Month: June 2016

June 2016 – SPACE – Astronomers are not entirely sure what it is. If, as they suspect, the gas ball is the result of a supernova, then it’s the most powerful supernova ever seen. In June of 2015, astronomers viewed a ball of hot gas billions of light years away that is radiating the energy of hundreds of billions of suns. Even in a discipline that regularly uses gigantic numbers to express size or distance, the case of this small but powerful mystery object in the center of the gas ball is extreme. At its heart is an object a little larger than 10 miles across. ASAS-SN-15lh, as the object is known, was twice as luminous as any previously seen, far brighter than any normal supernova, and outshone our entire Milky Way galaxy by 50 times.

 The artist’s impression below shows what it would look like from an exoplanet 10,000…

This 21 June 2016 video shows a hoopoe in Andalusia in Spain.

I was privileged to see these beautiful birds in Extremadura and elsewhere.

This 21 June 2016 video shows a red fox in Andalusia, Spain.

This 19 June 2016 video shows a Oenanthe hispanica, a black-eared wheatear, in Andalusia in Spain.

Environmental News Network reports

The globally increasing light pollution has negative effects on organisms and entire ecosystems. The consequences are especially hard on nocturnal insects, since their attraction to artificial light sources generally ends fatal. A new study by Swiss zoologists from the Universities of Basel and Zurich now shows that urban moths have learned to avoid light.

Source: Wildlife and Habitat Conservation News: Moths in cities have learned to avoid man-made light

Where do the wind beings live?

Beyond the noon-

Bright country,

Beyond the stars, glimmering,

Beyond the tired, trafficked city,

Unencumbered, they live in the mountains that give

Peace, among the lilies of eternity,

By the wandering white petals of the moon

In the forest of flowers where

Only the wild ones talk

And where the wind beings walk

By the shell-encrusted shore,

There the red-tailed hawk

And the northern harrier,

Gray as the sea,

Fly through the air,

To reclaim their destiny,

In lands swept clean of the paltry ploy

Of thought,

And the detritus of crumpled litter

Of the corrupted that crawl

In the grime

Of the sound-dinned

Corners of the mind, strangely-wrought.

Arise, Hanuman,

Son of the wind,

To toss

Aside all the devils of time,

To unseat the wicked, wailing,

To thunder

Across

The waves, ever-crashing

Of the sparkling, emerald sea

Of nevermore,

To lead all…

This video from Britain says about itself:

Song Thrush Bird Singing in The Trees

Filmed on May 23rd 2016

Video Produced by Paul Dinning – Wildlife in Cornwall

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