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Why do cultures across the globe have #dragon legends? Medieval Wyverns, Chinese loong, Aboriginal Rainbow Serpents—they're everywhere.
Geomythology explores how these stories might preserve ancient memories of volcanic eruptions, #fossil discoveries, and geological events that shaped our ancestors' understanding of the natural world.
Why do cultures across the globe have #dragon legends? Medieval Wyverns, Chinese loong, Aboriginal Rainbow Serpents—they're everywhere.
Geomythology explores how these stories might preserve ancient memories of volcanic eruptions, #fossil discoveries, and geological events that shaped our ancestors' understanding of the natural world.
Spectral colours of meteors based on their elemental composition
'Basketball-sized' meteor lights up Sydney sky
By Declan Bowring
The mysterious green flash ripped through the skies about 6pm last night.
'Basketball-sized' meteor lights up Sydney sky
By Declan Bowring
The mysterious green flash ripped through the skies about 6pm last night.
https://www.europesays.com/uk/146562/ Meet the NASA scientist tasked with identifying asteroids on a collision course with Earth #KellyFast #Meteors #Mother'sDayMeteorite #Nasa #Perth #Science #Space #UK #UnitedKingdom #wa
Meet the woman tasked with protecting Earth from an asteroid strike
NASA officer Dr Kelly Fast is responsible for identifying and tracking asteroids, and figuring out if any of these rocky bodies could be on a collision course with Earth.
I am SO glad to see this story because I saw those #meteors last night. And I had convinced myself I had seen a plane or something else.
Famous comet’s yearly meteor shower will be spectacular display https://www.theguardian.com/science/2025/may/05/one-of-the-most-famous-comets-to-put-on-grand-display-of-meteors #Astronomy #Science #Meteors #Comets
https://www.europesays.com/uk/72874/ What is the Eta Aquarid meteor shower and when can you see it in UK? | UK | News #comets #EtaAquaridMeteorShower #Halley'sComet #Meteors #Science #Space #stargazing #UK #UKWeather #UKWeatherConditions #UnitedKingdom
https://www.europesays.com/2048503/ The Eta Aquariid meteor shower is about to peak. Here’s how to catch it from Australia #astronomy #australia #CanISeeTheEtaAquariidMeteorShowerFromAustralia? #EtaAquariid #EtaAquariids #EtaAquariids2025 #HalleysComet #Meteor #MeteorShower #MeteorShowers #meteors #orionids
An Almost Everything Sky
Koen van Barneveld. Composite photo featuring:
- Milky Way
- Zodiacal Light
- a meteor
- aurora
- landscape
- light trail from a flashlight
- the photographer!
Blue (Starlink) satellite?
I captured these images last night while my cameras were on patrol for Lyrids meteors.
They appear to show a blue satellite trail around 9:19PM Mountain Daylight Time, as seen from the Sacramento mountains of southern New Mexico.
Note that camera's color balance was set to 'daylight' and in the first image another, fainter, satellite trail is also visible...it's not blue, it's a typical color. Also note star colors. This camera over the years has shown itself to be accurate in rendering color in night/day photos.
Have others seen this before?
Sony a6300 camera, 23mm lens at f/1.4, ISO 800, 30 second exposures, using intervalometer with 31-second timing. Camera pointed near zenith. (Note that this lens, at f/1.4, shows stars with coma and astigmatism in the corners of the frame...so the stars look as if they have wings/tails.)
https://nova.astrometry.net/user_images/12469295#annotated
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Lyrids meteor shower: one-day--past-peak report.
This is the only image I noted, out of over 1,000 taken through the night, that shows a Lyrid. And Murphy's Law dictates that it be partly hidden by a tree.
Note the Milky Way rising out of the trees in this wide-angle view.
Constellation lines have been added: https://nova.astrometry.net/user_images/12469123#annotated
Lyrids meteor shower: post-peak report from the Sacramento mountains of southern New Mexico.
I set up two cameras on tripods with wide angle lenses, set the intervalometers to take 30-second exposures...went to bed...cameras kept going until almost 3AM before the batteries exhausted. Almost a thousand images.
I only captured a few Lyrids. Most were close to the shower radiant, which means they were short meteors...didn't cover much sky.
Please note the alt-text on the images. The first two images are of a non-Lyrid meteor that was interesting.
If you have images of star fields, but are "Lost in Space"...upload your images to:
https://nova.astrometry.net/
Starwatch: Lyrid meteor showers to grace skies with annual stellar show https://www.theguardian.com/science/2025/apr/21/lyrid-meteor-showers-grace-skies-annual-stellar-show #Astronomy #Meteors #Science #Space
Hoping we have clear, dark skies tomorrow night when the Lyrid meteor shower is expected to peak.
‘It blew us away’: how an asteroid may have delivered the vital ingredients for life on Earth https://www.theguardian.com/science/2025/apr/20/it-blew-us-away-how-an-asteroid-may-have-delivered-the-vital-ingredients-for-life-on-earth #NaturalHistoryMuseum #Meteorology #Alienlife #Asteroids #Culture #Museums #Science #Jupiter #Meteors #Space #Mars
The Eta Aquariids are the debris left by a comet called 1P/Halley, or Halley's Comet, which comes around every 76 years. Its radiant is close to the constellation of Aquarius, which will present a strong showing for the southern hemisphere, with up to 50 to 60 meteors per hour.
When to see: https://www.timeanddate.com/astronomy/meteor-shower/eta-aquarids.html
source: https://www.sciencealert.com/look-up-two-stunning-meteor-showers-are-about-to-light-up-the-sky
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