When that metetorite exploded with the force of 20 Hiroshima bombs over the city of Chelyabinsk in Russia, photographer Marat Ahmetvaleev was out taking beautiful landscape pictures by a frigid -17C and he managed to capture some great shots. Click the link below to see more.
Unique photos of Chelyabinsk meteorite explosion · Russia travel blog.
I didn’t expect such an inquisitive bird in my backyard this morning!
[edit] Added a second shot.
The Moon meets Jupiter, the closest they will be until 2026
If the sky is clear and you can see the moon, you will see exactly this right now. The bright spot above the moon is Jupiter, the closest the both will appear to be until next time in 2026. I just took this picture from my own backyard in Toronto, fifteen minutes ago. Click the picture for full size.
The stars at night
For years the rate of violent crime has fallen in the United States. It’s good news, but experts have never been able to explain why crime rates spiked in the 1980s and 1990s but then dramatically dropped in the 2000s. Theories ranging from improved police techniques to the “crack epidemic” to the legalization of abortion have all been proposed by researchers, but none seem to quite fit the facts.
Now, researchers say they may have found the perfect scapegoat for violent crime: leaded gasoline.
If this is more than a simple statistical coincidence (the same kind that “links” the number of post offices with the number of alcoholics in a city for example), I can’t help but wonder what else will be uncovered.
This is what happens when you put 30 teachers and 2000 ping pong balls in an airplane simulating zero-gravity and it looks like enormous fun!
via io9
So I went downtown today. It was dark and damp but there’s always food for the camera in Toronto.
Shot and processed in phone (Galaxy S2X and Snapseed).
A very special map of Toronto
This is a detail of of a much larger map of the Toronto rivers, creeks and park system at the Evergreen Brick Works. It’s a wonderful place to visit, between the re-purposed industrial buildings that produced the bricks used to build the city now harbouring artists’ workshops and the naturalized adjacent quarry – lots to see.
If you’re a Torontonian, it’s a must-see place! Evergreen.ca