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Been there, but fortunately at another point in time! Hopefully the berms continue to hold.

Following on from my lunar bat post several days ago, here is an image I took from Noosa, Queensland, on 12 February 2014.

What is the most spook-tacular nebula in the galaxy? One contender is LDN 43, which bears an astonishing resemblance to a vast cosmic bat flying amongst the stars on a dark Halloween night. Located about 1400 light years away in the constellation Ophiuchus, this molecular cloud is dense enough to block light not only from background stars, but from wisps of gas lit up by the nearby reflection nebula LBN 7. Far from being a harbinger of death, this 12-light year-long filament of gas and dust is actually a stellar nursery. Glowing with eerie light, the bat is lit up from inside by dense gaseous knots that have just formed young stars. Credit & Copyright: Mark Hanson and Mike Selby; Text: Michelle Thaller (NASA's GSFC

It's 101 years since the birth of astronaut Alan B. Shepard Jr (18 November 1923 - 21 July 1998) - the first American to travel into space on 5 May 1961. His was a 15-minute suborbital flight. Ten years later, he walked on the Moon as commander of the Apollo 14 mission. (NASA images.)

While looking back through some older lunar images, I found one I took of a bat flying in front of the Moon three days after the first Chinese spacecraft lunar landing in 2013. #Moon #MoonPhotos #astrophotography #FullMoon

Norway's Kon-Tiki museum returns human remains to Easter Island Norway's Kon-Tiki Museum on Wednesday returned human remains taken from Easter Island by the explorer Thor Heyerdahl during his trans-Pacific raft expeditions in the 1950s.

Good to see that Norway's Kon-Tiki Museum has handed over to Easter Island/Chilean officials human remains taken from Easter Island by explorer Thor Heyerdahl in the 1950s. phys.org/news/2024-11...