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This European Eagle Owl’s tippy taps

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January morning

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by Vitaly Istomin

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The Veil Nebula

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Usva🌒 I am super happy with this painting I did with the Gansai Tambi Graphite Colors from Kuretake. I rarely do really toned down color palettes but I definitely should do them more often. In fact this palette had just the perfect set of color tones for this piece. ‘Usva’ is Finnish for haze or mist. 🤍

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“ auroras “ // Vincent Ledvina

Music:  Hans Zimmer - Cornfield Chase

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Miura poses🐈‍⬛ Ink on xuan paper shikishi board. These illustrations are also featured in my Shikishi-zine, available at https://heikala.com/ ✨

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This photo, taken in a forest, looks like an eye.

odd, weird, strange and unusual

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A Year of Sunrises : Does the Sun always rise in the same direction? No. As the months change, the direction toward the rising Sun changes, too. The featured image shows the direction of sunrise every month during 2021 as seen from the city of Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. The camera in the image is always facing due east, with north toward the left and south toward the right. As shown in an accompanying video, the top image was taken in 2020 December, while the bottom image was captured in 2021 December, making 13 images in total. Although the Sun always rises in the east in general, it rises furthest to the south of east on the December solstice, and furthest north of east on the June solstice. In many countries, the December Solstice is considered an official change in season: for example the first day of winter in the North. Solar heating and stored energy in the Earth’s surface and atmosphere are near their lowest during winter, making the winter season the coldest of the year. via NASA

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Boo! Did we get you? 🎃

This solar jack-o-lantern, captured by our Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) in October 2014, gets its ghoulish grin from active regions on the Sun, which emit more light and energy than the surrounding dark areas. Active regions are markers of an intense and complex set of magnetic fields hovering in the sun’s atmosphere.

The SDO has kept an unblinking eye on the Sun since 2010, recording phenomena like solar flares and coronal loops. It measures the Sun’s interior, atmosphere, magnetic field, and energy output, helping us understand our nearest star.

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Today in important facts about bunnies:

Northern Arctic hares have a strange habit of fleeing by hopping on their hind legs instead of running on all fours, and no one knows why the hell this happens

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A hand carved Owl door, Denmark, 1930s

Yes, the beak is the knocker.

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The Onion knows the real score

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