city of london, london, mar 2026
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Why are there three arches across the sky instead of two? Last month, after being dropped off by a helicopter at a high mountain peak in the Alps near the Swiss Italian border, an adventurous astrophotographer expected two arches of our Milky Way galaxy to be visible during the night. These were the inner arch looking in toward the center of our galaxy on the left, visible just before sunrise, and the outer arch on the right visible just after sunset. But there were three arches. The surprised astrophotographer soon realized that the sky was so dark that an entire arc of faint zodiacal light was also noticeable -- sunlight scattered by inner Solar System dust. And it artfully connected the two Milky Way arches! The next morning a helicopter picked the astrophotographer back up, and after 40 hours of processing and combining that night's images, the featured triple-arch 360-degree panorama resulted.
Keyboard and Coffee Mug
23 October 2024
Sony HVR-HD1000E
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Something new today :) my first youtube video, 3 seconds vlog - little "video haiku" to accompany the blog. I'll be posting them on my channel occasionally.
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dark clouds gather, andrespol, apr 2026
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The best way to see comet R3 PanSTARRS’s long tail is with a camera. This week, the recently brightened comet appears in northern skies to the east just before dawn, but is only barely visible to the unaided eye. The many-degree ion tail captured on long duration camera exposures is not unusual for a comet - it is primarily due to the Earth's nearly sideways view of the tail as it points away from the Sun. In the featured image taken last week, Comet C/2025 R3 (PanSTARRS) showed off its flowing tail through a valley between two peaks in the Himalayan mountains of India. The comet passed its closest to the Sun yesterday. As it nears its closest approach to Earth next week, a bushy dust tail may become visible. The comet is slowly moving out of northern skies and by the end of the month will be visible after sunset in southern skies as it fades and leaves our Solar System.
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Have you ever had stars in your eyes? It appears that the eye on the left does, and moreover, it appears to be gazing at even more stars. The featured 27-frame mosaic was taken in 2019 from Ojas de Salar in the Atacama Desert of Chile. The eye is actually a small lagoon captured reflecting the dark night sky as the Milky Way Galaxy arched overhead. The seemingly smooth band of the Milky Way is really composed of billions of stars, but decorated with filaments of light-absorbing dust and red-glowing nebulas. Additionally, both Jupiter (slightly left the galactic arch) and Saturn (slightly to the right) are visible. The lights of small towns dot the unusual vertical horizon. The rocky terrain around the lagoon appears to some more like the surface of Mars than our Earth.
The world's largest and tallest indoor waterfall, 40 metres (130 ft) high.
Author: Timothy A. Gonsalves
Delivery access at the Gemini building
Eindhoven University of Technology
1 June 2025
Canon EOS 500D
Ingenuity made history as the first aircraft ever to achieve a powered and controlled flight outside Earth on April 19, 2021. Originally planned for only five flights, it ultimately completed 72 flights over nearly three years before its mission ended in January 2024.
Small diodes (visible more clearly in this image of helicopter) appear as small protrusions on the top of the helicopter's solar panel. The panel and the two 4-foot (1.2-meter) counter-rotating rotors have accumulated a fine coating of dust. The metalized insulating film covering the exterior of the helicopter's fuselage appears to be intact. Ingenuity's color, 13-megapixel, horizon-facing terrain camera can be seen at the center-bottom of the fuselage.
NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, which is managed for NASA by Caltech in Pasadena, California, built and manages operations of the Perseverance rover. Arizona State University leads the operations of the Mastcam-Z instrument, working in collaboration with Malin Space Science Systems in San Diego, on the design, fabrication, testing, and operation of the cameras, and in collaboration with the Niels Bohr Institute of the University of Copenhagen on the design, fabrication, and testing of the calibration targets.
The Ingenuity Mars Helicopter was built by JPL, which manages the project for NASA Headquarters. It is supported by NASA's Science Mission Directorate. NASA's Ames Research Center in California's Silicon Valley and NASA's Langley Research Center in Hampton, Virginia, provided significant flight performance analysis and technical assistance during Ingenuity's development. AeroVironment Inc., Qualcomm, and SolAero also provided design assistance and major vehicle components. Lockheed Martin Space designed and manufactured the Mars Helicopter Delivery System.
Author: NASA/JPL-Caltech/ASU
Evening Photography Downtown
18-Septemberplein, Eindhoven, NL
30 May 2025
Canon EOS 500D
„Michel“ & „Telemichel“ captured on 250T by Silbersalz35 with my CanonA1 through a Maginon 100mm-500mm Telelens.
The Teichschlucht is a wildly romantic gorge in the southern Black Forest. A narrow stream has carved its way deep into the rock here, creating a narrow, rocky landscape with steep slopes, waterfalls, and moss-covered rocks. Narrow paths and footbridges lead through the valley, making the gorge an impressive natural experience.
The adjacent protected forest is a strictly protected forest area. In a protected forest, humans no longer interfere with natural development. Old trees are allowed to die and remain as deadwood, creating a pristine, structurally rich forest with high biodiversity. Mosses, fungi, insects, and rare bird species find valuable habitat here. The pond gorge and protected forest exemplify the wild, natural side of the Black Forest and stand for consistent nature and species conservation.
Attribution: Dietmar Rabich / Wikimedia Commons / “Gütenbach, Teichschlucht -- 2025 -- 7668” / CC BY-SA 4.0
Key Monastery is a monastery belonging to the Gelugpa school of Indo-Tibetan Buddhism, located at an elevation of 4,166 metres (13,668 ft) on a hill rising above the Spiti Valley in the northern Indian state of Himachal Pradesh. Claimed to have been founded in the 11th century, the monastery is the largest in Spiti and is home to a couple of hundred monks. Pictured here in winter, with the Himalayas in the background and the Spiti river flowing through the snow-covered valley below it.
Author: Kulbhushan Singh Suryawanshi
The Baspa Valley is the river valley of the Baspa River, which is fed by Himalayan glaciers and flows through the district of Kinnaur, in the northern Indian state of Himachal Pradesh, until it meets the Sutlej. This photograph shows a panoramic view of the Baspa Valley covered in snow in March 2025. The town of Sangla is on the right-hand side of the image.
Author: UnpetitproleX
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