scinerds:

Brilliant Color Flows From Glacier

Credit: NASA

The Columbia Glacier descends from an ice field 10,000 feet (3,050 meters) above sea level, down the flanks of the Chugach Mountains, and into a narrow inlet that leads into Prince William Sound in southeastern Alaska. It is one of the most rapidly changing glaciers in the world.

This false-color image, captured by the Thematic Mapper (TM) instrument on Landsat 5, shows the glacier and the surrounding landscape on May 30, 2011. Snow and ice appears bright cyan, vegetation is green, clouds are white or light orange, and the open ocean is dark blue. Exposed bedrock is brown, while rocky debris on the glacier’s surface is gray.

ikenbot:

M101

New Image of the Pinwheel galaxy in Many Colors Shows Off 21 Million Year Old Light

This image of the Pinwheel Galaxy, or also known as M101, combines data in the infrared, visible, ultraviolet and X-rays from four of NASA’s space-based telescopes. This multi-spectral view shows that both young and old stars are evenly distributed along M101’s tightly-wound spiral arms.

Such composite images allow astronomers to see how features in one part of the spectrum match up with those seen in other parts. It is like seeing with a regular camera, an ultraviolet camera, night-vision goggles and X-ray vision, all at the same time.

The Pinwheel Galaxy is in the constellation of Ursa Major (also known as the Big Dipper). It is about 70% larger than our own Milky Way Galaxy, with a diameter of about 170,000 light years, and sits at a distance of 21 million light years from Earth.

This means that the light we’re seeing in this image left the Pinwheel Galaxy about 21 million years ago - many millions of years before humans ever walked the Earth.

ruineshumaines:

Selected Paintings by Tobias Tovera.

xantheose:

la misma vía láctea de todos los veranos (by sanabria)

dsylecxia:

bleeding heart dove, the dove that always looks like it just walked away from a driveby shooting

milieu-de-terrain:

Château de Montjoie, Clairefontaine-en-Yvelines

Residence Equipe de France

Legitimate question: …is Clairefontaine used for anything else besides housing a bunch of Frenchmen during internationals? LOL

dessertbycandy:

Get in the mood for Memorial Day Weekend with Strawberry Raspberry Shortcake. Buttermilk cake with fresh strawberries, raspberries, tangy whipped creme fraiche, and homemade balsamic raspberry jam. I made this for a belated birthday celebration with Little Brother.

Buttermilk cake recipe from Flo Braker’s Baking for All Occasions. I wrote about the balsamic raspberry jam previously. The rest was just made up on the spot. Get the recipe at Dessert By Candy.

vvolare:

sky (by natalie_kadyrova)