MORE to follow
Behold: star-forming region NGC 2014, also known as the Cosmic Reef: bright ridges of interstellar gas and dust bathed in energetic starlight. To wit:
Drifting just off shore, the smaller NGC 2020, is an expansive blue-hued structure erupting from a single central Wolf-Rayet star, 200,000 times brighter than the Sun. The cosmic frame spans some 600 light-years within the Large Magellanic Cloud 160,000 light-years away, a satellite galaxy of our Milky Way. A magnificent Hubble Space Telescope portrait, the image was released this week as part of a celebration to mark Hubble’s 30th year exploring the Universe from Earth orbit.
Animator Steve Cutts revisits his excellent 2012 short (watch that here) to reflect the times we live in now.
Desperate times.
Newmarket Square Dublin 8 (building site for an New Premier Inn hotel).
Thanks Harry Warren
Lines on the lockdown to broadsheet@broadsheet.ie marked ‘Lines On The Lockdown’
Earlier: A Limerick A Day
Micronova
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A chemical reaction filmed in a single shot at microscopic close range over an area of 8mm² by Roman Hill – a reminder of how similar the universe can appear on vastly different scales.
PPE And Me
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The ‘Bemused’ clan.
They just keep hanging on
Broadsheet commenter ‘Slightly Bemused’ writes:
A few weeks ago Nick had a competition and I spouted on about Perfect Day and how my family were doing our own version. I promised to keep people updated
Today, the results landed (above), and my brother posted it to YouTube, so I guess it is public.
Not the world’s best performance, but not the worst either. In any event, my family – 5 generations across 4 continents represented. I am in there, but I am not telling :-)
PS They are now talking about a sequel, and looking for suggestions.
Anyone?
Meanwhile…
Mick writes:
I thought this might be a good place to share a video some friends put together during the current lockdown. The writer, videographer and vocalist all live together as housemates.
Coydig
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Highlight of lockdown: dyeing the dog green without my mammy knowing pic.twitter.com/nL4l7kDx3q
— Caitlin O’Connor (@Caitlin90453417) April 26, 2020
Arf.
No animal was harmed in the making of this video.
Non-toxic dye used.
In other news. Green coloured dog seeks new owner.
The Next New Low – The Next New Low
Brian Mooney‘s new 5-track EP And As For Loss…, recorded under the moniker of The Next New Low, is his heartbreaking musical eulogy to his late wife Aoife.
“Written over an 18 month period from cancer diagnosis to its end,” Brian writes on his bandcamp page.
It’s an astonishing record that hits you right in your gut, and honours a life lived in love.
Conor O’Brien of Villagers plays flugelhorn.
Nick says: Magic and loss.