Country Mill Summertime Flowers

Country Mill Summertime Flowers:

A country mill in the distance surrounded by trees in the summertime. Beautiful Rhododendron flowers in full bloom seem to pop off the screen with sharp focus and contrast.

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Red Daisy Macro on Black

Red Daisy Macro on Black:

Red Daisy Macro on Black

Make sure to download the full size image of this one. The flower pistols in the middle are in stunning macro detail. All of the surrounding vegetation has been removed to make this nearly perfect red daisy stand out from the contrasted black background.

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Summer Sunrise Mountain Flowers

Summer Sunrise Mountain Flowers:

Mountain laurel flowers are beginning to bloom in the high peaks of the Dolly Sods wilderness. Early in the morning as the sun is breaking through the early morning clouds the flowers eagerly await the warmth of the bright rays.

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Heavenly Snow Shenandoah Mountains

Heavenly Snow Shenandoah Mountains:

Snow falling late in the winter in the Shenandoah mountains. Far in the distance you can see the snow showers falling on the mountain range across the valley down below.

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Blue Anemone Flower

Blue Anemone Flower:

This blue flower looks almost like a sea anemone. The light blue color is almost a baby blue with a purple tint. The small groups of blue blossoms on this flower with blue pistils make this a unique floral display.

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Yellow Flower

Yellow Flower:

A large yellow flower up close. This beautiful yellow flower is in full bloom in the early summer. Flower like this are seen in many flower gardens and landscapes this time of year.

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Red Petunia

Red Petunia:

A red petunia flower. The lighting is simply perfect around this red petunia providing a rich and colorful flower picture.

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Dianthus Macro

Dianthus Macro:

This flower picture looks kind of surreal with the flower pistols protruding from the dianthus flower blossoms. A lot can be seen in floral macro photography, close exposures such as these open an entirely new world.

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Bobcat Hillside Snow Under Tree

Bobcat Hillside Snow Under Tree:

A grey and white bobcat under a pine tree. This wild cat looks like he is stalking his prey. The predator instincts in these animals are very evident in the way they walk and move.

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Kaleidoscope Flowers

Kaleidoscope Flowers:

Multiple colors abound in this kaleidoscope of flowers. The colors in the little flowers are quite vivid in this flower picture.

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Purple Daisies

Purple Daisies:

Purple Daisies in a flower field. These daisies are really pretty with a yellow center and purple pedals around the edges.

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Large Red Daisy

Large Red Daisy:

Colorful Large Red Daisy Flower. The soft colors and light shading are just right for this large red daisy flower.

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Blue Sky Shenandoah Valley

Blue Sky Shenandoah Valley:

Blue Sky Shenandoah Valley

A beautiful blue sky stretches across the Shenandoah Valley below. White puffy clouds float above the mountain tops, like balls of cotton between heaven and earth.

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White Trillium Flower

White Trillium Flower:

White Trillium Forest Flower. These flowers abound in the Mountains of West Virginia during the cool early spring days. They also display several other colors besides white.

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Otter Playing Snow Sliding

Otter Playing Snow Sliding:

An otter running and then sliding down this hill in the snow. What a playful little fellow. He sure seems happy.

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Pink Flowers

Pink Flowers:

Small Pink Flowers in a nicely composed vertical framed picture.

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Country Road Autumn Mountain Sunset

Country Road Autumn Mountain Sunset:

Country Road Autumn Mountain Sunset

If you look closely you can see the country road winding across the mountain side through the vibrant fall foliage. In the horizon the sun is setting in a colorful autumn sky.

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Autumn Tree Foliage

Autumn Tree Foliage:

Autumn Tree Foliage

Perfect for a background or even a wall mural this autumn foliage picture was taken in the West Virginia mountains near the Cheat River. Small pine trees cover the base of the forest in this colorful fall foliage picture. It is said that there are a lot of black bear around this area, we are hoping to see one.

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Autumn Mountain Village Scene

Autumn Mountain Village Scene:

Autumn Mountain Village Scene

Just above Harmon West Virginia we find this quaint mountain village scene. In the peak of the fall foliage season the bright red colors throughout this valley seem to glow in the late evening sun.

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WV Fall Foliage Mountain Sunrise

WV Fall Foliage Mountain Sunrise:

WV Fall Foliage Mountain Sunrise

Early in the morning from the top of Cheat Mountain in West Virginia. The early morning sunrise was beautiful this day and we are excited to go take some fall foliage pictures.

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Autumn Country Church

Autumn Country Church:

Autumn Country Church

A small country church found in the mountains of West Virginia. On a clear autumn day the fall colors around this church accent the old fashioned charm of a little white church beside the road.

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Autumn Foliage Waterfall Sunset

Autumn Foliage Waterfall Sunset:

Autumn Foliage Waterfall Sunset

Autumn Foliage surrounds these beautiful waterfalls during a fall evening sunset sky. Blackwater falls are some of the most beautiful waterfalls in all of West Virginia. the river is known and named for the dark colored water stained from minerals in the river sediment.

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Autumn Foliage Morning Fog

Autumn Foliage Morning Fog:

Autumn Foliage Morning Fog

Early morning fog slowly drifts across Summit Lake in the mountains of West Virginia on a cool Autumn morning. The colorful fall foliage is beginning to awake as the water reflects from the glassy still lake waters.

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Autumn Mail Pouch Barn

Autumn Mail Pouch Barn:

Autumn Mail Pouch Barn

A classic rural country scene of a mail pouch barn on a country farm. Behind the barn the fall foliage colors accent this down home country scene.

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Colorful Autumn Mountain

Colorful Autumn Mountain:

Colorful Autumn Mountain

A Colorful Autumn Mountain covered in Fall Foliage. This was taken near the highland scenic highway late one autumn evening, under a cloudy blue sky.

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Autumn Mountain Foliage

Autumn Mountain Foliage:

Autumn Mountain Foliage

Autumn Mountain Foliage along the Highland Scenic Highway. Overcast days are the best time for fall foliage photography. The elevation on this highway is around 5000 feet above sea level and is a beautiful place to drive in the autumn season.

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Fall Sunset Gristmill

Fall Sunset Gristmill:

Late one autumn evening after sunset in the few minutes left before complete darkness, I captured this shot of the gristmill waterfalls of glade creek. The wind was blowing so it made the trees a little blurry however I still like this shot because it was taken in such low lighting. There are many great opportunities for fall foliage photography at Babcock state park in West Virginia.

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Music From The Universe & Across The Universe Beatles

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Pequi

Pequi:
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Fruto do Pequizeiro (Caryocar brasiliensis)


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Espiral adormecida.

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Centopéia


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Outono chegando...

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Autumn is coming...


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Príncipe Negro

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Artesanato de Lagoa Santa, MG

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Lichia

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LITCHI CHINENSIS - FAMÍLIA SAPINDACEAE



Originária da China onde é considerada a fruta nacional, a lichieira e uma árvore subtropical com até 12 metros de altura e de grande longevidade. Em muitos países e considerada a rainha das frutas.


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Madrepérola

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Madrepérola (ou nácar) é uma substância calcária, dura, brilhante, branca ou escura e iridescente produzida por diversos moluscos. São o principal componente das pérolas.

A madrepérola pode refletir freqüências difererentes da luz de acordo com a maneira como é iluminada, de modo que pode apresentar cores variadas, que vão dos rosas, aos azuis, verdes e amarelos, em várias tonalidades. Esse efeito é considerando bastante agradável à vista.


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The Fab 4

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Centro Histórico de Porto Seguro,BA

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Vida e Morte (Life and Death)

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Is the Moon Mars Myth Over?

Is the Moon Mars Myth Over?:

Mars and the Moon -- NOT. Credit: Scientific American

Twitter users Kris McCall and Wayne Povey reminded me that it’s August 27th today. Don’t you know what that is? That’s the day all those stupid “Mars is going to look bigger than the Moon” hoax emails go around the internet. We’ll usually get deluged by emails from the recipients, and have to write up a big response explaining it… again… and again… and again.


But I just realized… I haven’t gotten a single email this year. I totally forgot to mention it in Universe Today.


So that’s it, I’m officially calling this hoax over. You hear me hoaxers and remailers? You’ve lost. People now understand that there’s no possible way that Mars can look bigger in the sky. Your ridiculous hoax is falling on deaf ears. It just took 8 years of non-stop debunking.


Skepticism has won this day.
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Astronomy Without A Telescope – Why The LHC (Still) Won’t Destroy The Earth

Astronomy Without A Telescope – Why The LHC (Still) Won’t Destroy The Earth:

Concerns about a 'big science machine' destroying the Earth have been around since the steam engine. The LHC is the latest target for such conspiracy theories. Credit: CERN.

Surprisingly, rumors still persist in some corners of the Internet that the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) is going to destroy the Earth – even though nearly three years have passed since it was first turned on. This may be because it is yet to be ramped up to full power in 2014 – although it seems more likely that this is just a case of moving the goal posts, since the same doomsayers were initially adamant that the Earth would be destroyed the moment the LHC was switched on, in September 2008.


The story goes that the very high energy collisions engineered by the LHC could jam colliding particles together with such force that their mass would be compressed into a volume less than the Schwarzschild radius required for that mass. In other words, a microscopic black hole would form and then grow in size as it sucked in more matter, until it eventually consumed the Earth.


Here’s a brief run-through of why this can’t happen.(...)
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The Genesis of Galaxy Eris…

The Genesis of Galaxy Eris…:

This image of the Eris simulation shows the stars in the galaxy as observers would see it. Blue colors are regions of recent star formation, while redder regions are associated with older stars. The spiral arms are typically star-forming, and the central bulge is basically "red and dead." Credit: J. Guedes and P. Madau.

In as much time as it takes to give birth to human life, a supercomputer and a team of researchers at the University of California, Santa Cruz, and the Institute for Theoretical Physics in Zurich have given rise to the first simulation of the physics involved in galaxy formation that produced the Milky Way. They named their child Eris… (...)
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Book Review: Lunar and Planetary Rovers

Book Review: Lunar and Planetary Rovers:

Lunar and Planetary Rovers offers a bit of a primer before NASA's Mars Science Laboratory launches to Mars this November. Image Credit: NASA/Spinger/Praxis

Ordinarily if a book attempts to cover crewed and unmanned missions – the book is a compilation of space flight history in general. This is not the case when it comes to Springer/Praxis’ offering Lunar and Planetary Rovers. Written by Anthony Young, the book details both crewed (the Apollo “J” missions) and unmanned rovers (Pathfinder, Mars Exploration Rovers and Curiosity). The book is not a perfect blending of the two interconnected, yet separate programs – but it does have much to offer.(...)
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NASA Robot arrives at ‘New’ Landing Site holding Clues to Ancient Water Flow on Mars

NASA Robot arrives at ‘New’ Landing Site holding Clues to Ancient Water Flow on Mars:

Opportunity investigates Tisdale 2 rock showing indications of ancient Martian water flow

NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity used its front hazard-avoidance camera to take this picture showing the rover's arm extended toward a light-toned rock, "Tisdale 2," during Sol 2695 of the rover's work on Mars (Aug. 23, 2011). The composition of Tisdale 2 is unlike any rock studied by Opportunity since landing 7.5 years ago. It is about 12 inches (30 centimeters) tall. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech

Updated with more team comments and images

Opportunity has begun a whole new mission at the vast expanse of Endeavour Crater promising a boatload of new science discoveries.


Scientists directing NASA’s Mars Opportunity rover gushed with excitement as they announced that the aging robot has discovered a rock with a composition unlike anything previously explored on the Red Planet’s surface – since she landed on the exotic Martian plains 7.5 years ago – and which offers indications that liquid water might have percolated or flowed at this spot billions of years ago.


Barely three weeks ago Opportunity arrived at the rim of the gigantic 14 mile ( 22 km) wide crater named Endeavour after an epic multi-year trek, and for the team it’s literally been like a 2nd landing on Mars – and the equivalent of the birth of a whole new mission of exploration at an entirely ‘new’ landing site. (...)
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NASA – Eyes On The Solar System

NASA – Eyes On The Solar System:




Are you ready for a fascinating virtual experience? Then check out “Eyes on the Solar System”! This clever compilation of visualizations and real images takes you on a journey that’s sure to keep you entertained for hours! (...)
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Where’s the Debris for Transiting Planets?

Where’s the Debris for Transiting Planets?:







For many exoplanet systems that have been discovered by the radial velocity method, astronomers have found excess emission in the infrared portion of the spectrum. This has generally been interpreted as remnants of a disk or collection of objects similar to our own Kupier belt, a ring of icy bodies beyond the orbit of Pluto. But as Kepler and other exoplanet finding missions rake in the candidates though transits of the parent star, astronomers began noticing something unusual: None of the exoplanet systems discovered through this method were known to have debris disks. Was this an odd selection effect, perhaps induced by the fact that transiting planets often orbit close to their parent stars, making them more likely to pass along the line of sight which could in turn, betray different formation scenarios? Or were astronomers simply not looking hard enough? A recent paper by astronomers at the Astrophysikalisches Institut in Germany attempts to answer that question.



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