Dianne Boyd

My puppers enjoying the sun today

Spring things

(Soapwort from my parents, young Ivory Silk Japanese Lilac tree, tulips and daffodils)

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Pibbles are the best

I imagine this is how he's sleeping in heaven

This is Joey. He has left this reality and traveled to another that consists only of his toy. 13/10 we are so happy for him

Nightly votive in the porch garden.

“Most people imagine that happiness consists of getting what you want, but really it consists of liking what you’ve got — it’s easier and cheaper.” — Quentin Crisp
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This volcano "fountain was at the peak of a height of 1000 ft."

On my bucket list :)

Source: www.reddit.com/r/Volcanoes/...

Three tile image with two images in top row. Top row: In the centre is an elliptical galaxy, seen as an oval-shaped glow around a small bright core. Around this is wrapped a broad band of light, appearing like a spiral galaxy stretched and warped into a ring, with bright blue lines drawn through it where the spiral arms have been stretched into circles. A few distant objects are visible around the ring on a black background. The image has been annotated to point out the foreground galaxy as well as the background spiral. In the bottom row: Diagram showing the JWST on one side with light being focused into it from a distant galaxy, via an intermediate galaxy. The Galaxy appears as a ring as light scattered in all directions is delivered to the focal point.

Updated explainer diagram version!

Still can't get over the structures we see in this lens. Physics allows us to see around corners!

Someone said to me last night that this looks like a half-cut avocado, and now I cannot unsee it! 🥑

📸 ESA/Webb, NASA & CSA, G. Mahler & Planetary Society

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Elliptical galaxy with an oval shape and yellow green glow. Around this is a warped spiral galaxy stretched into a ring. The background is black with a few distant objects.

Fake space image? Nope! The latest JWST image shows a phenomenon called an Einstein Ring. You are looking at 2 galaxies—an elliptical galaxy closer to us sits at the center, and a more distant spiral galaxy is warped around it. This is a type of gravitational lensing. (1/3)

The Aurora Borealis? At this time of year? At this time of day? In this part of the country?
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It truly is easy to see with the naked eye if you can get away from light pollution 🤩

Comets are my favorite space object. I've been fascinated by them since witnessing the Hale-Bopp in the late 1990s.

Saturn's rings are exactly aligned with Earth today, making them "vanish" because they are so thin.

Unfortunately the planet is currently hidden in the glare of the Sun, but Alan Friedman compiled a great image sequence of a similar vanishing in 2009. 🧪🔭

avertedimagination.com/img_pages/6_...

Eye bleach :)