Amazing picture thread

[Boon Mee]

Turf roofed farm on the Faroe Islands

[Little Chuchok]

[Boon Mee]

Astronomy Picture of the Day -- Pickering's Triangle in the Veil



Explanation: Chaotic in appearance, these filaments of shocked, glowing gas break across planet Earth's sky toward the constellation of Cygnus, as part of the Veil Nebula. The Veil Nebula itself is a large supernova remnant, an expanding cloud born of the death explosion of a massive star. Light from the original supernova explosion likely reached Earth over 5,000 years ago. Blasted out in the cataclysmic event, the interstellar shock waves plow through space sweeping up and exciting interstellar material. The glowing filaments are really more like long ripples in a sheet seen almost edge on, remarkably well separated into the glow of ionized hydrogen and sulfur atoms shown in red and green, and oxygen in blue hues. Also known as the Cygnus Loop, the Veil Nebula now spans nearly 3 degrees or about 6 times the diameter of the full Moon. While that translates to over 70 light-years at its estimated distance of 1,500 light-years, this field of view spans less than one third that distance. Identified as Pickering's Triangle for a director of Harvard College Observatory and cataloged as NGC 6979, the complex of filaments might be more appropriately known as Williamina Fleming's Triangular Wisp.

[Boon Mee]

Ice road trucking...

[Cujo]

^WOW!!!
Green you if I could but got to spread the love.

[dirk diggler]

They have just had the first fatality there when a young lady fell off while posing for a selfie.

Norway tour guide expected tragedy

Couldn't swim?

Bobo has discovered my source so I no longer need to post in this thread.

[Boon Mee]

From the Valley Fire. California right now...

[birding]

[bobo746]

[bobo746]

A barge motors through arctic sea-smoke on its way out of Portland Harbor, where the temperatures at sunrise was about minus 5 degrees Fahrenheit, Thursday, January 24, 2013, in Portland, Maine

[bobo746]

iceberg

[palexxxx]

^ Great pic.

[bobo746]

Lítla Dímun is a small island between the islands of Suðuroy and Stóra Dímun in the Faroe Islands of Denmark. It is the smallest of the main 18 islands, being less than 100 hectares (250 acres) in area, and is the only uninhabited one. The island can be seen from the villages Hvalba and Sandvík.
Wikipedia

[bobo746]

Taken by Mike Well, this picture shows us the hand of an Ugandan Boy held by a missionary

[bobo746]

Las Lajas Sanctuary, an ornate church built in the canyon of the Guáitara River in Ipiales, Colombia. See it mapped. #

[bobo746]

Google Maps Street View camera strapped to a camel in the dunes of the Liwa Oasis in the United Arab Emirates. See it mapped. #

[bobo746]

French production company La Machine's latest creation, a massive mechanical puppet named "Long Ma" or Dragon Horse breathes steam while performs in front of the Bird's Nest Stadium in Beijing, China

[bobo746]

"Blood Swept Lands and Seas of Red" by artist Paul Cummins, under construction in the moat of the Tower of London on September 10, 2014. Each of the 888,246 ceramic poppies represents an allied victim of the First World War.

[Chittychangchang]

Southport air show last weekend..

[misskit]

New Croton Dam, NY.

[Takeovers]

[Takeovers]

[bobo746]

Bobo has discovered my source so I no longer need to post in this thread.

What source ?????

[bobo746]

A dumbo octopus in a unique swimming posture. This dumbo octopus displayed a body posture that has never before been observed in cirrate octopods

[bobo746]

View from the Brazilian Navy's oceanographic ship Ary Rongel as it goes through the Drake Passage on its way to Antarctica on March 2, 2014