View from my office window tonight over West Field, Co. Galway, Ireland. Clouds lit orange and red behind silhouetted trees on the horizon.
View from my office window looking over West Field, Co. Galway, Ireland. #Sunset #Horses #Ireland #Scape #Landscape #Sky #Clouds #CloudScape #IrishSunset #SkyScape #Photography
This image depicts a vast canyon of dust and gas in the Orion Nebula from a 3-D computer model based on observations by NASA's Hubble Space Telescope and created by science visualization specialists at the Space Telescope Science Institute (STScI) in Baltimore, Md. A 3-D visualization of this model takes viewers on an amazing four-minute voyage through the 15-light-year-wide canyon. Credit: NASA, G. Bacon, L. Frattare, Z. Levay, and F. Summers (STScI/AURA) Go here to learn more about Hubble 3D: www.nasa.gov/topics/universe/features/hubble_imax_premier... or www.imax.com/hubble/ Take an exhilarating ride through the Orion Nebula, a vast star-making factory 1,500 light-years away. Swoop through Orion's giant canyon of gas and dust. Fly past behemoth stars whose brilliant light illuminates and energizes the entire cloudy region. Zoom by dusty tadpole-shaped objects that are fledgling solar systems. This virtual space journey isn't the latest video game but one of several groundbreaking astronomy visualizations created by specialists at the Space Telescope Science Institute (STScI) in Baltimore, the science operations center for NASA's Hubble Space Telescope. The cinematic space odysseys are part of the new Imax film "Hubble 3D," which opens today at select Imax theaters worldwide. The 43-minute movie chronicles the 20-year life of Hubble and includes highlights from the May 2009 servicing mission to the Earth-orbiting observatory, with footage taken by the a...
NASA's Hubble Universe in 3-D - From Goddard Space Flight Center - https://flic.kr/p/7LM7YP
Delighted to hear it xxx
Enjoy for me 👍🤩🫂❤️
On this day in 2019, I witnessed one of the coolest things ever. A lenticular cloud lit-up by a setting sun over the Perito Morena Glacier in Argentina.
They're creepy and they're kooky
Mysterious and spooky
They're all together ooky
Reform UK are here
Albert King
#bluesmusic #blues
Photo by ©Jon Sievert
Truth. #SoberSky #RecoveryPosse
An astronaut floats alone above Earth during a spacewalk, surrounded by the blackness of space, with the blue curve of the planet visible below.
This iconic 1984 photo is often called one of the most terrifying space images ever.
During STS-41-B on Space Shuttle Challenger, astronaut Bruce McCandless II became the first person to perform an untethered spacewalk.
Image credit: NASA (Bruce McCandless II during STS-41-B)
As an old guitarist, it is important to not use guilt or shame to get yourself to play guitar. This backfires. You have to enjoy it. Just fuck around on it. Serious practice should happen occasionally but most of the time when you pick up the guitar it should make you happy.
Albert King #bluesmusic 🎶'I'll Play The Blues For You'
B.B. King with Lucille #bluesmusic
Vicksburg, Mississippi, 2007.
Photo by ©Kevin Westenberg
Image posted by astronomybot
Hubble's sharpest view of the Orion Nebula
Image date: 11 January 2006, 16:00
This dramatic image offers a peek inside a cavern of roiling dust and gas where thousands of stars are forming. The image, taken by the Advanced Camera for Surveys (ACS) aboard NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope, represe...
European Robin (Erithacus rubecula): The "Robin Redbreast" was given its nickname long before a distinction was made in the English language between "Red" & "Orange". Thank you again Matthew Cassar for sharing your lovely photo of this singing Robin taken in the UK 🎶🎵 #robin #nature #bird #wildlife
Facts, according to Pete 😳😳😳😡
B.B. King🎸🎶 #blues #bluesmusic
I think most people would prefer this. #Science
Loved his music, an intelligent man.
My favorite scene from the Bible
Here is my latest astro image; ~44 hours exposure showing the majestic barred spiral galaxy NGC 1365 located in the southern constellation of Fornax at a distance of 56 million light-years: www.rolfolsenastrophotography.com/…/Galax…/i-QVPs5Vq Visible in this deep image are several faint streams extending out from the main arms, especially along the Western and Southern edge of the galaxy (3 to 6 o'clock position). These may be remnants of mergers with smaller dwarf galaxies or perhaps structures within the spiral arms themselves. The galaxy is significantly larger than our own Milky Way, with the two main spiral arms spanning up to 200,000 light-years. The symmetrical arms curve around the entire galaxy forming an almost ring-like halo. Together with the prominent central bar the arms outline an elegant Z, making NGC 1365 one of the most striking and beautiful galaxies in the sky. Bright knots of young star clusters and red emission nebulae dot the entire galaxy, and in the centre dark dust lanes trace around a cosmic maelstrom. The active nucleus of NGC 1365 hosts a supermassive black hole with the mass of approximately 2 million solar masses and rotating near the speed of light. In the background the entire field of view is littered with distant galaxies of various sizes and shapes. Many of these can be seen through the spiral arms and tidal streams of NGC 1365. Even a couple of very distant galaxy clusters can be seen. Many of these background galaxies are so far aw...
NGC 1365 - A Cosmic Maelstrom in Fornax - From Rolf Wahl Olsen - https://flic.kr/p/2izLvCo
"These days, I’m feeling more aligned with Catholicism than I have since my first communion. I’m not alone in that," writes @sulliview.bsky.social.
"It is easy to let up on the spiritual program of action and rest on our laurels. We are headed for trouble if we do, for alcohol is a subtle foe. We are not cured of alcoholism. What we really have is a daily reprieve contingent on the maintenance of our spiritual condition."
AA, p. 85
#SoberSky
"The masters of war pretend not to know that it takes only a moment to destroy, yet a lifetime is often not enough to rebuild. They turn a blind eye to the fact that billions of dollars are spent on killing and devastation, yet the resources needed for healing, education and restoration are nowhere to be found." -Pope Leo XIV
Pope Leo XIV: Jesus told us, blessed are the peacemakers. But woe to those who manipulate religion and the very name of God for their own military, economic, or political gain, dragging that which is sacred into darkness and filth.
People asked how we got here, check out the drawing...
Happy Wednesday, it's a great day to be sober 😊
Anger or resentment is an acid that can do more harm to the vessel in which it is stored than to anything on which it is poured.
Mark Twain
#RecoveryPosse #SoberSky
