The Picture Thread

CANtalk

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CrazyDiamond

HAL is a StarChild
Moon, Mercury over Medicina Radio Astronomical Station, near Bologna, Italy 🇮🇹.


An Eagle shaped aurora over Grotfjord, Norway 🇳🇴.


A Nova, a thermonuclear explosion on the surface of a white dwarf star, from 2016 above Wat Mahathat in Sukhothai, Thailand 🇹🇭.


Milky Way over Naufragio del Chubasco, a shipwreck close the nearly abandoned town of Cabo Raso, Argentina 🇦🇷. In addition to the Milky Way in this image are the Large and Small Magellanic Clouds, stars including Canopus and Altair, planets including Mars and Neptune, and nebulas including the Lagoon, Carina, and the Coal Sack.


First, slanting down from the upper left and far in the distance is the central band of our Milky Way Galaxy. More modestly, slanting down from the upper right and high in Earth's atmosphere is a bright meteor. The dim band of light across the central diagonal is zodiacal light: sunlight reflected from dust in the inner Solar System. The green glow on the far right is aurora high in Earth's atmosphere. The bright zigzagging bright line near the bottom is just a light that was held by the scene-planning astrophotographer. Castle Hill, New Zealand 🇳🇿
 

CrazyDiamond

HAL is a StarChild
Over 60 images were stacked to capture the flow of a lightning-producing storm cloud over Colorado Springs, Colorado 🇺🇸.


Perseids meteor shower over Four Gilrs Mountain Pleaides central China 🇨🇳. The Pleaides open star cluster appears toward the upper right, while numerous emission nebulas are visible in red, many superposed on the diagonal band of the Milky Way.


Supermoon over Bellver Castle, Palma de Mallorca, Balearic Islands of Spain 🇪🇸.


Moonset over New York Harbor 🇺🇸.


Red aurora near Flinders, Victoria, Australia 🇦🇺


Earth 🌏 from the ISS in 2015. First, visible at the top, are parts of the space station itself including solar panels. Just below the station is the band of our Milky Way Galaxy, glowing with the combined light of billions of stars, but dimmed in patches by filaments of dark dust. The band of red light just below the Milky Way is airglow -- Earth's atmosphere excited by the Sun and glowing in specific colors of light. Green airglow is visible below the red. Of course that's our Earth below its air, with the terminator between day and night visible near the horizon. As clouds speckle the planet, illumination from a bright lightning bolt is seen toward the lower right.
 

macbill

Oh No! Mr macbill!!
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This stern wheeler was used in the Jody Foster/Mel Gibson movie "Maverick", and they shot some footage of it sailing through Eastern Oregon on the Columbian River.
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smokestacks are fake and are laid down while passing under the Interstate Bridge.
 
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florduh

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Vietnamese revolutionary Võ Thị Thắng smiling after being sentenced to 20 years of hard labor by the South Vietnamese fascist puppet government in 1968.

She replied to the judge: "Your regime won’t last that long." She was right! It fell 50 years ago today.

This photo came to be known as The Smile of Victory

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After being released from the labor camp she went on to serve as a member of the Vietnamese National Assembly.

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She also became the chairwoman of the Vietnam-Cuba Friendship Association

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