Mushroom cloud over Nagasaki
Nagasaki was the second Japanese city to be bombed by the US in the dying days of World War II. Unlike "Little Boy" dropped on Hiroshima on the 6th August 1945, Nagasaki's bomb, christened "Fat Man", was plutonium based and dropped three days later on the 9th August.
Although this second bomb was more powerful than that dropped on Hiroshima, the hilly terrain of Nagasaki protected it to some extent and there was no firestorm. The effects were still catastrophic, with the exact death toll unknown but estimated at about 75,000.
Photo taken by Charles Levy on August 9, 1945
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Rusted barrel trash can at pyramids of giza egypt
Credit: Monoram
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Thomas Edison with his second phonograph, photographed in 1878
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The phonograph was Edison's first major invention and the one that earned him the moniker "the wizard of Menlo Park" as the invention was so unexpected by the public as to appear magical. His first invention recorded on tinfoil around a grooved cylinder, and although the recordings could only be played a few times due to low quality, Edison's reputation was cemented.
He demonstrated the device on November 29, 1877 (date disputed), having announced its invention days before. He would patent it later that February. Recalling a demonstration in December, an employee of Scientific American magazine wrote:
"In December, 1877, a young man came into the office of the SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN, and placed before the editors a small, simple machine about which very few preliminary remarks were offered. The visitor without any ceremony whatever turned the crank, and to the astonishment of all present the machine said: "Good morning. How do you do? How do you like the phonograph?" The machine thus spoke for itself, and made known the fact that it was the phonograph..."
An abandoned piano dumped on the beach, apparently from a music video that was filmed there shortly before. Vestrahorn, Hofn, Iceland. Credit: melvin nicholson
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'Calutron Girls' monitoring a mass spectrometer during the Manhattan Project. Gladys Owens, in the foreground, did not know what she was involved with until seeing this picture on a tour fifty years later.
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Earthrise
On Dec. 24, 1968, Apollo 8 astronauts Frank Borman, Jim Lovell, and Bill Anders became the first humans to orbit the Moon, and the first to witness the magnificent sight called "Earthrise."
Credit: NASA
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A photo of the 1910 Ford Model T. This photo was used for advertising.
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Methane Bubbles, Abraham Lake, Kootenay Plains, Canadian Rockies
Credit: Melvin Nicholson
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Any ideas why some of my notes don't go to any relays when published? #asknostr
NASA's New Horizons spacecraft captured this high-resolution enhanced color view of Charon, Pluto's largest moon, just before closest approach on July 14, 2015.
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Timelapse, Misty Sunrise at Lake Bled, Slovenia by melvin nicholson
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Sunrise over Mont Saint Michel, Normandy, France by melvin nicholson
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Lunar Halo by melvin nicholson
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Context: After taking my somewhat popular Fogbow photo back in Nov 2016 in Glencoe, Scotland and my Sundog photo (a form of sunbow around the sun) Feb 2019 in Reine, Lofoten, the only image I was after to complete my 'Bow Trilogy' was a lunar halo and yesterday morning I managed to complete my wish.
Thanks to both my clients Cerise and Neale for making me aware that there was a lunar halo taking place while I was loading up our minibus with everyone's luggage en-route back to the airport after a really enjoyable week away on my Lofoten winter workshop,
I turned around to see this incredible, huge lunar halo that filled the sky and the light of the moon reflecting beautifully on the water of the ocean in the distance. It was amazing to witness. The temperature was around -1°c.
I quickly whipped out my Canon EOS R complete with their 24-70mm f4 lens and fired off just two shots (it's all I had time for). I used Benro's superb little Travel Angel tripod which thankfully provided a stable platform even when stood in deep snow.
Arp 122, a peculiar galaxy that in fact comprises two galaxies — NGC 6040, the tilted, warped spiral galaxy and LEDA 59642, the round, face-on spiral — that are in the midst of a collision.
Image Credit: ESA/Hubble & NASA, J. Dalcanton, Dark Energy Survey/DOE/FNAL/DECam/CTIO/NOIRLab/NSF/AURA
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The explosion from Castle Bravo over Bikini Atoll in 1954
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Context:
When the United States tested its first lithium deuteride-fueled thermonuclear weapon on March 1, 1954, the team of scientists behind the test expected an explosion with a yield of 6 megatons. Instead, the detonation was 15 megatons - 1000 times more powerful than the bomb dropped on Hiroshima - inadvertently making it the fifth-largest nuclear explosion in history, and causing serious problems in the area where the test took place.
Bikini Atoll had been selected for the test, having had its native population relocated in the late 1940s in preparation for the creation of a nuclear test zone. When Castle Bravo was detonated on March 1, 1954, the radioactive fallout from the test spread as far as 100 miles (160 km) east of the atoll into areas that were inhabited. In addition a Japanese fishing vessel called Daigo Fukuryū Maru with 23 people on board came into direct contact with the fallout and the crew suffered from acute radiation sickness for weeks afterward. 15 atolls were affected, and residents of some were evacuated 48 hours after the detonation.
Even the test crew took shelter for several hours once they realized the explosion was much larger than anticipated. Trace amounts of radioactivity were recorded as far away as Australia, India and parts of Europe. In the years after the test several Marshall Islanders began to experience health issues, including birth defects and tumors, as a result of the test, and the US government eventually paid them compensation.
The incident caused controversy about nuclear testing in the atmosphere, and eventually the United States, the UK and the Soviet Union agreed to ban tests in the atmosphere in 1963.
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A total solar eclipse is seen in Dallas, Texas on Monday, April 8, 2024. A total solar eclipse swept across a narrow portion of the North American continent from Mexico’s Pacific coast to the Atlantic coast of Newfoundland, Canada. A partial solar eclipse was visible across the entire North American continent along with parts of Central America and Europe.
Credit: NASA
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The so-called Highway of Death in Iraq after coalition planes repeatedly bombed it during Operation Desert Storm
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The Milky Way by fabrizio massetti
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