13999527 - This is a panorama of the ground and sky framing the badlands of Dinosaur Provincial Park,in the Red Deer River valley in Alberta,with the summer sky above filled with three dozen meteors from the annual Perseid meteor shower,of August 12,2023. The meteors all appear to be streaking away from the radiant point in Perseus at far left. The location is the upper viewpoint near the Park Entrance,and looking northeast to southeast. The lights in the valley below are from the campground and service centre. The one glaring sodium vapour light should be removed or at least shielded. The brightest hori13813076 - Least Tern (Sterna antillarum), young tern calling, Port Isabel, Laguna Madre, South Padre Island, Texas, USA13899101 - This is NGC 457, the ET or Owl Cluster in Cassiopeia, in a stack of images showing the total number of satellite trails recorded over the 36 minutes of total expposure time this night. By coincidence, the trails frame the main subject, but the number of satellites now above us make it nearly impossible to take a long exposure image, certainly at the start or end of a night, without recording at least one satellite trail, if not more, per image. Some of the parallel streaks could be Starlink satellites.13899076 - Comet Lovejoy, C/2014 Q2 amid the clusters, nebulas and dark dust clouds of Taurus and Perseus, on Friday, January 16, 2016. Its long blue ion tail stretches back at least 15°, almost to the open cluster NGC 1647 on Taurus at the left edge. At centre is the Pleiades star cluster, M45; at top right is the red California Nebula, NGC 1499, in Perseus, while the field is filled with the dark dusty lanes of the Taurus Dark Clouds. At left is the red giant star Aldebaran amid the V-shaped Hyades star cluster.13878651 - Niger, Sahara Desert, Agadez Region, Two Tuareg men examining the famous rock engravings of the Two Giant Giraffes of Dabous believed to be at least 6.000 years old (belonging to the Chasseur Primitif or The Primitive Hunter Period); Dabous71418326 - USA, Washington State. Least Chipmunk (Tamias minimus) pauses from gathering seeds on Cooper Ridge.14270096 - The Wilmington Yew, a yew tree believed to be at least 1600 years old, in the churchyard of St. Mary and St. Peter, Wilmington, East Sussex, England, United Kingdom, Europe13707760 - Lava bombs erupt from multiple vents on volcano, active for at least 2000 years, Stromboli, Aeolian Islands, UNESCO World Heritage Site, Sicily, Italy, Mediterranean, Europe13707765 - Lava bombs erupt from multiple vents on volcano, active for at least 2000 years, Stromboli, Aeolian Islands, UNESCO World Heritage Site, Sicily, Italy, Mediterranean, Europe13708216 - At least five cricket matches being played on the Azad Maidan, formerly known as Bombay Gymkhana Maidan in the city centre, Mumbai, India, Asia13707759 - Lava bombs erupt from multiple vents on volcano, active for at least 2000 years, Stromboli, Aeolian Islands, UNESCO World Heritage Site, Sicily, Italy, Mediterranean, Europe13707762 - Lava bombs erupt from one of many vents on volcano, active for at least 2000 years, Stromboli, Aeolian Islands, UNESCO World Heritage Site, Sicily, Italy, Mediterranean, Europe13707761 - Lava bombs erupt from multiple vents on this volcano, active for at least 2000 years, Stromboli, Aeolian Islands, UNESCO World Heritage Site, Sicily, Italy, Mediterranean, Europe13707764 - Lava bombs erupt from multiple vents on volcano, active for at least 2000 years, Stromboli, Aeolian Islands, UNESCO World Heritage Site, Sicily, Italy, Mediterranean, Europe13707763 - Lava bombs erupt from multiple vents on volcano, active for at least 2000 years, Stromboli, Aeolian Islands, UNESCO World Heritage Site, Sicily, Italy, Mediterranean, Europe71228381 - In a scene of oddly formed icebergs, one features a delicate looking archway at least 20 meters high, Pleneau Island, Wilhelm Archipelago, Antarctica70343565 - Parakeet Auklet Aethia psittacula, Pribilof Island, with two least auklets on cliff America, North America, Alaska, Pribilof Islands, July 199771103376 - Very fast moving and severe bow echo moves down the highway from Redfield to Watertown South Dakota. Forward speed of the bow was around 60mph. At least 80mph winds accompanied the bow in areas, with many trees uprooted, poles snapped, gran bins destroyed71034309 - Least chipmunk (Neotamias minimus) eating, Custer State Park, South Dakota, United States of America, North America70343574 - Least Auklet Aethia pusilla, Pribilof Island Least Auklets are the smalles of all auks and very often form large colonies during the breeding season America, North America, Alaska, Pribilof Islands, July 199771103017 - Least Bittern - Green Cay Wetlands - Boynton Beach, Florida USA.71048845 - Least chipmunk (Neotamias minimus), Custer State Park, South Dakota, United States of America, North America70238470 - Pentre Ifan, near Newport Bay, Presley Hills, cromlech, Bronze-Age megalithic site dating from at least 4000 B.C, Pembrokeshire, Wales, UK71103377 - Very fast moving and severe bow echo moves down the highway from Redfield to Watertown South Dakota. Forward speed of the bow was around 60mph. At least 80mph winds accompanied the bow in areas, with many trees uprooted, poles snapped, gran bins destroyed71052175 - Two least chipmunk (Tamias minimus), Custer State Park, South Dakota, United States of America, North America70409695 - Loch Awe, Argyll and Bute, Scotland Innis Chonnel Castle, evening light Early Campbell stronghold at least 700 years old70401413 - Dzogchen Monastery a religious institution, founded between 1625 and rebuilt at least twice since. Maintained as a centre of Buddhist teaching and education. Rows of traditional wooden trumpets, musical instruments., Sichuan Tibet70390555 - Adult Bryde´s whale Balaenoptera edeni surface skim feeding on euphausids off Isla del Carmen in the southern Gulf of California Sea of Cortez, Baja California Sur, Mexico MORE INFO Bryde´s whales are the least known of the large baleen whales, yet perha70343573 - Least Auklet Aethia pusilla, Pribilof Island Least Auklets are the smalles of all auks and very often form large colonies during the breeding season America, North America, Alaska, Pribilof Islands, July 199771325224 - Close-up of a Least carpet moth (Idaea rusticata) resting camouflaged on a birch tree in a Norfolk garden in summer UK70501384 - The Ertl family tends to their beef cattle in the small Bavarian village of Lenggries. The children are exposed to cattle and the barn every day as they help with small chores on the farm which has been in Jakob's family since 1773, at least 9 generation70523823 - Least Chipmunk (Neotamias minimus) eating, Custer State Park, South Dakota, United States of America, North America70501300 - MOLOKAI, HI - A view down Kalualohe Gulch road in the Kamakou preserve on Molokai, Hawaii. The rain forest of Kamakou Preserve lies near the summit of Molokai's highest mountain. Here you will find more than 250 species of Hawaiian plants - at least 219 70501386 - The Ertl family tends to their beef cattle in the small Bavarian village of Lenggries. The children are exposed to cattle and the barn every day as they help with small chores on the farm which has been in Jakob's family since 1773, at least 9 generation70501387 - The Ertl family tends to their beef cattle in the small Bavarian village of Lenggries. The children are exposed to cattle and the barn every day as they help with small chores on the farm which has been in Jakob's family since 1773, at least 9 generation70501385 - A young boy plays with farm toys at his home in the small Bavarian village of Lenggries. The children are exposed to cattle and the barn every day as they help with small chores on the farm which has been in Jakob's family since 1773, at least 9 generati71228380 - One of numerous icebergs features an unlikely towering archway at least 20 meters high, Pleneau Island, Wilhelm Archipelago, Antarctica
