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distant-traveller:

Colorful light pillars

How can an aurora appear so near the ground? Pictured above are not aurora but nearby light pillars, a local phenomenon that can appear as a distant one. In most places on Earth, a lucky viewer can see a Sun-pillar, a column of light appearing to extend up from the Sun caused by flat fluttering ice-crystals reflecting sunlight from the upper atmosphere. Usually these ice crystals evaporate before reaching the ground. During freezing temperatures, however, flat fluttering ice crystals may form near the ground in a form of light snow, sometimes known as a crystal fog. These ice crystals may then reflect ground lights in columns not unlike a Sun-pillar. In the above picture, the colorful lights causing the light pillars surround a ice-skating rink in Fairbanks, Alaska.

Image credit: Walter Tape (Alaska Fairbanks), Figure 8-1, Atmospheric Halos

distant-traveller:

Colorful light pillars

How can an aurora appear so near the ground? Pictured above are not aurora but nearby light pillars, a local phenomenon that can appear as a distant one. In most places on Earth, a lucky viewer can see a Sun-pillar, a column of light appearing to extend up from the Sun caused by flat fluttering ice-crystals reflecting sunlight from the upper atmosphere. Usually these ice crystals evaporate before reaching the ground. During freezing temperatures, however, flat fluttering ice crystals may form near the ground in a form of light snow, sometimes known as a crystal fog. These ice crystals may then reflect ground lights in columns not unlike a Sun-pillar. In the above picture, the colorful lights causing the light pillars surround a ice-skating rink in Fairbanks, Alaska.

Image credit: Walter Tape (Alaska Fairbanks), Figure 8-1, Atmospheric Halos

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askladypitchiner asked: Booker has a nice ring to it

That’s two for Booker then. I’m finding that that one and Noah both sound best when used in character lines.

edit: Has anyone else noticed that if there’s notes between the last post on page one of your blog and the first post on page two, that you won’t see the notes until the posts have shifted? So yeah, turns out I’ve got two votes for Booker, and one for Noah, so it seems the two that sound best are indeed coming out on top.

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the-science-llama:

Galaxy Coast
— Bill Shupp // Flickr

Taken near Bixby Bridge north of Big Sur, CA, this is a 12 shot vertical panorama taken around 4 am this past Monday, when the Milky Way was pretty high in the sky. The glow near the horizon is a lighthouse just around the bend.

All shots are 20 seconds, except the bottom one, which is 3 minutes

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protobutt:

robots who aspire to be human (´◠ω◠`)

robots who are totally cool with being their fab robot selves (◠ω◠✿)

robots who look totally human (◡ω◡✿)

robots who don’t look human at all (◠△◠✿)

robots who love and love intensely (◕ω◕✿)

robots who don’t even know how to feelings (⊙ω⊙✿)

robots (◡‿◡✿)

(ノ◕ヮ◕)ノ~『✧~*ROBOTS*~✧』

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