Ordinary Things
Tower Grove Park, a short walk from my house in STL. Extraordinary things often hide in plain sight. That I'm increasingly noticing this is of the many silver linings to this wretched coronavirus . . .
Tower Grove Park, a short walk from my house in STL. Extraordinary things often hide in plain sight. That I'm increasingly noticing this is of the many silver linings to this wretched coronavirus . . .
Tower Grove Park, near my house in the City of St. Louis, this evening. If you see only trees, you are missing two huge owls way up in the nearest tree.
NGC 4676 (the Mice Galaxies) are two spiral galaxies about 290 million light-years away. They are in the process of colliding and merging.
This photograph was taken by the Hubble Space Telescope in 2002. The size of this combined galaxy is 760,000 light years across. In the background of the Mice Galaxies, there are at least 3300 galaxies, at distances up to 13 billion light-years.
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