornfontein. Smith reported that Tree entrepreneur William Nelson had nurseries in Turffontein where ‘by 1896 he grew 30-million trees, shrubs and plants for general distribution.’ Nelson, whose business was known as Nelsonia Nurseries, apparently planted 106 kilometres of trees along the streets of the newly established suburb of Kensington. The task took a whopping six months to complete. Which is widely believed to be the first time street trees were planted in South Africa at such a large scale. Even with the rich history that comes with them, the trees occupy a peculiar position within South Africa: While being well-loved and noticeable compared to other species they are still invasive aliens. Which makes replanting the trees prohibited and punishable by law. They are capable of withstanding the test of time with a life expectancy of up to 200 years if cared for properly. The trees have managed to become part of South African folklore with many believing they represent a reminder that everyone’s situation can change when the time is right or if you’re a university student, a painful reminder that it may be too late to get your grades up. ... MORE photos here: https://www.getaway.co.za/travel-news/gautengs-jacaranda-trees-in-full-bloom-as-streets-turn-purple/ Appreciating the beauty of South Africa through sunrises, sunsets and so much more.... HERE: Beautiful South Africa facebook: https://www.facebook.com/people/Beautiful-South-Africa/100057866971072/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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