Warped Sky: Star Trails over Arches National Park
* Image Credit & Copyright: Vincent Brady

Explanation:
What's happened to the sky? A time warp, of sorts, and a digital space warp too. The time warp occurs because this image captured in a single frame a two and a half hour exposure of the night sky. As a result, prominent star trails are visible. The space warp occurs because the picture is actually a full 360 degree panorama, horizontally compressed to fit your browser. As the Earth rotated, stars appeared to circle both the North Celestial Pole, on the left, and the South Celestial Pole, just below the horizon on the right. The above panorama over Arches National Park in Utah, USA, was captured two weeks ago during early morning hours. While the eye-catching texture of ancient layered sandstone covers the image foreground, twenty-meter tall Delicate Arch is visible on the far right, and the distant arch of our Milky Way Galaxy is visible near the image center.

https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap140317.html

#space #earth #astrophotography #photography #astroart #art #science #nature

Little Planet Astro Camp
* Image Credit & Copyright: György Soponyai

Explanation:
Day and night on this little planet look a lot like day and night on planet Earth. In fact, the images used to construct the little planet projection, a digitally warped and stitched mosaic covering 360x180 degrees, were taken during day and night near Tarján, Hungary, planet Earth. They span a successful 33-hour-long photo experiment at July's Hungarian Astronomical Association Astro Camp. The time-series composite follows the solar disk in 20 minute intervals from sunrise to sunset and over six hours of star trails in the northern night sky centered on the North Celestial Pole near bright star Polaris. The orbiting International Space Station traced the offset arc across the northern night. Below the little planet's nightside horizon, red light lamps of fellow astro-campers left the night-long, dancing trails.

https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap160902.html

#space #earth #astrophotography #photography #astroart #art #science #nature

Bow Tie Moon and Star Trails
* Image Credit & Copyright: Haitong Yu

Explanation:
On January 31, a leisurely lunar eclipse was enjoyed from all over the night side of planet Earth, the first of three consecutive total eclipses of the Moon. This dramatic time-lapse image followed the celestial performance for over three hours in a combined series of exposures from Hebei Province in Northern China. Fixed to a tripod, the camera records the Full Moon sliding through a clear night sky. Too bright just before and after the eclipse, the Moon's bow tie-shaped trail grows narrow and red during the darker total eclipse phase that lasted an hour and 16 minutes. In the distant background are the colorful trails of stars in concentric arcs above and below the celestial equator.

https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap180208.html

#space #earth #astrophotography #photography #astroart #art #science #nature

Little Planet Lookout
* Image Credit & Copyright: Gyorgy Soponyai

Explanation:
Don't panic. This little planet projection looks confusing, but it's actually just a digitally warped and stitched, nadir centered mosaic of images that covers nearly 360x180 degrees. The images were taken on the night of October 31 from a 30 meter tall hill-top lookout tower near Tatabanya, Hungary, planet Earth. The laticed lookout tower construction was converted from a local mine elevator. Since planet Earth is rotating, the 126 frames of 75 second long exposures also show warped, concentric star trails with the north celestial pole at the left. Of course at this location the south celestial pole is just right of center but below the the little planet's horizon. the little planet's horizon.

https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap181109.html

#space #earth #astrophotography #photography #astroart #art #science #nature

Mount Everest Star Trails
* Image Credit & Copyright: Jeff Dai (TWAN)

Explanation:
The highest peak on planet Earth is framed in this mountain and night skyscape. On September 30, the digital stack of 240 sequential exposures made with a camera fixed to a tripod at an Everest Base Camp captured the sheer north face of the Himalayan mountain and foreground illuminated by bright moonlight. Taken over 1.5 hours, the sequence also recorded colorful star trails. Reflecting the planet's daily rotation on its axis, their motion is along gentle concentric arcs centered on the south celestial pole, a point well below the rugged horizon. The color of the trails actually indicates the temperatures of the stars. Blueish hues are from hotter stars, and yellow to reddish hues are from stars cooler than the Sun.

https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap181201.html

#space #earth #astrophotography #photography #astroart #art #science #nature

The Windmill and the Star Trails
* Image Credit & Copyright: Antonio Gonzalez

Explanation:
Stars can't turn these old wooden arms, but it does look like they might in this scene from a rotating planet. The well-composed night skyscape was recorded from Garafia, a municipality on the island of La Palma, Canary Islands, planet Earth. The center of the once working windmill, retired since 1953, is lined-up with the north celestial pole, the planet's rotation axis projected on to the northern sky. From a camera fixed to a tripod, the star trails are a reflection of the planet's rotation traced in a digital composite of 39 sequential exposures each 25 seconds long. Brought out by highlighting the final exposure in the sequence, the stars themselves appear at the ends of their short concentric arcs. A faint band of winter's Milky Way and even a diffuse glow from our neighboring Andromeda Galaxy also shine in the night.

https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap200417.html

#space #earth #astrophotography #photography #astroart #art #science #nature #education

North Celestial Aurora
* Image Credit & Copyright: Chirag Upreti

Explanation:
Graceful star trail arcs reflect planet Earth's daily rotation in this colorful night skyscape. To create the timelapse composite, on May 12 consecutive exposures were recorded with a camera fixed to a tripod on the shores of the Ashokan Reservoir, in the Catskills region of New York, USA. North star Polaris is near the center of the star trail arcs. The broad trail of a waxing crescent Moon is on the left, casting a strong reflection across the reservoir waters. With intense solar activity driving recent geomagnetic storms, the colorful aurora borealis or northern lights, rare to the region, shine under Polaris and the north celestial pole.

https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap240518.html

#space #earth #astrophotography #photography #astroart #art #science #nature #education

Sky Full of Arcs
* Image Credit & Copyright: Rory Gannaway

Explanation:
On August 11 a Rocket Lab Electron rocket launched from a rotating planet. With a small satellite on board its mission was dubbed A Sky Full of SARs (Synthetic Aperture Radar satellites), departing for low Earth orbit from Mahia Peninsula on New Zealand's north island. The fiery trace of the Electron's graceful launch arc is toward the east in this southern sea and skyscape, a composite of 50 consecutive frames taken over 2.5 hours. Fixed to a tripod, the camera was pointing directly at the South Celestial Pole, the extension of planet Earth's axis of rotation in to space. But no bright star marks that location in the southern hemisphere's night sky. Still, the South Celestial Pole is easy to spot. It lies at the center of the concentric star trail arcs that fill the skyward field of view.

https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap240817.html

#space #earth #astrophotography #photography #astroart #art #science #nature #education

A little mushroom village in the hollow of a mossy stump right there on the trail—how could I resist?

#PNW #USA #WA #ThurstonCounty #CSF #Spring #Nature #Plants #Moss #Fungi #Mushrooms #Trails #TrailRunning #Outdoors #Photography #MobilePhotography

We visited for free this amazing cave. I think it has the tallest formation of stalactites in the world. 32 meters.

There are people in these photos if you look carefully 😁

In this care there were people living some 25.000 years ago. Nuts! And cave hyenas. And they discovered cave paintings there that could be the oldest in all human species history, some 42.000 years ago made by Neanderthals. But still they need to confirm this.

The Nerja Cave - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caves_of_Nerja

This is me down there...

Mind blowing experience. You have to visit this cave if you can. Put it on your bucked list. The photos do no justice to how amazing the experience was. And from 9:30 every day they provide free tickets if you manage to book them.

Fantastic!

Of course we will make a video about this for our TROMhome channel - https://videos.trom.tf/c/tromhome/videos

#cave #nerja #nature #spain

I rarely see such articles:

"Enough with unicorns and dinosaurs – show children the magic of real, living animals instead" - https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/mar/13/children-unicorns-dinosaurs-living-animals-environmentalists

Congrats. We need more of these! And TROMnews is meant to bring such articles to light.

The real world is many times more mindblowing than any movie, book, or story humans have invented. Not to mention it is real. If we want people to care about it, then they have to know about it. Expose children to real wonders, real stories, real life.

#nature #education

Enough with unicorns and dinosaurs – show children the magic of real, living animals instead

Put up pictures of lemurs, penguins and wolves, and introduce tomorrow’s environmentalists to the amazing nature in our world, says author Isabel Losada

^{Isabel Losada (The Guardian)}

Sometimes for an artist, gaining appreciation matters less than quality. Doing the job well can be enough. At the least, it may be enough to make the artist keep creating great works.

http://www.notzen.net/2014/03/not-zen-103-job-well-done.html

#notzen #zen #taoism #nature #isolation #mywork #zensunday

Property is not a universal concept. It must grow from place to place and from time to time. So we have grown to understand the concept of ownership must include responsibility for the consequences of it.

http://www.notzen.net/2014/06/not-zen-114-property.html

#notzen #nature #property #selfishness #samsara #ownership #land #environment #buddhism #dao #taoism

You've probably heard that "we are stardust," but this graphic breaks it down further & tells you what kind of stars your dust came from--and which elements didn't come from stars at all.

https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/13873/ #science #nature #space

You perceive what a dog is thinking. You understand a bee, a crab, or a raccoon. And they know you.

We are connected.

http://www.notzen.net/2014/12/not-zen-141-logos.html

#notzen #taoism #stoicism #nature #mywork #empathy #zensunday

We may be loving and merciful out of the kindness of our spirits. But it is practical, too. Kind deeds may return to us. They can fill the whole world, even in bitter times.

https://www.notzen.net/2012/01/not-zen-2-mercy-in-summer-when-land-was.html

#notzen #mercy #dao #taoism #love #nature

There is no virtue in arguing to prove one's cleverness but there's no virtue in ignorance, either.

http://www.notzen.net/2015/02/not-zen-148-immunity.html

#notzen #taoism #nature #disease #immunity #vaccination #laotze #zensunday

I think if I lived 678 years I would never get bored and I would have new projects to do all the time. I feel like I want to do a lot. And I do a lot every day, but the days are too short for my motivation and drive. The weeks, the months, are flying by so fast. The years, still more ahead than behind, but soon they will balance, and then you'll ride the ones ahead. But it's all about making the best of this ride, even tho too short.

This year we have a motorhome, very little money, and a lot of plans.

Make sure you follow us on Peertube https://videos.trom.tf/c/tromhome/videos - we will go chase the darkest skies in Spain, meet with some wonderful friends from the project, volunteer, and do a lot.

#trom #tromsite #motorhome #spain #vanlife #exploring #nature #tromhome

On dirait une forêt, mais il s'agit en réalité d'un seul arbre de 47 000 troncs qui couvre une superficie de 42,6 hectares dans l'Utah 🇺🇸.

Son âge est estimé entre 16 000 et 80 000 ans, faisant de lui le plus vieil organisme vivants sur Terre 👇

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-024-03570-4

#nature #terre

The world’s oldest tree? Genetic analysis traces evolution of iconic Pando forest

A vast colony of aspen clones could hold clues about how ancient organisms protect their genomes from harmful mutations.

^{Kudiabor, Helena}

A little break from my recent Scotland photography run.

With the recent trend of murky, overcast and windless conditions here, we enjoyed a stroll around the Ingleborough Estate Nature Trail in Clapham, to capture the last of this year's autumn colours. 👍

#landscape #landscapephotography #nature #travel #yorkshiredales #northyorkshire #yorkshire #uk #britain #england #autumn #fall

I feel like we could all use some good news right now, so here you go: Bright comet Tsuchinshan-ATLAS will become visible in the evening sky starting tomorrow night.

Clear view to the west essential. Sharp eyes highly recommended. Pointers at the link.

https://skyandtelescope.org/press-releases/bright-comet-evening-view/ #space #science #astronomy #nature #photography

The Grab - https://www.videoneat.com/documentaries/26145/the-grab/

Watch this documentary to see how governments and companies go after buying Earth resources from other tribes, in all sorts of terrible ways. From arable land to water. In a crazy race to get enough for their own tribe because of the impacts of climate change that will devastate vast areas on this planet.

This terrible mentality of trying to survive and thrive at the expense of the rest, as if we are not living on the same planet. Same spaceship.

Very telling documentary. Some 10 years in the making.

#documentary #nature #resources #water #agriculture #TradeRuinsEverything #climatechange #climate

An early morning visitor. Think it flew in while I had the windows open last night. Description in alt-text.

📍 #Aizawl, #Mizoram

#Nature #Wildlife #Insects #Mothstodon #mothmania #MothsMatter #TeamMoth #Lepidoptera

What is "normal" anyway?

Astronomers have found multi-planet systems around a number of nearby stars, but none that's much like our own. They're not a lot like each other, either.

We still don't know what a normal planetary system looks like, or if there even is such a thing.

https://astrobiology.com/2024/01/unraveling-the-mysteries-of-planet-formation-and-evolution-in-a-distant-solar-system.html #science #nature #astronomy

Young marmot, last year somewhere in Switzerland. We spent the night nearby, and were planning to shoot the Milky Way in the night. Unfortunately, the night turned out cloudy, so no luck there! But the luck returned in the morning, with a family of young marmots frolicking around.

#cute #marmot #mountains #nature #pets #switzerland #wildanimals #wildlife #wildlifephotography

Dreaming of Provence
By Ludmila Gorbunova ©

#art #nature #landscape #France

Lieu de Reve
By Lee Campbell ©

leecampbell.co.uk

#art #nature #landscape

Let me walk in peace,

Live life without ENDLESS rules.

Free. Thinking. Human.

Catching the Breeze art print -- https://2-steve-henderson.pixels.com/featured/catching-the-breeze-steve-henderson.html

#ocean #beach #sunset #oregon #woman #beauty #art #artwork #artist #freedom #stevehenderson #fediverse #fediart #mastodon #mastoart #fedigiftshop #haiku #poem #poetry #poet #writingcommunity #writing #thoughts #poetrycommunity #buyintoart #ayearforart #sunset #twilight #fabric #nature #coast #sea #barefoot #breeze #peace #calm #humanity #travel