Ultimate Places

Just came across this infrared view of the Ring Nebula, and thought I would share it. Though it lacks the brilliant rainbow of colors given off in visible light, it offers a completely different perspective on the nebula, enough that you would be tempted to call it by another name in my opinion. The rose […]

In Alaska the seasons move quickly once the light begins to fade. In a span of a month, or month and a half depending on the year we can slide from a balmy 70-80 degrees, down into the 40’s and 50’s with frost at night. And not long after that you have winter. Which in […]

Having always been fascinated by the life of Ghengis Khan, and the shear magnitude of what he accomplished (for better or worse), I thought I would pass on this recent news article from the BBC, about a man who spent 3 years of his life retracing Khan’s steps, and apparently he didn’t have the easiest […]

While I’m not a glaciologist, I do quite a bit of work with folks who love to study snow and ice, which is why compared to many of the images I have seen, this is one of the better ones. And while Alaska is filled with glaciers, many of them beautiful, few if any are […]

Here’s a piece of news you don’t hear every day. From BBC.
“Some 600 people in Peru have required treatment after an object from space - said to be a meteorite - plummeted to Earth in a remote area, officials say. More >>
From the sounds of it, the meteorite created a pretty serious hole in the […]

To those who don’t believe global warming is real. Today brought more news to the contrary. When are politicians going to get a clue as to the real world implications of this? You have to wonder.
Here’s the headline from BBC News.
Here’s where the Northwest Passage is located, with the ice magically stripped away by Google […]

Well after years of helping maintain remote weather cams and a weather station at Umiat, Alaska, I’m finally going to make my first visit. With two cameras in place for the last 3 years, and another 1-2 two more planned this coming year, I figured a visit was long past due.
Compared to other places in […]

Its not every day that you find a fossil sticking right out of the ground where you can just reach down and grab it, but that’s what happen to a 10-year kid locally, as he walked home from school. Being as large as a toaster it was apparently pretty hard to miss. Hopefully he donates […]

Here’s another cool shot from NASA’s Astronomy Picture of the Day shot by Robert Schwarz. While it doesn’t quite get -90 below in Alaska, it does get in the -40’s and some times colder so I know what this guy must of gone through to get this shot.

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Found this very cool picture of the Milky Way on Wikipedia’s website. Thanks to the Park Service guy that went through the effort to make it.