This is just so beautiful.
The image is from the Photopic Sky Survey website. From which also comes the following,
What do you see? This was the anthropic question of a year-long photographic project dubbed the Photopic Sky Survey, meant to reveal the entire night sky as if it rivalled the brightness of day. In it we see tens of millions of stars, the glowing factories of newborn ones, and a rich tapestry of dust all floating on a stage of unimaginable proportions. I hope you enjoy this new view of our place in the universe as much as I have enjoyed making it.
The Photopic Sky Survey is a 5,000 megapixel photograph of the entire night sky stitched together from 37,440 exposures. Large in size and scope, it portrays a world far beyond the one beneath our feet and reveals our familiar Milky Way with unfamiliar clarity. When we look upon this image, we are in fact peering back in time, as much of the light—having traveled such vast distances—predates civilization itself.
Well done, Nick Risinger, for all your efforts and for presenting such a magnificent detailed view of the heavens above.
Plus, more or less the same time, this came to my attention, from the BBC News website.
The Crab Nebula has shocked astronomers by emitting an unprecedented blast of gamma rays, the highest-energy light in the Universe.
The cause of the 12 April gamma-ray flare,described at the Third Fermi Symposium in Rome, is a total mystery.
It seems to have come from a small area of the famous nebula, which is the wreckage from an exploded star.
The object has long been considered a steady source of light, but the Fermi telescope hints at greater activity.
The gamma-ray emission lasted for some six days, hitting levels 30 times higher than normal and varying at times from hour to hour.
While the sky abounds with light across all parts of the spectrum, Nasa’s Fermi space observatory is designed to measure only the most energetic light: gamma rays.
These emanate from the Universe’s most extreme environments and violent processes.
The Crab Nebula is composed mainly of the remnant of a supernova, which was seen on Earth to rip itself apart in the year 1054.
At the heart of the brilliantly coloured gas cloud we can see in visible light, there is a pulsar – a rapidly spinning neutron star that emits radio waves which sweep past the Earth 30 times per second. But so far none of the nebula’s known components can explain the signal Fermi sees, said Roger Blandford, director of the Kavli Institute for Particle Astrophysics and Cosmology, US.
Learning from Dogs 
I miss Learning from Dogs!
The photo is amazing and beautiful.
Also amazing is Crab Nebula!
Thanks for sharing. I love the images!
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Thanks DK. When you say ‘I miss Learning from Dogs’ do you mean articles that are specifically about dogs? Interested in understanding your thoughts.
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Hi Paul, I meant that I miss your blog, “Learning from Dogs.” Perhaps I should put that in quotes?
I enjoy my visits to your blog and always feel that I learned something useful and/or thought provoking.
I esp., love the articles you post about dogs because they are such a huge part of my heart and life. I enjoyed very much the video about dogs knowing when their owners come home. It made me think about our dog Tiny.
If I ever get my desk cleared off and enough rest behind me, I’d like to share with LFD about our ten year-old dog, Tiny.
For the first five years of his life, we communicated almost all the time, even though he didn’t live with me. He is really my son’s dog and like my grand-dog. He helped me save my son’s life many times. He also helped me save his life many times.
Thanks for your interest in my thoughts.
Michelle.
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Memories and stories about Tiny would be so welcome. Feel free to email me material any time – it would be an honour to publish that on your behalf. I wish I could write more about dogs but to do it on a daily basis would be impossible. Instead, I use the very powerful examples that dogs set for mankind, especially in the areas of truth, integrity and unconditional love, as beacons of what H. sapiens is facing if we don’t be more ‘dog like’. Hugs from Arizona!
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Thanks Paul. I didn’t see this comment when I posted the PS. I hope that cleared up my message.
I enjoy the different avenues you take to communicate about our world and planet.
I too would be honored to have you post something I write. I look forward to doing that one day.
Thanks for the hugs from Arizona!
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PS I’m pretty slow lately and it just now occurred to me to tell you that I miss LFDs because I haven’t felt up to reading in such a long while. Didn’t mean to communicate that anything had changed on your blog.
Hope you are having a good day.
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