Knaresborough, North Yorkshire / England (by Fayaz Mohamed).

Statue of the goddess Aphrodite bathing in the garden of the Reggia di Caserta, Italy.

Blue Birch Woods no.1

by Jef Bourgeau.

Buon Appetito

Extreme Detail of the Moon🌕

March 25

ANCHE OGGI PIUTTOSTO FREDDO E PIOVOSO. MA POCO FA FRA LA PIOGGERELLA E' APPARSO UNO STUPENDO ARCOBALENO !

2024 April 21

Perijove 16: Passing Jupiter Video Credit & License: NASA, Juno, SwRI, MSSS, Gerald Eichstadt; Music: The Planets, IV. Jupiter (Gustav Holst); USAF Heritage of America Band (via Wikipedia)

Explanation: Watch Juno zoom past Jupiter. NASA’s robotic spacecraft Juno is continuing on its now month-long, highly-elongated orbits around our Solar System’s largest planet. The featured video is from perijove 16, the sixteenth time that Juno passed near Jupiter since it arrived in mid-2016. Each perijove passes near a slightly different part of Jupiter’s cloud tops. This color-enhanced video has been digitally composed from 21 JunoCam still images, resulting in a 125-fold time-lapse. The video begins with Jupiter rising as Juno approaches from the north. As Juno reaches its closest view – from about 3,500 kilometers over Jupiter’s cloud tops – the spacecraft captures the great planet in tremendous detail. Juno passes light zones and dark belts of clouds that circle the planet, as well as numerous swirling circular storms, many of which are larger than hurricanes on Earth. As Juno moves away, the remarkable dolphin-shaped cloud is visible. After the perijove, Jupiter recedes into the distance, now displaying the unusual clouds that appear over Jupiter’s south. To get desired science data, Juno swoops so close to Jupiter that its instruments are exposed to very high levels of radiation.

∞ Source: apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap240421.html

Silver Surfer by Alex Maleev

Scattering blossoms, the dream of a butterfly...

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Mount Fuji as seen from Space

April 21st, Rome's Birthday

On this day 2777 years ago ,Romulus became the first king of Rome, founding the city on the Palatine Hill. Beyond legend, archaeological excavations date the first settlements to the same period on the Palatine Hill there were already cabins and a wall.

Romulus and Remus in the She-Wolf's House on the Grand-Place in Brussels. Photo by EmDee- CC BY-SA 4.0 DEED-Wikimedia Commons

Like every April 21st, today there is a great celebration in Rome.

In forests old, where magic thrives...

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