[neilep]

The Moment Mercury Passes In Front Of The Sun







And yet there are stars out there which make our Sun appear akin the size of Mercury. INSANE !!!

[neilep]

STUNNING !!

Very nice image how was this captured.

Unfortunately there is no data on the capture , photographer, or equipment used , shame.

[Just thinking]

The Moment Mercury Passes In Front Of The Sun







And yet there are stars out there which make our Sun appear akin the size of Mercury. INSANE !!!

Yes, our sun is rather small yet so big.

[Bored chemist]

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

[Just thinking]

My son Johnny on a day out at the Parkes radio telescope NSW Australia.
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Johnny and telescope.PNG (1744.51 kB . 916x821 - viewed 3573 times)

[evan_au]

Did Johnny take his cricket bat with him?

[Just thinking]

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.

[neilep]

Did Johnny take his cricket bat with him?

Is that a 'Men At Work' reference ?

[Just thinking]

Is that a 'Men At Work' reference ?

It's the movie called the dish. I like men at work.

[neilep]

Is that a 'Men At Work' reference ?

It's the movie called the dish. I like men at work.

My favourite track

It references Johnny playing Cricket !

[Just thinking]

My favourite track


It references Johnny playing Cricket !

Me too I have a handful of favourite songs and this one is most defiantly one of them. Thanks for sharing.

[evan_au]

This little diversion was a reference to the movie "The Dish", which is about the role that the Parkes radio-telescope played in televising Armstrong's first steps on the Moon, back in 1969.

There is a scene in the movie where the operators of the telescope point the dish straight up, and then play cricket in the bowl. No-one will confirm or deny that such an event actually took place.

See trailer with Sam Neil at: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0205873/

[neilep]

(18) Incredibly Rare Polka-Dotted Zebra Spotted In Kenya - YouTube

[jacklien]

Though its edges have crumbled considerably since then, the iceberg — named A-68a — is still the largest on Earth, and it's currently barreling toward an island wildlife refuge in the South Atlantic Ocean. New aerial footage taken by the United Kingdom's Royal Air Force (RAF) reveals just what that island might be up against.

For starters, the RAF footage really drives home how massive this ice giant is. (As of early April, A-68a measured about 2,000 square miles, or 5,100 square kilometers, in area, Live Science previously reported). The berg's steep walls tower 100 feet (30 meters) above the sea, according to RAF News, and are gouged with tunnels, fissures and caves. Huge chunks of ice, or "growlers," are rapidly cracking off on all sides, leaving behind a trail of debris that could impede boat traffic in the future.

[neilep]

.A Vortex Aurora over Iceland

Image Credit & Copyright:Christoper Suarez

Explanation: No, the car was not in danger of being vacuumed into space by the big sky vortex. For one reason, the vortex was really an aurora, and since auroras are created by particles striking the Earth from space, they do not create a vacuum. This rapidly developing auroral display was caused by a Coronal Mass Ejection from the Sun that passed by the Earth closely enough to cause a ripple in Earth's magnetosphere. The upper red parts of the aurora occur over 250 kilometers high with its red glow created by atmospheric atomic oxygen directly energized by incoming particles. The lower green parts of the aurora occur over 100 kilometers high with its green glow created by atmospheric atomic oxygen energized indirectly by collisions with first-energized molecular nitrogen. Below 100 kilometers, there is little atomic oxygen, which is why auroras end abruptly. The concentric cylinders depict a dramatic auroral corona as seen from the side. The featured image was created from a single 3-second exposure taken in mid-March over Lake Myvatn in Iceland.


CREDIT Astronomy Picture Of The Dayhttps://apod.nasa.gov/apod/astropix.html