[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.
Johnny and telescope.PNG (1744.51 kB . 916x821 - viewed 7992 times)
Johnny and telescope.PNG (1744.51 kB . 916x821 - viewed 7992 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

[neilep]

TARDIGRADES ARE GREAT















A phylum of eight-legged segmented micro-animals that have barrel-shaped bodies with four pairs of stubby legs.




They're the first animal known to survive in outer space.

• The 2014 science documentary show Cosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey mentions tardigrades in the second episode on biological evolution.
  
  
  
  
  The 2017 South Park episode "Moss Piglets" involves a science experiment in which tardigrades learn to dance to the music of Taylor Swift.
• They can go decades without food or water.
  
  
  
  
  The most remarkable feature of the tardigrades is their ability to withstand extremely low temperatures and desiccation (extreme
  
  CREDIT tardigrade - Search (bing.com)

[neilep]

.Ancient Tree in Chile Could Be World’s Oldest, Scientists Say





An ancient cypress in southern Chile could be more than 5,000 years old, making it the world’s most aged tree, new research finds.Known as “Great Grandfather,” the endangered alerce tree lies in a ravine in Alerce Costero National Park. Scientists estimated its age using computer models based on data gathered from a sample.
“This method tells us that 80 percent of all possible growth trajectories give us an age of this living tree greater than 5,000 years,” Jonathan Barichivich, an ecologist at the Climate and Environmental Sciences Laboratory in Paris, told Reuters. “There is only a 20 percent chance that the tree is younger.”
The findings suggest that the tree is older than the current record-holder, Methuselah, a 4,853-year-old bristlecone pine in the White Mountains of California. Barichivich, who led the research on Great Grandfather, said the tree could be as much as 5,484 years old.
Some scientists are skeptical of the findings, as they are based on computer modeling and have yet to be published in a peer-reviewed journal. “The only way to truly determine the age of a tree is by dendrochronologically counting the rings and that requires all rings being present or accounted for,” Ed Cook, a founding director of the Tree Ring Laboratory at Columbia University, told Science in an email.
Great Grandfather is in a precarious position, with visitors to Alerce Costero National Park often stepping on its roots and or taking pieces of its bark, Barichivich said. Drier conditions are also stressing the tree. Noting the impacts of climate change, Barichivich told Reuters that he hoped people could “think for a fraction of a second about what it means to live 5,000 years.”

CREDIT: Ancient Tree in Chile Could Be World's Oldest, Scientists Say - Yale E360

[Cassy0110]

Beautiful

[neilep]

CREDIT ME !!!!!! me me me !!..i took these photos !!..I did...CREDIT ME !!!!!!!!


what did i catch in the third piccy ?

[GaryMason]

Is that the USA flag??