A Quiet Moment.

A Quiet Moment.
A Quiet Moment.
A Quiet Moment.
A Quiet Moment.

A quiet moment.

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Milky Way Over The Pinnacles In Australia : What Strange World Is This? Earth. In The Foreground Of The

Milky Way over the Pinnacles in Australia : What strange world is this? Earth. In the foreground of the featured image are the Pinnacles, unusual rock spires in Nambung National Park in Western Australia. Made of ancient sea shells (limestone), how these human-sized picturesque spires formed remains unknown. In the background, just past the end of the central Pinnacle, is a bright crescent Moon. The eerie glow around the Moon is mostly zodiacal light, sunlight reflected by dust grains orbiting between the planets in the Solar System. Arching across the top is the central band of our Milky Way Galaxy. Many famous stars and nebulas are also visible in the background night sky. The featured 29-panel panorama was taken and composed in 2015 September after detailed planning that involved the Moon, the rock spires, and their corresponding shadows. Even so, the strong zodiacal light was a pleasant surprise. via NASA

New Sun Science Stamps from the U.S. Postal Service

To start off the summer, the U.S. Postal Service issued a set of stamps showcasing views of the Sun from our Solar Dynamics Observatory!

New Sun Science Stamps From The U.S. Postal Service

Since its launch in 2010, the Solar Dynamics Observatory (or SDO) has kept up a near-constant watch on the Sun from its vantage point in orbit around Earth. SDO watches the Sun in more than 10 different types of light, including some that are absorbed by Earth’s atmosphere so can only be seen from space. These different types of light allow scientists to study different parts of the Sun – from its surface to its atmosphere – and better understand the solar activity that can affect our technology on Earth and in space.

New Sun Science Stamps From The U.S. Postal Service

The new set of stamps features 10 images from SDO. Most of these images are in extreme ultraviolet light, which is invisible to human eyes.

Let’s explore the science behind some of the stamps!

Coronal hole (May 2016)

New Sun Science Stamps From The U.S. Postal Service

The dark area capping the northern polar region of the Sun is a coronal hole, a magnetically open area on the Sun from which high-speed solar wind escapes into space. Such high-speed solar wind streams can spark magnificent auroral displays on Earth when they collide with our planet’s magnetic field.

Solar flare (August 2011)

New Sun Science Stamps From The U.S. Postal Service

The bright flash on the Sun’s upper right is a powerful solar flare. Solar flares are bursts of light and energy that can disturb the part of Earth’s atmosphere where GPS and radio signals travel.

Active Sun (October 2014)

New Sun Science Stamps From The U.S. Postal Service

This view highlights the many active regions dotting the Sun’s surface. Active regions are areas of intense and complex magnetic fields on the Sun – linked to sunspots – that are prone to erupting with solar flares or explosions of material called coronal mass ejections.

Plasma blast (August 2012)

New Sun Science Stamps From The U.S. Postal Service

These images show a burst of material from the Sun, called a coronal mass ejection. These eruptions of magnetized solar material can create space weather effects on Earth when they collide with our planet’s magnetosphere, or magnetic environment – including aurora, satellite disruptions, and, when extreme, even power outages.

Coronal loops (July 2012)

New Sun Science Stamps From The U.S. Postal Service

These images show evolving coronal loops across the limb and disk of the Sun. Just days after these images were taken, the Sun unleashed a powerful solar flare.

Coronal loops are often found over sunspots and active regions, which are areas of intense and complex magnetic fields on the Sun.

Sunspots (October 2014)

New Sun Science Stamps From The U.S. Postal Service

This view in visible light – the type of light we can see – shows a cluster of sunspots near the center of the Sun. Sunspots appear dark because they are relatively cool compared to surrounding material, a consequence of the way their extremely dense magnetic field prevents heated material from rising to the solar surface.

For more Sun science, follow NASA Sun on Twitter, on Facebook, or on the web.

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AND YET A TRACE OF THE TRUE SELF EXISTS IN THE FALSE SELF

Whats Cookin' Good Chookin
Whats Cookin' Good Chookin

whats cookin' good chookin

Lazuli Bunting Along The Snohomish River In Snohomish.  

Lazuli bunting along the Snohomish River in Snohomish.  


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I Almost Forgot 😅 American Crow Scribbled Real Fast, Feather Shapes Are Wrong And Proportions Are

I almost forgot 😅 American Crow scribbled real fast, feather shapes are wrong and proportions are wack but it’s already tomorrow and I’m behind as is haha.

Inktober 09

Moustached Grass-Warbler (Melocichla Mentalis)

Moustached Grass-Warbler (Melocichla mentalis)

© Antoon De Vylder

We just caught our second ever real life image of a black hole and this one is in our own galactic neighborhood and the internet isn't memeing it into oblivion or even talking about it. Tragic, truly. Sad, even.

We Just Caught Our Second Ever Real Life Image Of A Black Hole And This One Is In Our Own Galactic Neighborhood
We Just Caught Our Second Ever Real Life Image Of A Black Hole And This One Is In Our Own Galactic Neighborhood

They're in love y'know. Not that you care


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