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More NYC Sunsets in HDR by Jenn Tulip, on Flickr

 

Pink and the Perigee Moon
Image Credit & Copyright: Alice Ross

Explanation: On April 25 a nearly full moon rose just before sunset. Welcomed in a clear blue sky and framed by cherry blossoms, its familiar face was captured in this snapshot from Leith, Edinburgh, Scotland. Known to some as a Pink Moon, April's full lunar phase occurred with the moon near perigee. That's the closest point in its not-quite-circular orbit around planet Earth, making this Pink Moon one of the closest and brightest full moons of the year. If you missed it, don't worry. Your next chance to see a full perigee moon will be on May 26. Known to some as a Flower Moon, May's full moon will actually be closer to you than April's by about 98 miles (158 kilometers), or about 0.04% the distance from the Earth to the Moon at perigee.

 

Elvis Presley got his polio vaccination from Dr. Harold Fuerst and Dr. Leona Baumgartner at CBS' Studio 50 in New York City on Oct. 28, 1956. The chart-topping singer took part in a March of Dimes campaign to convince teens to get vaccinated.
Seymour Wally/NY Daily News Archive via Getty Images"

by the way of U.S. Vaccine Hesitancy Is Nothing New. Here's How The Polio Vaccine Overcame It : Shots - Health News : NPR

 

Space Station, Solar Prominences, Sun
Image Credit & Copyright: Mehmet Ergün

Explanation: That's no sunspot. It's the International Space Station (ISS) caught passing in front of the Sun. Sunspots, individually, have a dark central umbra, a lighter surrounding penumbra, and no Dragon capsules attached. By contrast, the ISS is a complex and multi-spired mechanism, one of the largest and most complicated spacecraft ever created by humanity. Also, sunspots circle the Sun, whereas the ISS orbits the Earth. Transiting the Sun is not very unusual for the ISS, which orbits the Earth about every 90 minutes, but getting one's location, timing and equipment just right for a great image is rare. The featured picture combined three images all taken from the same location and at nearly the same time. One image -- overexposed -- captured the faint prominences seen across the top of the Sun, a second image -- underexposed -- captured the complex texture of the Sun's chromosphere, while the third image -- the hardest to get -- captured the space station as it shot across the Sun in a fraction of a second. Close inspection of the space station's silhouette even reveals a docked Dragon Crew capsule.

 

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Mervyn O’Gorman: Christina in Red. (1913. Original color photos)

 

Tallest Kashmiri or The Two Kashmir Giants | A123LAD (wordpress.com)

 

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Far From The Internet, Thomas Dambo's Benevolent Trolls Lure Humans To Nature : NPR

"Recycle art activist" Thomas Dambo makes these gentle giants from scrap wood, old pallets, twigs and debris. Above, Marit in It Sounded Like a Mountain Fell in Wulong, China.
Jacob Keinicke/Thomas Dambo



This Dambo troll is part of the Guardians of the Seeds experience at the Coastal Maine Botanical Gardens.
Tory Paxson/Coastal Maine Botanical Gardens



Creating giant trolls combines Dambo's passion for hidden adventures, Nordic fairy tales and recycling. You can track his trolls at www.trollmap.com.
Jacob Keinicke/Thomas Dambo


Isak Heartstone, a troll in Breckenridge, Colo., was ultimately a victim of his own success — the town voted to dismantle him after locals got fed up with the thousands of tourists coming for troll selfies.
Julian Lynch/Thomas Dambo


Joen and the Giant Beetle in Wynwood Walls, Miami
Thomas Dambo


Hector el Protector was originally built on the Puerto Rican island of Culebra in 2014. Hector was destroyed by Hurricane Maria in 2017, and recreated — now holding up a lantern, as shown above — in 2019.
Tobias Rahim/Thomas Dambo


Mikil of The Seven Trolls and the Magical Tower in Boom, Belgium
Jacob Keinicke/Thomas Dambo

 

The only known color photograph of the exterior of the Hindenburg, believed to be taken in 1937 on the way to South America.