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Pixel Idiots @pixelidiots.bsky.social · 11/01/2025

Deep in the forest, a faint glow of northern lights. Our night is dark but the arctic is bathing in sunlight. By resonance scattering in the very high atmosphere, nitrogen aurora reflects blue sunlight towards us. And when this travels through curtains of red oxygen aurora, a lovely pink appears.

Blue and pink aurora borealis (northern lights) in the very high atmosphere above the arctic region, photographed from the shadow part of the Earth near latitude 53 North.

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Pixel Idiots @pixelidiots.bsky.social · 09/01/2025

No, we’re not on Mars. These barchan (barkhan) sand dunes formed on the beach when a strong and steady wind blew for a weeks, coming from just one direction. The barchans travelled 3 meters per day and after a night without wind, a thin layer of sublimated water ice formed on the surface.

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ᴄʜᴀʀʟᴇʏ★ᴘɪʀᴏᴛʜ @charlespiroth.bsky.social · 02/01/2025

Kondrat Evdokimovich Maksimov - "Disturbed Silence" (1973)

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Pixel Idiots @pixelidiots.bsky.social · 26/12/2024

A sunny day in spring, a layer of warm air hangs over cold sea water. Mirages appear, far away ships become distorted and a mysterious island floats over the horizon. Perhaps this is where the Lady Morgan lives?

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Pixel Idiots @pixelidiots.bsky.social · 24/12/2024

Some folklorists think that the “Yellow Brick Road” leading to the Land of Oz was inspired by reflection of light from the rising Moon over Lake Michigan, as seen from the Chicago waterfront.

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Pixel Idiots @pixelidiots.bsky.social · 24/12/2024

Luckily Bluesky has an easy way to turn off direct messages (DM); like turning off your doorbell when you’re not expecting anyone. (rtfm), keep the blue skies clear 😉.

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Pixel Idiots @pixelidiots.bsky.social · 21/12/2024

As night falls in the forest, stars draw circles of light around the North Star.

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Pixel Idiots @pixelidiots.bsky.social · 18/12/2024

Rosy fingered Maram beachgrass at dusk.

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Pixel Idiots @pixelidiots.bsky.social · 17/12/2024

Somehow this photograph of sand waves on the beach reminds me of the London-Berlin techno music of the early 1990's. Just a base rhythm, some distortion and a massive amount of air pressure.

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Pixel Idiots @pixelidiots.bsky.social · 15/12/2024

Timelapse of Noctilucent Clouds (NLC) at dawn, reflecting sunlight near a height of 80 km (50 miles). These night-shining clouds only appear when this part of the high atmosphere - the upper mesosphere - gets cold enough to form tiny crystals of water ice.

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Pixel Idiots @pixelidiots.bsky.social · 14/12/2024

Tide still coming in at nightfall, no wind.

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Pixel Idiots @pixelidiots.bsky.social · 11/12/2024

Empty space isn’t empty at all. Quantum Physics shows that even a pure vacuum fluctuates with tiny amounts of energy or virtual particles moving in and out of existence. As a creative experiment, we made a conceptual simulation of a sea of virtual particles near a depth of the Planck length.

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Pixel Idiots @pixelidiots.bsky.social · 11/12/2024

And here is how the empty space simulation was made in Adobe After Effects with the use of the Trapcode Particular plug-in. The workflow is similar to designing audio samples. Take two harmonic oscillators - Emitter and Aux System - and let them interact until a useful output appears.

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Pixel Idiots @pixelidiots.bsky.social · 05/12/2024

Timelapse of Maram beachgrass (Ammophila) during stormy weather. You find Maram grass on coastal dunes where it catches wind blown sand and keeps the dunes intact as the roots of the plant go meters deep.

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Pixel Idiots @pixelidiots.bsky.social · 01/12/2024

Though the moon only rises once a day, the tide comes in twice per day. It’s an enigma that took over two thousand years to explain after ancient Greek scientists started wondering about it.

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Pixel Idiots @pixelidiots.bsky.social · 17/11/2024

Alone in the forest, you need to improvise.

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