Nature
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One thing I miss in Texas is BIG trees like what grow up in Kansas. I have always wanted to see these majestic trees and have never gotten to.
#RCJH GO KU
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@RockChalkinTexas-0 said in Nature:
One thing I miss in Texas is BIG trees like what grow up in Kansas. I have always wanted to see these majestic trees and have never gotten to.
I can attest that the Redwoods and Giant Sequoias are spectacularly huge, majestic and awe-inspiring.
There is a property a couple blocks from me that has 3 redwoods on it and was recently bought by a developer who razed the classic mid-century house and is squeezing in five rental units. I've been pretty concerned that the development will put one or more at risk... It's really sad because those trees have been there since before Columbus discovered the new world.
I'm generally not a tree-hugger, but trees that are more than 500 years old should be considered national treasures.
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@bskeet I had a few trees about this size (
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@nuleafjhawk Sorry for your loss, sincerely. During the freeze of 2021 I lost 17 really tall palm trees that were behind my garden/solarium. Not to mention the many limbs that came down from my live oaks. It hurts to lose a friend!
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Voyager 1 is getting close to reaching one light DAY after travelling all this time through interstellar space. It boggles the mind what technology from September of 1977 has produced. The distance of Voyager 1 from Earth is currently 25,454,331,948.8 kilometers, equivalent to 170.1516995509 Astronomical Units. Light takes 23h 35m 6.512s to travel from Voyager 1 and arrive to us. I follow it on Twitter and it posts it's location throughout the day. On the flip side, it is such an incredibly small distance to cover over all this time when compared to the distance of neighboring stars. It's simultaneously a major achievement and very humbling. Your phone charger is smarter than the computer on Voyager 1.
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Another picture of Hattie under the bird feeder, apparently eating the shells from the black sunflower seeds in the feeder. The birds do NOT like her being there. Male Cardinals dive bomb her.
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I worked with an attorney who was on the Board of Directors of McDonald Observatory and he would bring me 11 x 17 official and stunning photographs from Hubble Telescope along with reading material. I have dozens of the most famous of its findings. On the back or a slip of paper inside would reveal what it is. This below is the globular cluster NGC 6723, also known as the Chandelier Cluster. Each of its ‘lightbulbs’ is an individual star 27,000 light-years away in the constellation Sagittarius (the Archer)
Globular clusters contain some of the oldest stars in our galaxy 
with some clusters nearly as old as the Universe itself! Exactly how globular clusters form is not yet known...... but observing programmes using Hubble have revealed clues to the history of globular clusters like NGC 6723, which appears to have undergone two periods of star formation.
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NASA just announced that #Voyager 1 will reach 1 light-day from Earth at 12:16:07 a.m. CST on November 18, 2026. At that point, any signal we send to the spacecraft will take 24 hours to reach it. (2 days before my birthday!)
