Andrea Wulf Considers the Rare Humanity of an Eighteenth-Century Naturalist

The Remarkable Life and Times of George Forster

https://lithub.com/andrea-wulf-considers-the-rare-humanity-of-an-eighteenth-century-naturalist/

Books by Georg Forster at PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/37318

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Christmas Sound, Terra del Fuego. The Three Voyages of Captain Cook Round the World. Vol. IV. Being the Second of the Second Voyage. by James Cook and Georg Forster A sepia-toned landscape illustration showing a calm fjord dotted with rocky islets, snow-capped mountains in the distance, and a small sailing ship on the water. In the foreground, two seabirds perch on rugged cliffs to the right, under a pale, hazy sky. https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/61492/pg61492-images.html

#photography #nature #meerMittwoch #seawednesday #spain

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De middellandse zee, met aan de rechterkant rotsen en begroeiing, en linksboven nog wat blauwe lucht.

A beautiful Rose from me for you!

Here is a watercolor I painted a few years ago. Enjoy!

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Yellow Rose is a watercolour painting in landscape format painted by the artist Karen Kaspar. A beautiful rose blossom in shades of bright yellow and orange on a green background spreads its fragrance in this watercolour painting.

"If a man walk in the woods for love of them half of each day, he is in danger of being regarded as a loafer; but if he spends his whole day as a speculator, shearing off those woods and making earth bald before her time, he is esteemed an industrious and enterprising citizen. As if a town had no interest in its forests but to cut them down!"

(Henry David Thoreau)

#nature #Environment #woods #forest #capitalism #Politics

#nature #photography #bloomscrolling #gardening #flowers

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Op de foto twee mooie bloemen.Ik denk dat dit dahlia's zijn.

Then a songbird sang right outside my window.

The fledglings left the nest above my window. For days I could hear them chirping as their parents came to and fro with grub.

Now birds are singing all around my yard as the sun rises.

#Bliss #Thankful #Birds #Nature #Blessed #PraiseGod

Wolf-Rayet Star 124: Stellar Wind Machine
* Image Credit: Hubble Legacy Archive, NASA, ESA; Processing & License: Judy Schmidt
https://hla.stsci.edu/
https://www.nasa.gov/
https://www.esa.int/
https://www.flickr.com/photos/geckzilla/

Explanation:
Some stars explode in slow motion. Rare, massive Wolf-Rayet stars are so tumultuous and hot that they are slowly disintegrating right before our telescopes. Glowing gas globs each typically over 30 times more massive than the Earth are being expelled by violent stellar winds. Wolf-Rayet star WR 124, visible near the featured image center and spanning six light years across, is thus creating the surrounding nebula known as M1-67. Details of why this star has been slowly blowing itself apart over the past 20,000 years remains a topic of research. WR 124 lies 15,000 light-years away towards the constellation of the Arrow (Sagitta). The fate of any given Wolf-Rayet star likely depends on how massive it is, but many are thought to end their lives with spectacular explosions such as supernovas or gamma-ray bursts.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wolf%E2%80%93Rayet_star
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WR_124
https://www.flickr.com/photos/geckzilla/14248502065/
https://www.syfy.com/syfy-wire/a-massive-violent-star-blooms

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aysiMbgml5g
https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/1985A%26A...145L..13V/abstract
https://science.nasa.gov/universe/gamma-ray-bursts-harvesting-knowledge-from-the-universes-most-powerful-explosions/
http://www.hawastsoc.org/deepsky/sge/

https://chandra.harvard.edu/photo/cosmic_distance.html
https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap000318.html

https://spaceplace.nasa.gov/constellations/en/
https://www.universetoday.com/24736/wolf-rayet-star/
https://science.nasa.gov/earth/facts/

https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap250203.html

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2025 February 3 A starfield is shown with a large spherical nebula in the center. The nebula shows a great deal of internal structure. Please see the explanation for more detailed information. Wolf-Rayet Star 124: Stellar Wind Machine * Image Credit: Hubble Legacy Archive, NASA, ESA; Processing & License: Judy Schmidt Explanation: Some stars explode in slow motion. Rare, massive Wolf-Rayet stars are so tumultuous and hot that they are slowly disintegrating right before our telescopes. Glowing gas globs each typically over 30 times more massive than the Earth are being expelled by violent stellar winds. Wolf-Rayet star WR 124, visible near the featured image center and spanning six light years across, is thus creating the surrounding nebula known as M1-67. Details of why this star has been slowly blowing itself apart over the past 20,000 years remains a topic of research. WR 124 lies 15,000 light-years away towards the constellation of the Arrow (Sagitta). The fate of any given Wolf-Rayet star likely depends on how massive it is, but many are thought to end their lives with spectacular explosions such as supernovas or gamma-ray bursts. Authors & editors: Robert Nemiroff (MTU) & Jerry Bonnell (UMCP) NASA Official: Amber Straughn Specific rights apply. NASA Web Privacy, Accessibility, Notices; A service of: ASD at NASA / GSFC, NASA Science Activation & Michigan Tech. U.