Wednesday, October 31, 2012

Hurricane Sandy

From photos by people on Facebook

Downtown NYC and Brooklyn Bridge, photo taken from Brooklyn, NY.
14 st, NYC. near the explosion - http://youtu.be/4gtNgauQlIE
Cars floating in an underground parking basement in New York City's financial district
in NYC
Subway (metro) 86 st, NYC
Lower east side NYC
Ground zero, NY, NY
Prior Hurricanes - 1960's
Prior Hurricanes - Early 1930's
Sandy in Atlantic City, NJ
Sandy in Cuba
Kitty Hawk, NC
East coast, by the beach...
Home swept into the water. Fairfield Beach, CT
Over 50 homes were destroyed in a late night and fast moving fire. 13 Breezy Point, QUEENS, NEW YORK - 30.10.12.
Rainbow after the hurricane
Brighton Beach & Coney Island, Brooklyn, NY
Brighton Beach, Brooklyn, NY
Sand on the road. Beach has extended. Ocean pkwy and Surf ave, Brooklyn, NY
Stillwell ave, Brooklyn, NY
Ave U train N station, Brooklyn, NY
23rd st & Voories, Brooklyn, NY
Brooklyn, NY
South Richmond Hill, New York
Midland beach area on Staten Island, NY.
Photo by Christopher Baginski
Taxi terminal, Hoboken, NJ
Nikon 20,000 seat theater. Long Island, NY
Ave X and East 28 st, Brooklyn, NY
68th Street and 19th Avenue, at Bensonhurt, Brooklyn, NY.
Brooklyn, NY
Burned, Brooklyn, NY
probably Ocean pkwy, Brooklyn, NY
mating? New York area

Thursday, August 9, 2012

Space (Facebook)

Space photos from facebook, mostly from Milky way scientists


Andromeda Galaxy at ultraviolet wavelengths. image credit - NASA

Center of the Lagoon Nebula. Credit & Copyright - Michael Sherick

Comet Holmes. Credit, Copyright - Tony Cook

M42 ESO Orion Nebula. by Mark McCaughrean (ESO Very Large Telescope (VLT) at Paranal (Chile)

Messier 107 is one of more than 150 globular star clusters found around the disc of the Milky Way galaxy. Image credit - ESA NASA

Milky Way. photo - Carlos Malvar, Stiched panorama

Reflection nebula in the constellation of Orion. Reflection nebulae often look a ghostly bluish color because they reflect scattered light from bright stars nearby

Ring Nebula Deep Field. Credit & Copyright Vicent Peris

Simeis 147 (Spaghetti Nebula) Image Credit Emil Ivanov

Starburst Galaxy NGC 1313, Credit & Copyright - Robert Gendler

Stars, Dust and Nebula in NGC 6559. Copyright Jean-Charles Cuillandre, Hawaiian Starlight, CFHT

Tarantula Nebula in the Large Magellanic Cloud. Credit - ESO

The Bubble Nebula. Image Credit & Copyright - Yves Van den Broek

The Crescent Nebula, a cosmic bubble about 25 light-years across. Photo by Isaac Newton Telescope at Roque de los Muchachos Observatory in the Canary Islands.

The Tarantula Nebula is more than 1,000 light-years in diameter -- a giant star forming region within our neighboring galaxy the Large Magellanic Cloud.  Copyright - John P. Gleason

earth sunrise


spiral galaxy NGC 4565. Also known as the Needle Galaxy for its narrow profile. Image Credit & Copyright Ken Crawford (Rancho Del Sol Obs.)