the-star-stuff: Star trails over the Australian Outback by photographer Lincoln Harrison
Photographer Lincoln Harrison spends hours with his camera in the Australian Outback to create these magnificent star trail pictures. The colourful spirals are the result of the Earth moving, creating the impression that the stars are travelling across the night sky.
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Henry Miller — UFOs (via Flavorwire » Famous Authors’ Unlikely Obsessions)
Henry Miller was a weird one — not only was he very interested in UFOs, but he even supposedly had a sighting of his own in Big Sur in the ’50s. As one of his biographers, Mary V. Dearborn wrote, “Miller was also a passionate believer in UFOs, and during the 1950s he would come to believe that an invasion by aliens was imminent. For a time he promoted a book called Flying Saucers Are Real, by Donald Keyhoe; friends like [the British novelist Lawrence] Durrell were merely amused.”
the-star-stuff: “Most Amazing Earth Image” From the Other Side
NASA said that their Blue Marble 2012 was “the most amazing image of Earth ever.” Now they have released the other half, answering to popular demand.
This look at the East hemisphere “is a composite of six separate orbits taken on January 23, 2012 by the Suomi National Polar-orbiting Partnership satellite. Both of these new ‘Blue Marble’ images are images taken by a new instrument flying aboard Suomi NPP, the Visible Infrared Imaging Radiometer Suite.”
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Elliott Erwitt Venice, Italy, 1949 (by Endless Forms Most Beautiful)