Posted on May 11, 2021
APOD: 2021 May 11 - Lightning and Orion Beyond Uluru
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Good morning, Rallypoint. Today's Astronomy Picture of the Day (APOD) is titled "Lightning and Orion Beyond Uluru." The Uluru (aka Ayers Rock) is a large sandstone formation in the Northern Territory of Australia. Here we see the Uluru framed by a thunderstorm to the left and the constellation Orion overhead. Geologists call Uluru an inselberg, a prominent isolated residual knob or hill that rises abruptly from and is surrounded by extensive and relatively flat erosion lowlands in a hot, dry region. Uluru is composed of coarse-grained arkose (a sedimentary rock composed mostly of feldspar). Quartz and general rock fragments are abundant.
I enjoyed the sense of mystery surrounding the ancestral legend of Uluru from the Australian Department of the Environment, Water, Heritage and the Arts web site:
"The world was once a featureless place. None of the places we know existed until creator beings, in the forms of people, plants and animals, traveled widely across the land. Then, in a process of creation and destruction, they formed the landscape as we know it today. Aṉangu land is still inhabited by the spirits of dozens of these ancestral creator beings which are referred to as Tjukuritja or Waparitja."
I enjoyed the sense of mystery surrounding the ancestral legend of Uluru from the Australian Department of the Environment, Water, Heritage and the Arts web site:
"The world was once a featureless place. None of the places we know existed until creator beings, in the forms of people, plants and animals, traveled widely across the land. Then, in a process of creation and destruction, they formed the landscape as we know it today. Aṉangu land is still inhabited by the spirits of dozens of these ancestral creator beings which are referred to as Tjukuritja or Waparitja."
APOD: 2021 May 11 - Lightning and Orion Beyond Uluru
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Uluru - Ayers Rock Australia with song Dance Monkey by Tones and I 4K
Amazing Road Trip 2500 km from Darwin to Uluru - Kata Tjuta National Park.One of the last climbing to Uluru.
Thank you my friend Maj William W. 'Bill' Price for posting the NASA Astronomy Picture of the Day (APOD) for Tuesday, May 11, 2021 entitled "Lightning and Orion Beyond Uluru."
Image: Lightning and Orion Beyond Uluru - Image Credit & Copyright - Park Liu
APOD Background
"Explanation: What's happening behind Uluru? A United Nations World Heritage Site, Uluru is an extraordinary 350-meter high mountain in central Australia that rises sharply from nearly flat surroundings. Composed of sandstone, Uluru has slowly formed over the past 300 million years as softer rock eroded away. In the background of the featured image taken in mid-May, a raging thunderstorm is visible. Far behind both Uluru and the thunderstorm is a star-filled sky highlighted by the constellation of Orion. The Uluru region has been a home to humans for over 22,000 years. Local indigenous people have long noted that when the stars that compose the modern constellation of Orion first appear in the night sky, a hot season involving lightning storms will soon be arriving."
Uluru - Ayers Rock Australia with song Dance Monkey by Tones
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1uRI-aCloOo
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Image: Lightning and Orion Beyond Uluru - Image Credit & Copyright - Park Liu
APOD Background
"Explanation: What's happening behind Uluru? A United Nations World Heritage Site, Uluru is an extraordinary 350-meter high mountain in central Australia that rises sharply from nearly flat surroundings. Composed of sandstone, Uluru has slowly formed over the past 300 million years as softer rock eroded away. In the background of the featured image taken in mid-May, a raging thunderstorm is visible. Far behind both Uluru and the thunderstorm is a star-filled sky highlighted by the constellation of Orion. The Uluru region has been a home to humans for over 22,000 years. Local indigenous people have long noted that when the stars that compose the modern constellation of Orion first appear in the night sky, a hot season involving lightning storms will soon be arriving."
Uluru - Ayers Rock Australia with song Dance Monkey by Tones
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1uRI-aCloOo
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