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Click pic of Milky Way from Wangaratta, Australia to embiggen mightily
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It’s a thunderstorm and the Milky Way. I am not sure why these are posted here, they’ve been on the web for years.
The top photo puts the super in supercell for sure. Say, isn’t that ECA’s neighborhood?
OMG I want to stab somebody every time the made up word “embiggen” is used on the Internet.
Normally one can’t see the edge on view of the Milky Way, because of all the light pollution in the night sky. It’s scary to realize that the reason we can’t see it’s center as something super brilliant. Is that it’s most likely a giant blackhole there, swallowing up all mass and light. So the Milky Way galaxy is more like a gigantic iced donut. With sprinkles. And nothing at its center. But a large Homer Simpson, forever eating away at it. How fortunate we truly are to be able to view it, with so little concern about being next to vanish anytime soon.
We used to see storms like that moving across the savanna in Angola. They were awesome to watch and scary to experience. Never saw one spawn a tornado, though. One thing, though, they completely redefined the words “torrential rains.
That supercell picture is just outstanding! I can imagine the cloud turning into a giant tornado. The Astronomy Picture of the Day website is truly outstanding, and I look at their pictures daily, just like DU.
Ha! Someone at NASA as a sense of humor.
Click on the supercell photo. That takes you to NASA.
Then click on the words “waits patiently”.
Love it.
Fantastic images.
I never knew you can photograph the milkyway like that – wow.
Incidentally, why did God put us in the distant suburbs (boonies) and not in the center of the galaxy?
I’m not entirely sure we’re Her favorite 🙁
Pic 1 looks like God prolapsed.
This is a lenticular cloud. A mountain range can form a series of long wave clouds, but if the speed bump is more isolated, like a single mountain, the result can be oval-shaped clouds that look like UFOs. Sometimes multiple ovals form that look like a stack of saucers.
The picture of the Milky Way is a composite of infrared and visual wavelengths. Infrared allows the interior view.