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Thanks! Yes, it is a photo. The moth was chilling on a window after sunset. The blue dots are out of focus apron lights.
They sure don't tend to do that, but there are still mundane explanations for this. An unintentional collision between the satellite and another object being one of them.
"I find it hard to believe they would use such a big satellite as an ASAT target," McDowell said.
Not because of Kessler syndrome, just your run of the mill space debris reentering the atmosphere and increasing the amounts of certain metals up there that contribute to ozone depletion. In other words, that may well happen even if we're lucky and avoid Kessler syndrome.
Cirrus and Cirrostratus progressively invading the sky are a telltale sign of an approaching warm front. In this case it was an occluded front that was rolling in. It snowed that night.
Don't be decieved by the anvil like shape, heavy looking precipitation and icy look of this cloud! This is far from the size and power of an actual Cumulonimbus. But it is interesting in that it fits every criteria of a Cumulonimbus capillatus incus, except the bit about considerable vertical extent for the genus. I'm quite sure that this guy didn't raise its head much above 2 km AGL.
I suppose it could be classified as a Cumulus of some sort, but it really doesn't fit well under any genus. Our systems of classification are just something that we made up. Clouds are under no obligation to conform to them. The same is true for everything else in the universe as well.
Picture taken in August 2022. Fluctus, also known as Kelvin-Helmholtz wave clouds, form when wind shear causes instability in the (usually the upper) surface of a cloud. The formation is short lived and relatively rare. It can also only be seen well from the side like here. This video contains a good explanation of the physics involved here.
Some of the Cc is of the variety undulatus. Miscellaneous Cirrus in the lower part of the image.
Picture taken on 25.6.2023 at 01:27 local time.
A sun pillar is formed when horizontally floating hexagonal ice crystals (in this case within the Cirrus) reflect light. Kinda like the reflection of the setting sun over wavy water, but in this case upside down.
Thanks for notifying. Should be fixed now.
Image taken in the summer of 2022.
"The most important thing is the environmental benefits we can achieve by using large and modern aircraft of this type for Troll," Ms Brekke said.
"This can help to reduce total emissions and the environmental footprint in Antarctica.”
You wouldn't have needed to even read the article since OP copied this part into the post. Please, read before commenting.
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Thanks! Time really is the most important ingredient. Look at enough sunsets and sunrises with an adequate camera on hand, and every now and then a great scene will come up. After that it's just point and shoot.