Absolute Unit

This enormous wolf

you and your words flooded my senses

your sentences left me defenseless

you built me palaces out of paragraphs

you built cathedrals

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Dog carved into a tree stump.

yorkshire.fossils Following from yesterday’s Nautilus post, our only pyritic specimen to that standard in around ten years… here’s another my dad, Mark (who prepared all of our fossils to an excellent standard) found very recently!! ⛏⛏ Unbelievably, six other fossil hunters areas of us had walked past it and missed this rare quality fossil! The original shell is preserved on this specimen which is uncommon! When prepared, it should be a beautiful chocolate colour 🍫 😍

Fiann on Instagram: “Here is a shot along the vertebral column of my smallest ichthyosaur called Bella. At the end you’ll see how her vertebrae compare to the biggest vert I’ve found from the same location. This huge bone is from an animal that would have been over 8 metres long, which is a bit bigger than poor little Bella! These fossils are both around 198 million years old. Bella was prepared by the ever talented @alexander_james_moore.

https://www.instagram.com/p/BfejEiCHRrt/

The Bortle Scale and Light Pollution

The Bortle Scale is used by astronomers to rate the darkness of our skies. It ranges from 1 (darkest) to 9 (brightest). For most of us, our daily lives are spent beneath a radiance level of between 5 and 8 and rarely venture into areas ranked 3 or darker- and what a shame that is.

Light pollution, while a testament to our technological advances, has blanketed our view of the universe and decoupled our relationship with the cosmos. For the millions of people living in areas where less than 20 stars can be seen in the night sky, it is practically impossible to imagine a natural sky blanketed with upwards of 2,500 stars backed by great ribbons of billions of stars which can be found in our Galaxy: The Milky Way.

What are the effects of light pollution?

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