Sidusglacies - ⚡️

Claude Monet’s water structure and shades, II, transparent single picture version.

A cosmic optical illusion by Hubble Space Telescope / ESA

Neighboring planets, painted by Don Dixon, 1978.

- space;the physical universe beyond the earth’s atmosphere//mod carter

A rendering (Motion Edit) of a thunderstorm, based on a single photograph of a cumulonimbus cloud lit by a lighting, captured by night from an airliner at 40,000ft (12,000m), visualize a towering cumulus convection emerging from an altocumulus cloud cover.

An altocumulus cloud cover from below.

Moon (Jun. 23, 2020)

‘Displaying the Various Phenomena of the Atmosphere’ - Diagram of Meteorology, 1846 - drawn and engraved by John Emslie. Written by James Reynolds of 174 Strand in London, 1850-1860.

Astronomy vignettes. Learning about our world. 1932.  

Where cold and warm air meet, our atmosphere churns with energy. From the turbulence of supercell thunderclouds to the immense electrical discharge of lightning, there’s much that’s breathtaking about stormy skies. Photographer Dustin Farrell explores them, with a special emphasis on lightning, in his short film, “Transient 2″. 

As seen in high-speed video, lightning strikes begin with tree-like leaders that split and spread, searching out the path of least resistance. Once that line from cloud to ground is discovered, electrons flow along a plasma channel that arcs from sky to earth. The estimated temperatures in the core of this plasma reach 50,000 Kelvin, far hotter than the Sun’s surface. It’s this heating that generates the blue-white glow of a lightning bolt. The heating also expands the air nearby explosively, producing the shock wave we hear as a crash of thunder. (Images and video credit: D. Farrell et al.; via Colossal)