pafret Loc: Northeast

"What glows in the night? This night, several unusual glows were evident - some near, but some far. The foreground surf glimmers blue with the light of bioluminescent plankton. Next out, Earth's atmosphere dims the horizon and provides a few opaque clouds. Farther out, the planet Venus glows bright near the image center. If you slightly avert your eyes, a diagonal beam of light will stand out crossing behind Venus. This band is zodiacal light, sunlight scattered by dust in our Solar System.



Much farther away are numerous single bright stars, most closer than 100 light years away. Farthest away, also rising diagonally and making a "V" with the zodiacal light, is the central band of our Milky Way Galaxy. Most of the billions of Milky Way stars and dark clouds are thousands of light years away. The featured image was taken last November on the Iranian coast of Gulf of Oman."

- https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/astropix.html

no propaganda please Loc: moon orbiting the third rock from the sun

Thank you so much. This leaves me in awe of God's wonderful creations. And there are others we know nothing about but will undoubtedly as awesome.

lpnmajor Loc: Arkansas

I sat on a nuclear reactor core cover once, inside a Submarine - and my butt has glowed in the dark ever since. Yeah, that's total BS, what I just said - but I did look to see for a week after that incident.

pafret Loc: Northeast

I don't know that I would be willing -- scratch that I am absolutely certain you would have to shoot me and carry my dead body into a nuclear sub. I believe machines are evil, malevolent, creations and they are animated by the desire to fail when it will do me the most harm.

Consider Fukushima, in 100 million years from now some sentient race will pass by Earth and note the high levels of radiation and total lack of life. Maybe they will still be able to detect the origin point of the rads or maybe they will just pass on by, nothing to see here.

lpnmajor Loc: Arkansas

Yeah, it was part of my job in the Navy, I was looking for cockroaches before issuing a port permit - and the Lord knows, cockroaches thrive in polluted and irradiated environments. Fortunately, I didn't find any roaches, or I'd have had to go back. Other than living on top of a nuclear reactor, the conditions weren't that bad.

lindajoy Loc: right here with you....

Outstanding!!! I saw everything described and the picture so crystal clear!!!! Yes, I snagged it to add to the others... What a magnificent Universe we have, so much to it we will never fully understand its ability!! Absolutely in awe of its brilliance!!!

pafret Loc: Northeast

Linda, the link at the bottom of my post is the source for these photos; they have a new one every day and there are archives of previously published material. I have seen the phosphorescence in bow waves when sailing on Long Island Sound at night, but I have never seen this phenomena. It is incredibly beautiful.

lindajoy Loc: right here with you....

Oh, I know I'm going through it right now!!! Incredibility beautiful an understatement..Captivating it is!!!! I so love reading about it!!!
Thank You again~~~