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My collection of recommended links to photos of the best
Hubble Space Telescope photos and other NASA photos, incredible
landscape photos, scenic wonders, wildlife animal photos, AND the Renaissance
Art Masters, art work of the 10th through 20th Centuries from World Museums.These photos are links, to sites owned by other people, for private viewing,
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Furry
Feet - A lovely abstract, playing with eroded clay beds in a a cool
light. More Fantastic Stone Creatures - by Laurent Martres PhotoTripUSA.
Gravity
- This spectacular caprock seems to defy gravity. More Fantastic Stone
Creatures - by Laurent Martres PhotoTripUSA.
Manta
Ray - One of those magical sea animals that keep challenging my imagination.
More Fantastic Stone Creatures - by Laurent Martres PhotoTripUSA.
Jewel
Rock - Cleanly polished rock, served on a bed of sandstone. More Fantastic
Stone Creatures - by Laurent Martres PhotoTripUSA.
Gnomes
Rising - These whimsical gnomes are just waking up from a cold night.
More Fantastic Stone Creatures - by Laurent Martres PhotoTripUSA.
Auroral
Rocket Launch Credit & Copyright: Chuck Johnson (Cleary Summit)
Explanation: In this striking image, a rocket climbs skyward toward an
expansive green auroral display in the first launch of 2003 from the University
of Alaska's Poker Flat Research Range. Recorded on January 27th, the view
from Cleary Summit near Fairbanks, Alaska shows the fiery tracks of both
solid fuel stages of the Black Brant IX sounding rocket that lofted its
payload to an altitude of 385 kilometers. Compared to rockets which launch
payloads to Earth orbit and beyond, sounding rockets are small and relatively
inexpensive. They get their generic name from the nautical term "to
sound" which means to take measurements. Known as HIBAR (HIgh Bandwidth
Auroral Rocket), this experiment was designed to measure aurora related
high-frequency plasma waves which may originate thousands of kilometers
above the aurora's visible glow. Authors & editors: Robert Nemiroff
(MTU) & Jerry Bonnell (USRA) NASA Technical Rep.: Jay Norris. Specific
rights apply. A service of: LHEA at NASA / GSFC & NASA SEU Edu. Forum
& Michigan Tech. U.
Launch
of the Sun Pillar Credit & Copyright: Lauri A. Kangas Explanation:
On January 16, NASA's space shuttle Columbia roared into blue morning skies
above Kennedy Space Center on STS-107, the first shuttle mission of 2003.
But this is not a picture of that launch! It was taken on the morning of
January 16 though, at sunrise, looking eastward toward Lake Ontario from
just outside of Caledon, Ontario, Canada. In the picture a sun pillar,
sunlight reflecting from ice crystals gently falling through the cold air,
seems to shoot above the fiery Sun still low on the horizon. By chance,
fog and clouds forming over the relatively warm lake look like billowing
smoke from a rocket's exhaust plume and complete the launch illusion. Amateur
photographer Lauri Kangas stopped on his way to work to record the eye-catching
sun pillar launch. Authors & editors: Robert Nemiroff (MTU) & Jerry
Bonnell (USRA) NASA Technical Rep.: Jay Norris. Specific rights apply.
A service of: LHEA at NASA / GSFC & NASA SEU Edu. Forum & Michigan
Tech. U.
Full
Moon, Lake, and Leonids Indeed Credit & Copyright: Image: Blake
Suddeth; Haiku "Leonids Indeed": Susan Ode Explanation: Full
of itself moon - EVERYONE SHOULD LOOK AT ME. What's 33 years? And for those
who need a story ... photographer Blake Suddeth took over a hundred digital
pictures early Tuesday morning in order to capture this single, gorgeous
10 second exposure of a "Leonid of the Lake" meteor flashing
by a very full of itself moon. The dreamlike foreground lake and fog are
courtesy of Greenwood, South Carolina, USA. Authors & editors: Robert
Nemiroff (MTU) & Jerry Bonnell (USRA) NASA Technical Rep.: Jay Norris.
Specific rights apply. A service of: LHEA at NASA / GSFC & NASA SEU
Edu. Forum & Michigan Tech. U.
To
Fly Free in Space Credit: STS 41-B Crew, NASA Explanation: What would
it be like to fly free over the seas and clouds of Earth? The first to
experience such an "untethered space walk" were NASA astronauts
Bruce McCandless and Robert Stewart during Space Shuttle mission 41-B in
1984. McCandless, pictured above, used a Manned Maneuvering Unit (MMU)
to move in and around the cargo bay of the space shuttle. The MMU works
by shooting jets of nitrogen and has since been used to help deploy and
retrieve satellites. With a mass over 140 kilograms, an MMU is heavy on
Earth, but, like everything, is weightless in space. The MMU was replaced
in 2001 with the SAFER backpack propulsion unit. Authors & editors:
Robert Nemiroff (MTU) & Jerry Bonnell (USRA) NASA Technical Rep.: Jay
Norris. Specific rights apply. A service of: LHEA at NASA/ GSFC & Michigan
Tech. U.
The
Milky Way Over the French Alps Credit & Copyright: Marc Sylvestre
(Universia) Explanation: Have you ever seen the band of our Milky Way Galaxy?
Chances are you have never seen it like this -- nor could you. In a clear
sky from a dark location at the right time, a faint band of light is visible
across the sky. This band is the disk of our spiral galaxy. Since we are
inside this disk, the band appears to encircle the Earth. The above spectacular
picture is a bit of a digital trick, though. A first shot was taken in
July 2000 with the camera counter-rotating from the Earth so that the stars
appear fixed. This allowed a long exposure from which a great amount of
detail could emerge from the background star field. Later, after moonrise,
a much shorter image was taken from the same location catching details
of the French Alps near Mount Blanc, the highest mountain in Western Europe.
Reflections in the water were later enhanced digitally. Authors & editors:
Robert Nemiroff (MTU) & Jerry Bonnell (USRA) NASA Technical Rep.: Jay
Norris. Specific rights apply. A service of: LHEA at NASA/ GSFC & Michigan
Tech. U.
A
Force from Empty Space: The Casimir Effect Credit & Copyright:
Umar Mohideen (U. California at Riverside) Explanation: This tiny ball
provides evidence that the universe will expand forever. Measuring slightly
over one tenth of a millimeter, the ball moves toward a smooth plate in
response to energy fluctuations in the vacuum of empty space. The attraction
is known as the Casimir Effect, named for its discoverer, who, 50 years
ago, was trying to understand why fluids like mayonnaise move so slowly.
Today, evidence is accumulating that most of the energy density in the
universe is in an unknown form dubbed dark energy. The form and genesis
of dark energy is almost completely unknown, but postulated as related
to vacuum fluctuations similar to the Casimir Effect but generated somehow
by space itself. This vast and mysterious dark energy appears to gravitationally
repel all matter and hence will likely cause the universe to expand forever.
Understanding vacuum fluctuations is on the forefront of research not only
to better understand our universe but also for stopping micro-mechanical
machine parts from sticking together. Authors & editors: Robert Nemiroff
(MTU) & Jerry Bonnell (USRA) NASA Technical Rep.: Jay Norris. Specific
rights apply. A service of: LHEA at NASA/ GSFC & Michigan Tech. U.
Halo
of the Cat's Eye Credit: R. Corradi (Isaac Newton Group), D. Goncalves
(Inst. Astrofisica de Canarias) Explanation: The Cat's Eye Nebula (NGC
6543) is one of the best known planetary nebulae in the sky. Its haunting
symmetries are seen in the very central region of this stunning false-color
picture, processed to reveal the enormous but extremely faint halo of gaseous
material, over three light-years across, which surrounds the brighter,
familiar planetary nebula. Made with data from the Nordic Optical Telescope
in the Canary Islands, the composite picture shows emission from nitrogen
atoms as red and oxygen atoms as green and blue shades. Planetary nebulae
have long been appreciated as a final phase in the life of a sun-like star.
Only much more recently however, have some planetaries been found to have
halos like this one, likely formed of material shrugged off during earlier
active episodes in the star's evolution. While the planetary nebula phase
is thought to last for around 10,000 years, astronomers estimate the age
of the outer filamentary portions of this halo to be 50,000 to 90,000 years.
Authors & editors: Robert Nemiroff (MTU) & Jerry Bonnell (USRA)
NASA Technical Rep.: Jay Norris. Specific rights apply. A service of: LHEA
at NASA/ GSFC & Michigan Tech. U.
Colorful
Light Pillars Credit & Copyright: Walter Tape (Alaska Fairbanks),
Figure 8-1, Atmospheric Halos Explanation: How can an aurora appear so
near the ground? Pictured above are not aurora but nearby light pillars,
a local phenomenon that can appear as a distant one. In most places on
Earth, a lucky viewer can see a Sun-pillar, a column of light appearing
to extend up from the Sun caused by flat fluttering ice-crystals reflecting
sunlight from the upper atmosphere. Usually these ice crystals evaporate
before reaching the ground. During freezing temperatures, however, flat
fluttering ice crystals may form near the ground in a form of light snow,
sometimes known as a crystal fog. These ice crystals may then reflect ground
lights in columns not unlike a Sun-pillar. In the above picture, the colorful
lights causing the light pillars surround a ice-skating rink in Fairbanks,
Alaska. Authors & editors: Robert Nemiroff (MTU) & Jerry Bonnell
(USRA) NASA Technical Rep.: Jay Norris. Specific rights apply. A service
of: LHEA at NASA/ GSFC & Michigan Tech. U.
The
Pelican in the Swan Credit & Copyright: Robert Gendler Explanation:
The Pelican Nebula, also known as IC 5070, lies about 2,000 light-years
away in the high and far-off constellation of Cygnus, the Swan. This picture
spans a portion of the magnificent nebula about 30 light-years wide. Fittingly,
this cosmic pelican is found just off the east "coast" of the
North America Nebula, another surprisingly familiar looking emission nebula
in Cygnus. In fact, the Pelican and North America nebulae are part of the
same large star forming region. The two glowing nebulae appear separated
from our vantage point by a large obscuring dust cloud running across the
upper left corner in this gorgeous color view. Within the Pelican Nebula,
dark dust clouds also help define the eye and long bill, while a bright
front of ionized gas suggests the curved shape of the head and neck. Even
though it is almost as close as the Orion Nebula, the stellar nursery marked
by the Pelican and North America nebulae has proven complex and difficult
to study. Authors & editors: Robert Nemiroff (MTU) & Jerry Bonnell
(USRA) NASA Technical Rep.: Jay Norris. Specific rights apply. A service
of: LHEA at NASA/ GSFC & Michigan Tech. U.
Hoodoo
Central - A minboggling collection of hoodoos, stacked up in a remote
canyon. More Fantastic Stone Creatures - by Laurent Martres, PhotoTripUSA.
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Photo links 75
Web's Best Photo and Art Links
From Magic Mike
My collection of recommended links to photos of the best
Hubble Space Telescope photos and other NASA photos, incredible
landscape photos, scenic wonders, wildlife animal photos, AND the Renaissance
Art Masters, art work of the 10th through 20th Centuries from World Museums.These photos are links, to sites owned by other people, for private viewing,
not for commercial use.
TO SEARCH FOR A PHOTO, CLICK EDIT/FIND ON YOUR BROWSER.
Furry
Feet - A lovely abstract, playing with eroded clay beds in a a cool
light. More Fantastic Stone Creatures - by Laurent Martres PhotoTripUSA.
Gravity
- This spectacular caprock seems to defy gravity. More Fantastic Stone
Creatures - by Laurent Martres PhotoTripUSA.
Manta
Ray - One of those magical sea animals that keep challenging my imagination.
More Fantastic Stone Creatures - by Laurent Martres PhotoTripUSA.
Jewel
Rock - Cleanly polished rock, served on a bed of sandstone. More Fantastic
Stone Creatures - by Laurent Martres PhotoTripUSA.
Gnomes
Rising - These whimsical gnomes are just waking up from a cold night.
More Fantastic Stone Creatures - by Laurent Martres PhotoTripUSA.
Auroral
Rocket Launch Credit & Copyright: Chuck Johnson (Cleary Summit)
Explanation: In this striking image, a rocket climbs skyward toward an
expansive green auroral display in the first launch of 2003 from the University
of Alaska's Poker Flat Research Range. Recorded on January 27th, the view
from Cleary Summit near Fairbanks, Alaska shows the fiery tracks of both
solid fuel stages of the Black Brant IX sounding rocket that lofted its
payload to an altitude of 385 kilometers. Compared to rockets which launch
payloads to Earth orbit and beyond, sounding rockets are small and relatively
inexpensive. They get their generic name from the nautical term "to
sound" which means to take measurements. Known as HIBAR (HIgh Bandwidth
Auroral Rocket), this experiment was designed to measure aurora related
high-frequency plasma waves which may originate thousands of kilometers
above the aurora's visible glow. Authors & editors: Robert Nemiroff
(MTU) & Jerry Bonnell (USRA) NASA Technical Rep.: Jay Norris. Specific
rights apply. A service of: LHEA at NASA / GSFC & NASA SEU Edu. Forum
& Michigan Tech. U.
Launch of the Sun Pillar Credit & Copyright: Lauri A. Kangas Explanation: On January 16, NASA's space shuttle Columbia roared into blue morning skies above Kennedy Space Center on STS-107, the first shuttle mission of 2003. But this is not a picture of that launch! It was taken on the morning of January 16 though, at sunrise, looking eastward toward Lake Ontario from just outside of Caledon, Ontario, Canada. In the picture a sun pillar, sunlight reflecting from ice crystals gently falling through the cold air, seems to shoot above the fiery Sun still low on the horizon. By chance, fog and clouds forming over the relatively warm lake look like billowing smoke from a rocket's exhaust plume and complete the launch illusion. Amateur photographer Lauri Kangas stopped on his way to work to record the eye-catching sun pillar launch. Authors & editors: Robert Nemiroff (MTU) & Jerry Bonnell (USRA) NASA Technical Rep.: Jay Norris. Specific rights apply. A service of: LHEA at NASA / GSFC & NASA SEU Edu. Forum & Michigan Tech. U.
Full Moon, Lake, and Leonids Indeed Credit & Copyright: Image: Blake Suddeth; Haiku "Leonids Indeed": Susan Ode Explanation: Full of itself moon - EVERYONE SHOULD LOOK AT ME. What's 33 years? And for those who need a story ... photographer Blake Suddeth took over a hundred digital pictures early Tuesday morning in order to capture this single, gorgeous 10 second exposure of a "Leonid of the Lake" meteor flashing by a very full of itself moon. The dreamlike foreground lake and fog are courtesy of Greenwood, South Carolina, USA. Authors & editors: Robert Nemiroff (MTU) & Jerry Bonnell (USRA) NASA Technical Rep.: Jay Norris. Specific rights apply. A service of: LHEA at NASA / GSFC & NASA SEU Edu. Forum & Michigan Tech. U.
To Fly Free in Space Credit: STS 41-B Crew, NASA Explanation: What would it be like to fly free over the seas and clouds of Earth? The first to experience such an "untethered space walk" were NASA astronauts Bruce McCandless and Robert Stewart during Space Shuttle mission 41-B in 1984. McCandless, pictured above, used a Manned Maneuvering Unit (MMU) to move in and around the cargo bay of the space shuttle. The MMU works by shooting jets of nitrogen and has since been used to help deploy and retrieve satellites. With a mass over 140 kilograms, an MMU is heavy on Earth, but, like everything, is weightless in space. The MMU was replaced in 2001 with the SAFER backpack propulsion unit. Authors & editors: Robert Nemiroff (MTU) & Jerry Bonnell (USRA) NASA Technical Rep.: Jay Norris. Specific rights apply. A service of: LHEA at NASA/ GSFC & Michigan Tech. U.
The Milky Way Over the French Alps Credit & Copyright: Marc Sylvestre (Universia) Explanation: Have you ever seen the band of our Milky Way Galaxy? Chances are you have never seen it like this -- nor could you. In a clear sky from a dark location at the right time, a faint band of light is visible across the sky. This band is the disk of our spiral galaxy. Since we are inside this disk, the band appears to encircle the Earth. The above spectacular picture is a bit of a digital trick, though. A first shot was taken in July 2000 with the camera counter-rotating from the Earth so that the stars appear fixed. This allowed a long exposure from which a great amount of detail could emerge from the background star field. Later, after moonrise, a much shorter image was taken from the same location catching details of the French Alps near Mount Blanc, the highest mountain in Western Europe. Reflections in the water were later enhanced digitally. Authors & editors: Robert Nemiroff (MTU) & Jerry Bonnell (USRA) NASA Technical Rep.: Jay Norris. Specific rights apply. A service of: LHEA at NASA/ GSFC & Michigan Tech. U.
A Force from Empty Space: The Casimir Effect Credit & Copyright: Umar Mohideen (U. California at Riverside) Explanation: This tiny ball provides evidence that the universe will expand forever. Measuring slightly over one tenth of a millimeter, the ball moves toward a smooth plate in response to energy fluctuations in the vacuum of empty space. The attraction is known as the Casimir Effect, named for its discoverer, who, 50 years ago, was trying to understand why fluids like mayonnaise move so slowly. Today, evidence is accumulating that most of the energy density in the universe is in an unknown form dubbed dark energy. The form and genesis of dark energy is almost completely unknown, but postulated as related to vacuum fluctuations similar to the Casimir Effect but generated somehow by space itself. This vast and mysterious dark energy appears to gravitationally repel all matter and hence will likely cause the universe to expand forever. Understanding vacuum fluctuations is on the forefront of research not only to better understand our universe but also for stopping micro-mechanical machine parts from sticking together. Authors & editors: Robert Nemiroff (MTU) & Jerry Bonnell (USRA) NASA Technical Rep.: Jay Norris. Specific rights apply. A service of: LHEA at NASA/ GSFC & Michigan Tech. U.
Halo of the Cat's Eye Credit: R. Corradi (Isaac Newton Group), D. Goncalves (Inst. Astrofisica de Canarias) Explanation: The Cat's Eye Nebula (NGC 6543) is one of the best known planetary nebulae in the sky. Its haunting symmetries are seen in the very central region of this stunning false-color picture, processed to reveal the enormous but extremely faint halo of gaseous material, over three light-years across, which surrounds the brighter, familiar planetary nebula. Made with data from the Nordic Optical Telescope in the Canary Islands, the composite picture shows emission from nitrogen atoms as red and oxygen atoms as green and blue shades. Planetary nebulae have long been appreciated as a final phase in the life of a sun-like star. Only much more recently however, have some planetaries been found to have halos like this one, likely formed of material shrugged off during earlier active episodes in the star's evolution. While the planetary nebula phase is thought to last for around 10,000 years, astronomers estimate the age of the outer filamentary portions of this halo to be 50,000 to 90,000 years. Authors & editors: Robert Nemiroff (MTU) & Jerry Bonnell (USRA) NASA Technical Rep.: Jay Norris. Specific rights apply. A service of: LHEA at NASA/ GSFC & Michigan Tech. U.
Colorful Light Pillars Credit & Copyright: Walter Tape (Alaska Fairbanks), Figure 8-1, Atmospheric Halos Explanation: How can an aurora appear so near the ground? Pictured above are not aurora but nearby light pillars, a local phenomenon that can appear as a distant one. In most places on Earth, a lucky viewer can see a Sun-pillar, a column of light appearing to extend up from the Sun caused by flat fluttering ice-crystals reflecting sunlight from the upper atmosphere. Usually these ice crystals evaporate before reaching the ground. During freezing temperatures, however, flat fluttering ice crystals may form near the ground in a form of light snow, sometimes known as a crystal fog. These ice crystals may then reflect ground lights in columns not unlike a Sun-pillar. In the above picture, the colorful lights causing the light pillars surround a ice-skating rink in Fairbanks, Alaska. Authors & editors: Robert Nemiroff (MTU) & Jerry Bonnell (USRA) NASA Technical Rep.: Jay Norris. Specific rights apply. A service of: LHEA at NASA/ GSFC & Michigan Tech. U.
The Pelican in the Swan Credit & Copyright: Robert Gendler Explanation: The Pelican Nebula, also known as IC 5070, lies about 2,000 light-years away in the high and far-off constellation of Cygnus, the Swan. This picture spans a portion of the magnificent nebula about 30 light-years wide. Fittingly, this cosmic pelican is found just off the east "coast" of the North America Nebula, another surprisingly familiar looking emission nebula in Cygnus. In fact, the Pelican and North America nebulae are part of the same large star forming region. The two glowing nebulae appear separated from our vantage point by a large obscuring dust cloud running across the upper left corner in this gorgeous color view. Within the Pelican Nebula, dark dust clouds also help define the eye and long bill, while a bright front of ionized gas suggests the curved shape of the head and neck. Even though it is almost as close as the Orion Nebula, the stellar nursery marked by the Pelican and North America nebulae has proven complex and difficult to study. Authors & editors: Robert Nemiroff (MTU) & Jerry Bonnell (USRA) NASA Technical Rep.: Jay Norris. Specific rights apply. A service of: LHEA at NASA/ GSFC & Michigan Tech. U.
Hoodoo
Central - A minboggling collection of hoodoos, stacked up in a remote
canyon. More Fantastic Stone Creatures - by Laurent Martres, PhotoTripUSA.
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