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Nature quote of the day

By iftttauthorways4eu on Sun May 22 2022

“Spring beckons! All things to the call respond; the trees are leaving and cashiers abscond.” – Ambrose Bierce

A Large Tsunami Shock Wave on the Sun

By iftttauthorways4eu on Sun May 22 2022

Tsunamis this large don’t happen on Earth. During 2006, a large solar flare from an Earth-sized sunspot produced a tsunami-type shock wave that was spectacular even for the Sun. Pictured here, the tsunami wave was captured moving out from active region AR 10930 by the Optical Solar Patrol Network (OSPAN) telescope in New Mexico, USA. […]

Planetary Nebula Abell 7

By iftttauthorways4eu on Sat May 21 2022

Very faint planetary nebula Abell 7 is some 1,800 light-years distant, just south of Orion in planet Earth’s skies in the constellation Lepus, The Hare. Surrounded by Milky Way stars and near the line-of-sight to distant background galaxies, its generally simple spherical shape, about 8 light-years in diameter, is outlined in this deep telescopic image. […]

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