Nightfall at Death Valley

Holly Calinsky Jauch posted a photo:

17 Jan 2025 12:43:32 -

Death Valley sand dunes

Holly Calinsky Jauch posted a photo:

17 Jan 2025 12:43:23 -

Starry Night ?

ale.landi651 posted a photo:

17 Jan 2025 11:51:13 -

?Cosmic Chimney?? #PerArduaAdAstra #ThroughAdversityToTheStars ? #LifeOverStrife ?

lifeoverstrife posted a photo:

#unfiltered

17 Jan 2025 10:45:37 -

The Verrazano Canal

D:> D.H.LEE posted a photo:

Insane distortion out of an ultrawide, another reason I'm phasing it out. Still, the color render and sharpness are decent when it cooperates and it adds something to this image (in this case a wave-pattern).

17 Jan 2025 09:24:14 -

A Night in Paradise

See That Now posted a photo:

EN: A night view taken from ?Hilton LaRomana Resort? (Bayahibe - Dominican Republic) hotel?s beach.

FR: Une vue nocturne prise depuis la plage de l?hôtel "Hilton LaRomana Resort" (Bayahibe - République Dominicaine).

17 Jan 2025 09:00:17 -

Dancing Couple

Unknown-Photographer posted a photo:

Christmas is an annual festival commemorating the birth of Jesus Christ, observed primarily on December 25 as a religious and cultural celebration among billions of people around the world. A liturgical feast central to Christianity, preparation for Christmas begins on the First Sunday of Advent and it is followed by Christmastide, which historically in the West lasts twelve days and culminates on Twelfth Night. Christmas Day is a public holiday in many countries, is celebrated religiously by a majority of Christians, as well as culturally by many non-Christians, and forms an integral part of the holiday season surrounding it.

There are different hypotheses regarding the date of Jesus's birth. In the early fourth century, the church fixed the date as December 25, the date of the winter solstice in the Roman calendar. It is nine months after Annunciation on March 25, also the Roman date of the spring equinox. Most Christians celebrate on December 25 in the Gregorian calendar, which has been adopted almost universally in the civil calendars used in countries throughout the world. However, part of the Eastern Christian Churches celebrate Christmas on December 25 of the older Julian calendar, which currently corresponds to January 7 in the Gregorian calendar. For Christians, believing that God came into the world in the form of man to atone for the sins of humanity rather than knowing Jesus's exact birth date is considered to be the primary purpose of celebrating Christmas.

17 Jan 2025 08:51:12 -

SKY LIGHT

paulchambers_levenbankphotography posted a photo:

I took this a few weeks ago near Comrie, Perthshire. A crystal clear night and no mood allowed for some crispy star shots.

17 Jan 2025 07:05:17 -

Watch Out For The Unicorn

k009034 posted a photo:

A man is sitting an enormous painting of a unicorn at a shopping center. He looks like he doesn't notice the giant magical creature at all.

17 Jan 2025 06:01:18 -

Jetting into space

europeanspaceagency posted a photo:

Today?s NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope Picture of the Week peers into the dusty recesses of the nearest massive star-forming region to Earth, the Orion Nebula. Just 1300 light-years away, the Orion Nebula is visible to the naked eye below the three stars that form the ?belt? in the constellation Orion. The nebula is home to hundreds of newborn stars including the subject of this image: the protostars HOPS 150 and HOPS 153.

These protostars get their names from the Herschel Orion Protostar Survey, which was carried out with ESA?s Herschel Space Observatory. The object that can be seen in the upper-right corner of this image is HOPS 150: it?s a binary system, two young protostars orbiting each other. Each has a small, dusty disc of material surrounding it that it is feeding from. The dark line that cuts across the bright glow of these protostars is a cloud of gas and dust, over 2 000 times wider than the distance between Earth and the Sun, falling in on the pair of protostars. Based on the amount of infrared versus other wavelengths of light HOPS 150 is emitting, the protostars are mid-way down the path to becoming mature stars.

Extending across the left side of the image is a narrow, colourful outflow called a jet. This jet comes from the nearby protostar HOPS 153, out of frame. HOPS 153 is a significantly younger stellar object than its neighbour, still deeply embedded in its birth nebula and enshrouded by a cloud of cold, dense gas. While Hubble cannot penetrate this gas to see the protostar, the jet HOPS 153 has emitted is brightly visible as it plows into the surrounding gas and dust of the Orion Nebula.

The transition from tightly swaddled protostar to fully fledged star will dramatically affect HOPS 153?s surroundings. As gas falls onto the protostar, its jets spew material and energy into interstellar space, carving out bubbles and heating the gas. By stirring up and warming nearby gas, HOPS 153 may regulate the formation of new stars in its neighbourhood and even slow its own growth.

[Image Description: An area in the Orion nebula filled with dark, puffy clouds. On the left side a large area of clouds, crossed by a dark bar, is lit up in red and whitish colours by a protostar within. At the other side a large jet of material ejected by the protostar appears, made of thin, wispy, blue and pink clouds. A couple of foreground stars shine brightly in front of the nebula.]

Credits: ESA/Hubble & NASA, T. Megeath; CC BY 4.0

17 Jan 2025 03:00:55 -

I.2025 ? At night

David Farreny posted a photo:

« Alors qu?on voit sur Mercure, sur Vénus, des nuages, des vicissitudes atmosphériques vivantes, la Lune est dépourvue de nuages, de mers, de fleuves, et, pourtant, des nappes d?eau, des filons d?argent se laissent très bien reconnaître en elle. [?] La Lune est le cristal sans eau qui cherche, en quelque sorte, à s?intégrer à notre mer, à étancher la soif de sa rigidité, et, pour cette raison, provoque flux et reflux. La mer s?élève, elle est sur le point de s?enfuir vers la Lune, et la Lune est sur le point de l?attirer à elle. » (G.W.F.H.)

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17 Jan 2025 01:00:59 -

The Pleiades

g.femenias posted a photo:

Nikon Z6 - Tamron SP AF 70-200 mm F/2.8 Di VC USD

314 Images processed with Nebulb and Photoshop

17 Jan 2025 00:40:56 -

Amazing Aurora

michaelewen posted a photo:

Aurora near Yellowknife, NWT Canada

17 Jan 2025 00:29:54 -

En la soledad de la noche

martinmilan73 posted a photo:

En la oscuridad de la noche tu silueta y grandeza se revelan bajo la luz selenica
Las Cañadas del Teide, Tenerife

16 Jan 2025 23:17:35 -

En la soledad de la noche

martinmilan73 posted a photo:

En la oscuridad de la noche tu silueta y grandeza se revelan bajo la luz selenica
Las Cañadas del Teide, Tenerife

16 Jan 2025 23:17:35 -

En la soledad de la noche

martinmilan73 posted a photo:

En la oscuridad de la noche tu silueta y grandeza se revelan bajo la luz selenica
Las Cañadas del Teide, Tenerife

16 Jan 2025 23:17:34 -

En la soledad de la noche

martinmilan73 posted a photo:

En la oscuridad de la noche tu silueta y grandeza se revelan bajo la luz selenica
Las Cañadas del Teide, Tenerife

16 Jan 2025 23:17:34 -

Cielo nocturno 160125-0291

Eduardo Estéllez posted a photo:

16 Jan 2025 23:12:41 -

Milky Way route.

lucian_nicu posted a photo:

8 x 15 sec exposures, stacked using Sequator.

16 Jan 2025 22:13:18 -

Under a Dark Red Sky

MomoFotografi posted a photo:

M.Zuiko 12mm F2

16 Jan 2025 19:47:46 -