Michael Porter @MichaelPorter@qoto.org

Aurora borealis on Jupiter, imaged by the Hubble telescope on Sept 29, 2022.
See the odd, comet-like streak at right? That's the magnetic imprint of Jupiter's moon Io! Its volcanoes spew out fumes that create their own aurora display.
https://www.planetarylightshow.com/jupiter/prop_16193/v54-oef454vrq.html #space #Hubble

Heroin chic cannot be allowed to come back going into winter and a recession. We need meat on bones to survive this. It is time for Beef To The Heels chic, Fine Ball Of A Woman chic, She'd Go Boggin' On Soft Ground chic

This is a tiny piece of limestone but still an absolute favourite - a wee Loxonema gastropod sat on top of a bryozoan that is lying on a crinoid ossicle, which is on top of a brachiopod fragment! Rocks are awesome. 330 million years old from Fife, Scotland 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

Dreaming of carboniferous coal swamps 🌿 Alethopteris and Calamites from the Scottish Coal Measures of Fife 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

Figured I should explain this here in case folk are wondering why my finger is often in my photos - I have scale bars tattooed on my index fingers, the lines and dots are 5mm apart and they’re super useful for quick field photos 😅 Demonstrated here with some gorgeous crinoidal limestone from Fife 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

Finally got some more data of the Orion Nebula. This is about 60 min of data. Still observing, but I was too curious and started some processing while data capture continues.

Amazing how colorful this is, even without any filters and color compositing. #astrophotography

These striations were formed by the movement of an ice sheet that covered parts of Fife around 20000 years ago (which is actually very recent 😅). As a glacier flows it drags along sediment and other debris at its base, scouring and abrading the underlying bedrock.
The presence of cross-cutting striations indicates at least two different directions of glacial flow 🧊

to catch a train, first you must learn to think like a train

Firstly, I'd just like to say thank you to all the people who have liked, boosted and commented on my images, and to all the new followers I have. It's rather humbling. 😊

Today's shot comes from a magical day in the Scottish #Highlands, a few years ago, when I was photographing red squirrels.

These charming characters are incredibly agile and can jump great distances between trees.

Here I managed to capture one as it appears to be flying down my lens.

#redsquirrel #scotland #wildlife #fun

Lovely shot of the #Artemis1 Orion spacecraft from three days ago, with both its NASA & ESA logos in view on the European service module, & the Moon in the background.

Image taken by one of the highly-modified GoPro HERO4 Black cameras placed on the end of each of the four solar wings.

Rotated by 90° as done by ESA over on the bird site relative to the original from here: https://flic.kr/p/2o2iezg

(And yes, I know 🍆🤷‍♂️🙂)

#astrodon #spaceflight #photography