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Colossal: Exceptionally Slow-Motion Footage Documents Tropical Butterflies Bursting from Their Chrysalises and Taking Flight, Tropical Butterflies in Slow Mo & Behind the Scenes!”  Dec 14, 2021  Ant Lab

A New Infrared View of the Dolomites by Paolo Pettigiani Shows Craggy Landscapes in Cotton Candy Colors, MARCH 26, 2018  LAURA STAUGAITIS

Live Science: TOP SCIENCE NEWS

X-ray analysis reveals ‘highly decorated’ Viking sword caked in dirt and rust

Rare wispy ice formations streak across the sea near Antarctica in beautiful satellite images

Physicists create new state of matter from quantum soup of magnetically weird particles

Light Space & Time Online Art Gallery

“Open” 2021 Art Exhibition – Part 1 – Overall and Painting Categories, Aug 2, 2021  Light Space & Time Online Art Gallery

“Open” 2015 Online Art Exhibition – Part 2 – Painting Category, Sep 2, 2015  Light Space & Time Online Art Gallery

Colossal: Exceptionally Slow-Motion Footage Documents Tropical Butterflies Bursting from Their Chrysalises and Taking Flight, DECEMBER 15, 2021,  GRACE EBERT

In an extravagant display of evolutionary tricks and mating rituals, new footage by Adrian Smith of the wildly popular Ant Lab YouTube channel focuses on six tropical butterflies. The extremely slow-motion montage zeroes in on a trio of tropical creatures as they crack open and emerge from their chrysalises and others like the striking Blue Morpho as they take flight. Smith paired the spectacular clips with behind-the-scenes footage of the North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences Living Conservatory, which fosters a climate-controlled environment that hundreds of butterflies hatch from every few weeks. If you haven’t seen his previous footage yet, make sure you watch these moths and an unusual muppet-esque troupe as they lift off the ground. (via The Kids Should See This)

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Tropical Butterflies in Slow Mo & Behind the Scenes!” 

Dec 14, 2021  Ant Lab

I filmed slow motion flight and time-lapse eclosion sequences of tropical butterflies, and give a behind-the-scenes tour of our museum’s walk-in tropical rainforest exhibit. Check out https://naturalsciences.org/ for info about when to visit our museum and the butterflies. [Right now (Dec, 2021) the exhibit is closed due to pandemic-related safety measures. But we’re all hoping we can lift restrictions and get it open to all again soon!] Content 00:00 – owl butterfly 01:09 – behind the scenes 02:22 – timelapse eclosion 03:29 – longwings 04:13 – blue morpho 05:14 – malachite 05:38 – cattleheart 06:21 – blue morpho Butterfly species (in order of appearance) “Owl butterfly” – Caligo eurilochus “Blue-frosted Banner” Male – Catonephele numilia “Heliconious Longwing” – Heliconius hecale “Monarch” – Danaus plexippus “Heliconious Longwing” (on left) – Heliconius melpomene “Heliconious Longwing” (on right) – Heliconius hecale “Blue Morpho” – Morpho peleides “Malachite” – Siproeta stelenes “Cattleheart” – Parides arcas Music licensed from soundofpicture.com Follow on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/dradriansmith/ Follow on Twitter: https://twitter.com/DrAdrianSmith#BUTTERFLIES #INSECTS #VIDEO

For more information, please visit the following link:

https://www.thisiscolossal.com/2021/12/adrian-smith-butterflies/?mc_cid=760adfbb14&mc_eid=e0479fdbb0

A New Infrared View of the Dolomites by Paolo Pettigiani Shows Craggy Landscapes in Cotton Candy Colors

MARCH 26, 2018  LAURA STAUGAITIS

26-year old photographer Paolo Pettigiani (previously) has been taking pictures since age 11, and in the last few years has produced several series of eye-popping infrared images. Pettigiani’s most recent work showcases the Dolomites, a craggy mountain range in the northeastern region of his native Italy.

Infrared photography uses a special film or light sensor that processes the usually not-visible wavelengths of infrared light (specifically near-infrared, as opposed to far-infrared, which is used in thermal imaging.) The resulting images from Pettigiani depict the stands of coniferous trees as watermelon-pink, while surfaces that don’t reflect IR light stay more true to their nature hues. You can see more of the artist’s photographs on his website, as well as on Behance and Instagram. Pettigiani also offers prints of his work via Lumas.

For more information, please visit the following link:

https://www.thisiscolossal.com/2018/03/dolomites-by-paolo-pettigiani/

Live Science: TOP SCIENCE NEWS

X-ray analysis reveals ‘highly decorated’ Viking sword caked in dirt and rust

(Historic Environment Scotland)

Archaeologists in Scotland have revealed the ornate hilt of a Viking sword after scanning it with X-rays. The sword is highly corroded and covered in dirt, but the new images show the weapon in a new light and reveal its striking design.

The sword is part of a hoard of Viking treasures unearthed in 2015 at a burial site on Papa Westray, one of the Orkney Islands located north of mainland Scotland. Archaeologists found the sword laid atop human remains. The burial also contained a buckle, arrows and a shield boss — the metal, central part of a shield. The site likely dates back to the first-generation Norwegian settlers, who came to the Orkney Islands during the 10th century, according to Historic Environment Scotland.

Full Story: Live Science (12/14)

Live Science: AMAZING EARTH Rare wispy ice formations streak across the sea near Antarctica in beautiful satellite images (NASA Earth Observatory/Joshua Stevens/Landsat 8) Strong winds and unusual ocean currents helped paint a breathtaking icescape on the surface of the ocean near Antarctica, and the rare phenomenon was recently captured in a stunning satellite image. The incredible image was taken on Nov. 20 by the Operational Land Imager onboard Landsat 8, a collaboration between NASA and the U.S. Geological Survey, and was released on Dec. 8 by NASA’s Earth Observatory. The picture focuses on a channel of water about 3.7 miles (6 kilometers) across between the Ronne Ice Shelf — a permanent floating extension of the main Antarctic Ice Sheet, which birthed A-76, the world’s largest iceberg, in May — and a large chunk of sea ice in the Weddell Sea. Full Story: Live Science (12/14)

Live Science: MATH & PHYSICS Physicists create new state of matter from quantum soup of magnetically weird particles (Phillip Tur via Shutterstock) Scientists have spotted a long hypothesized, never-seen-before state of matter in the laboratory for the first time. By firing lasers at an ultracold lattice of rubidium atoms, scientists have prodded the atoms into a messy soup of quantum uncertainty known as a quantum spin liquid. The atoms in this quantum magnetic soup quickly became connected, linking up their states across the entire material in a process called quantum entanglement. This means that any change to one atom causes immediate changes in all of the others in the material; this breakthrough could pave the way for the development of even better quantum computers, the researchers said in a paper describing their findings Dec. 3 in the journal Science. Full Story: Live Science (12/14)

“Open” 2021 Art Exhibition – Part 1 – Overall and Painting Categories

Aug 2, 2021  Light Space & Time Online Art Gallery

Visit our Website https://www.lightspacetime.art Light Space & Time Online Art Gallery is pleased to announce that its 11th Annual “Open” 2021 Art Exhibition is now posted on its website and ready to be viewed online. 2D and 3D, artists were asked to submit their best representational and/or abstract art. The gallery received submissions from 26 different countries around the world and 36 different states including the District of Columbia. Overall, the gallery received 879 entries that were judged for this art competition. Congratulations to Overall 1st Place winner, John H. Diephouse, and all the artists designated as this month’s winners, along with the Special Merit and Special Recognition artists. To proceed to the gallery’s 11th Annual “Open” online art exhibition follow this link: https://www.lightspacetime.art/open-a….

“Open” 2015 Online Art Exhibition – Part 2 – Painting Category

Sep 2, 2015  Light Space & Time Online Art Gallery

Visit our Website https://www.lightspacetime.art Light Space & Time Online Art Gallery is pleased to announce that the September 2015 Open Art Exhibition is now posted on their website and is ready to be viewed online. The “Open” is a No Theme Art Competition, whereby artists were asked to submit their best representational or abstract artworks on any subject matter. An art competition was held in August 2015 which determined and judged the art for this exhibition. The gallery received submissions from 19 different countries from around the world and they also received entries from 34 different states and the District of Columbia. Overall, there were 734 entries judged for this art competition. The Guest Judge for this competition was Jeffrey Shonkwiler the Founder of Florida Artists Registry, a member supported arts organization, created in 2000. He is past director of Gallery at Avalon Island where he curated over 60 exhibits. http://artistsregistry.com. Congratulations to the artists who have been designated as this month’s category winners, along with the winning Special Merit and Special Recognition artists. The gallery commends all of the winning artists for their artistic skill and their creativity, as this online art exhibition is indicative of their creativity. To proceed to the gallery’s “Open” online art exhibition follow this link https://www.lightspacetime.art/open-n….

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