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What is it? Mystery object discovered by astronomersNATIONAL OPTICAL ASTRONOMY OBSERVATORY NEWS RELEASE
Astronomers using the Gemini North and Keck II telescopes have peered inside a violent binary star system to find that one of the interacting stars has lost so much mass to its partner that it has regressed to a strange, inert body resembling no known star type.
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A close-up view of the EF Eridanus system as it might appear today given that most of the radiation emitted by the system is in the infrared part of the specrum and not visible to the human eye. Credit: Gemini Observatory/Jon Lomberg
Unable to sustain nuclear fusion at its core and doomed to orbit with its much more energetic white dwarf partner for millions of years, the dead star is essentially a new, indeterminate type of stellar object.
SOURCE: Spaceflightnow.com
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"It is high time we did field studies to assess the situation or else a big natural catastrophe could hit us anytime," said Arun Bhakta Shrestha from Nepal's Department of Hydrology and Meteorology.
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I have a hobby of collecting photos of rocks, stones, and trees that resemble human faces and bodies. One day I will upload them to a website for everyone's amusement. Here are a few of the appropriate ones.
The first one is a piece of petrified wood enveloped within a dead tree I found on the beach of Hornby Island, Canada.
The second I call the "petrified Chinaman", photographed on a black neoprene scuba dry-suit.
The third is a tree twisted to resemble a man's legs and waist, complete with a penis. Not set up, this was how I found it laying!
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Imagine if no one had ever really discovered all these dinosaurs but it was just one big conspiracy by a world government that is above any worl government. The fossils were all planted by secret agent dudes and discovered by unsuspecting archeoligists.
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Instant River Outside My House !
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This is what happens when I finally cleared my loo blockage
When I came home earlier today this is what I found !..I had the
kids in the car with me and I of course just had to drive through it
[:D][:D]....I didn't need to but I wanted to.....Yea !! [:D]....my
neighbours were standing on the opposite side and were worried that
it was going to reach their house....when I drove through it I made
a really big splash and soaked their driveway [:D][:D]....it was
embarassing because I had to turn around and go through it again to
get back to my house !!![:D][:D][:D]......for some reason they
weren't in their driveway when I came back !!!
SOURCE: ME !
Men are the same as women.... just inside out !!
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Nice happy face, Niel.
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THANKS, NEIL !!!!!!
She is cute. Is she married? [8D]
Thanks Neil [:)] I like that picture :)
Neil I think that your Hawaiian (sp) picture is fantastic !!!!!!!!!
NASA has released images of the Moon taken from its Deep Impact spacecraft - some 31 million miles from Earth.
A camera on the probe was turned back towards Earth and in a time lapse sequence, captured the moon passing in front on 29 May.
The video shows a graphic, in the corner, highlighting the position of the earth at the time of the image.
Some quality pics of the Antarctic here
http://www.leenks.com/link132921.html
ALL THESE PHOTOS ARE AMAZING!
Amazing pictures.
The Big Corona
Credit & Copyright: Koen van Gorp
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Most photographs don't adequately portray the magnificence of the Sun's corona. . . .
"Residents of Tainan learned a lesson in whale biology after the decomposing remains of a 60-ton sperm whale exploded on a busy street, showering nearby cars and shops with blood and organs and stopping traffic for hours."
Source : MSNBC
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<font size="4">Ultraviolet pictures hint at origin of Saturn's rings</font id="size4">
The best view ever of Saturn's rings in the ultraviolet indicates there is more ice toward the outer part of the rings, hinting at ring origin and evolution, say two University of Colorado at Boulder researchers involved in the Cassini mission.
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<font size="1">From the inside out, the "Cassini division" in faint red at left is followed
by the A ring in its entirety. The A ring begins with a "dirty" interior of red
followed by a general pattern of more turquoise as it spreads away from the planet,
which indicates denser material made up of ice. The red band roughly three-fourths of
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<font size="1">This image shows the outer C and inner B rings respectively from left to right,
with the inner B ring beginning a little more than halfway across the image. The general pattern
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The ring system begins from the inside out with the D, C, B and A rings followed by
the F, G and E rings. The red in both images indicates sparser ringlets likely made of "dirty," and possibly smaller, particles than in the denser,
icier turquoise ringlets.
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Nice pic - I've never actually seen a sundog and that's quite a good one. You can just make out the red fringe on the sundog, giving it away and showing how it's related to rainbows.
Any explanation of where the tannin is coming from? Although I doubt it does any harm I would have thought that it would be regarded as pollution (and if tannin is getting into the creek system then it's possible that more harmful substances could too).
Thanks LeeE...sorry for the delayed reply. Unfortunately no source for the tannin is indicated !..sorry.
An Airplane in Front of the Moon
Credit & Copyright: Chris Thomas
... in the words of the photographer, "a nerve of steel".
he is threatening to put the original raw file on web - this would allow much more detailed checking.
A Sheepy in Front of the Moon
Credit & Copyright: RD
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Bonafide Doctored photo !
... How this particular rock acquired its shape and how it was placed in its current position is a mystery.
Hubble's Lagoon
Credit: NASA, ESA, Hubble Space Telescope
Like brush strokes on a canvas, ridges of color seem to flow across this scene.
These color-coded images are the combination of individual exposures taken in July and September, 1995 with Hubble’s Wide Field and Planetary Camera 2 (WFPC2) through three narrow-band filters (red light — ionized sulphur atoms, blue light — double ionized oxygen atoms, green light — ionized hydrogen).
"Residents of Tainan learned a lesson in whale biology after the decomposing remains of a 60-ton sperm whale exploded on a busy street, showering nearby cars and shops with blood and organs and stopping traffic for hours."
Source : MSNBC
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Nice picture Neil - Naked Astronomy dealt with crepuscular rays and their weird opposites a few podcasts ago
Saw some lovely crepuscular rays this morning, on the way to work. Sunlight breaking through the heavy early morning cloud, before the wind came up and blew them away, only to be replaced with heavy rain now in the evening.
Lightning Display on Ikaria Island, Greece
Sheepy, I was in moving traffic, and the camera was at work, with flat batteries.
Lightning Display on Ikaria Island, Greece
Is that Zeus taking revenge on the Greek Bankers and Politicians for mortgaging the Parthenon?
Aurora Australishttp://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/station/multimedia/gallery/iss029e008433.html
This is one of a series of night time images photographed by one of the Expedition 29 crew members from the International Space Station. It features Aurora Australis, seen from a point over the southeast Tasman Sea near southern New Zealand.
If bloated that could be due to it being an ex-possom.
[ if you haven't guessed the display is in binary ]Where are the DIP switches?
We see gamma-ray bursts, one of the most distant phenomena we know about in the Universe, we see bursts from soft gamma-ray repeaters in our galaxy, flashes of gamma rays from solar flares, our solar neighborhood -- and now we're also seeing gamma rays from thunderstorms right here on Earth," said Julie McEnery, Fermi project scientist at Nasa.Antimatter (Positrons), and their gamma decomposition products have already been detected from terrestrial thunderstorms.
Unseasonal but impressive ...I think this is the source for the snowflake photo, although I don't see that exact one.
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Neil,
I would imagine your car would have pretty good fuel efficiency.
But, here in the USA, Horsepower is King....
Any estimates of the total power output?
Unusual atmospheric effect...
Don't ask me what it is cos I dunno !!
Unusual atmospheric effect...
which looks like a circumzenithal arc ... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Circumzenithal_arc
All they need would be a few underwater inhabitants for the underwater park.
National Geographic (http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2011/01/pictures/110105-underwater-sculpture-park-garden-cancun-mexico-caribbean-pictures-photos-science/)
...I'm sure I saw a snowflake like that last year too...I'll go see if I can find it ! [;)]
...I'm sure I saw a snowflake like that last year too...I'll go see if I can find it ! [;)]
You won't find a snowflake with 20-something-fold radial symmetry like the above patterns : snowflakes only come in the 6-fold variety (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/c2/SnowflakesWilsonBentley.jpg).
[ Hexagonal cymatic patterns are possible though ... ]
Talk about adaptation! This impala from the Kruger National Park in South African is now a mobile home for a spider with the spider's web spun between the impala's two horns. The impala had the misfortune to walk into the spiders web, and it seems to have settled in for a permanent stay!
Iceland is a wonderful country; I would even say that it is a true paradise for all the photo shooting-lovers. But what has become a real discovery for me is the bird’s eye view of the rivers flowing along the black volcanic sand. It is an inexpressible combination of colors, lines, and patterns. The photo represents the mouth of the river falling into the ocean. [...] A little bit upstream there is a yellow-colored brook flowing into the river, but yellow currents fail to mix with the main water flow. One can estimate the scale judging by the car tracks that are clearly seen on the black sand. This is just a river, just a volcano, just our planet.
...it must have been 3 or 4 snowflakes overlapped then !
12-Sided Snowflakeshttps://www.its.caltech.edu/~atomic/snowcrystals/class/class.htm
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Loving the Fulgurite, thanks sheepy!
Frost Sparkles
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Photographer: Jan Koeman; Jan's Web site
Summary Authors: Jan Koeman; Jim Foster
The photo above shows frost crystals gleaming like the bulbs on a Christmas tree in the early morning sunlight. It was taken in the Lofoten Islands of Norway on October 15, 2012. I used a long 300 mm lens with full aperture to snap the picture. These were the first such crystals of the autumn. The brightly coloured spheres are referred to as sparkles. Like halos, they tend to be found roughly 22 degrees from the Sun. It's easier to notice the sparkle colours if you purposely de-focus your vision or if you stand further away. This allows only a fraction of the dispersed sunlight to enter your eyes. If you stand too close, the crystals will appear devoid of colour. Photo taken on October 15, 2012.
I'd like to see this with my own eyes, what time of the year is the best for this sight seeing and what do I need to get there? Just a back pack and foot?
Three Parts Of the Night Sky
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Photographer: Marcelo Zurita
Summary Authors: Marcelo Zurita; Jim Foster
In this one photo I was able to capture cloud-to-cloud lightning (at bottom), a starry sky above the storm clouds and a dazzling meteor. It was taken from a rural area in Brazil's eastern-most state of Paraiba. My attention was actually on the distant storm on the horizon but as I snapped the shutter a meteor passed through the field of view. The lightning is at an altitude of perhaps 40,000 ft (12,192 m); the meteor is streaking by 70 mi (112 km) or so above the Earth's surface; the brightest star in the frame, Menkar (at upper right center in the constellation of Cetus), lies approximately 250 light years from our solar system.
Photo Details: Camera Model: NIKON D5100; Focal Length: 14.0mm (35mm equivalent: 21mm); Aperture: ƒ/5.0; Exposure Time: 30.000 s; ISO equiv: 800; Software: GIMP 2.8.14.
African Skull Fills Gap, Fuels Debate
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Remains of the hominids that lived in Africa between a million and half a million years ago are frustratingly rare in the fossil record. Bones from this time period have been recovered in Europe and Asia, but the paucity of finds from Africa has prevented a full understanding of just what members of the species Homo erectus looked like. Indeed, some paleontologists posit that hominids from this time period should be divided into multiple lineages, whereas others suggest that there was simply wide variation within H. erectus. A discovery described today in the journal Science is helping to fill the fossil gap.
Richard Potts of the National Museum of Natural History in Washington, D.C., and his colleagues found 11 fragments of a single hominid skull during excavations at an archaeological site in Olorgesailie, Kenya. Together these finds mark the first discovery of ancient human bone at the site since exploration began in 1942. Based on radiometric dating and sedimentary evidence, the team estimates that the fossil is between 900,000 and 970,000 years old. The skull is from an adult or near-adult and shares some features with H. erectus. If it is a member of this species, it is a very petite representative. The researchers note that it is the smallest individual yet known from the time interval spanning 1.7 million and half a million years ago. Because many of the tools recovered from the same site are large and would have required significant strength and size to handle, Potts and his collaborators conclude that there was wide physical variation in the population to which this hominid belonged, with both large and small individuals present.
Other researchers interpret the new find differently, however. “[The skull] doesn't look like anything else we know so far,” contends Jeffrey H. Schwartz of the University of Pittsburgh, who penned an accompanying commentary in Science. He argues that a number of the fossils categorized as H. erectus show too much variation from the original, or type, H. erectus skull discovered in the late 19th century in Java to be considered members of the same species.
SOURCE SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN.COM
Men are the same as women...just inside out ! ;D
Beautiful Bug found in South AfricaThat doesn’t look real. Not trying to pull the wool over our eyes are you ;D
Beautiful Bug found in South AfricaThat doesn’t look real. Not trying to pull the wool over our eyes are you ;D
Is it some kind of mantis?
Do ewe have a name for it?
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Pseudocreobotra wahlbergii.
Two of my vintage microscopes a 1910. Spencer Buffalo and a 1940's Wattson.
They look fantastic. Did you buy them brand new ?Thankfully no but my grandfather did. LOL.
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STUNNING !!
(https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/CFOXpi6b3TLuv4Tlz7ywLZ1ZOMeSnMWxS5_gpxSdlkT-dguCSNQ_n4K7l2Y1CUHfvien03YGkjXiW9rmS5VXSDvmM4bcGepxF3RzftgfGlRzWlHBZ7anI488kdUrXCyttC1V8_R9C-w=w2400)Very nice image how was this captured.
STUNNING !!
The Moment Mercury Passes In Front Of The SunYes, our sun is rather small yet so big.
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And yet there are stars out there which make our Sun appear akin the size of Mercury. INSANE !!!
Please do not converse about the photos in this forum, it's intended as an image library. Instead start a separate thread to discuss them.LOL
Did Johnny take his cricket bat with him?Good one. No, we never got to go inside but it was a nice day out. This was in 2013.
Did Johnny take his cricket bat with him?
Is that a 'Men At Work' reference ?It's the movie called the dish. I like men at work.
Is that a 'Men At Work' reference ?It's the movie called the dish. I like men at work.
My favourite trackMe too I have a handful of favourite songs and this one is most defiantly one of them. Thanks for sharing.
It references Johnny playing Cricket !