Nearly 200 000 light-years from Earth, the Large Magellanic Cloud, a satellite galaxy of the Milky Way, floats in space, in a long and slow dance around our galaxy. Vast clouds of gas within it slowly collapse to form new stars. In turn, these light up the gas clouds in a riot of colours, visible [...]

A large formation of UFO's pass over head in Guelph, The objects have a sync trajectory in flight, moving at a decent speed while all in sync can scrub out the lantern explination.

I think that this looks like a bunch of very large presents around the base of a very weird Christmas tree. Maybe, in a way, it is. The story: We were under the eastbound side of the west seattle bridge, by that foundry/forge because the lure of glowing ingots of raw steel was enough to [...]

Editor’s note: this is a video still of Hurricane Irene. The video is too large for me to load, but please visit this link to watch it. It will be worth your time, very impressive — and frightening. www.nasa.gov/multimedia/videogallery/index.html?collectio… From 230 miles above the Earth, cameras on the International Space Station captured new views of [...]

Editor’s note: this is worth zooming in on the large size! From astronaut Don Pettit’s blog: the San Antonio Astronomical Association sends a signal to the Station! Posted to the NASA Views Earth at Night photoset: www.flickr.com/photos/28634332@N05/sets/72157625188331491/ From the blog: It sounds deceptively easy. In an earlier post I wrote about the technical requirements. But [...]

Dear friends, I was out of flickr for some days. Couldn’t post, comment or do anything substantial. Sorry about that. But, this photograph is not an excuse to tell you that I had been abducted by aliens. It is real. I mean photograph is real. I was hiking/photographing in the Alps and my eyes suddenly [...]