Hubble captured this festive array of stars, Terzan 12, found in the Milky Way about 15,000 light-years from Earth. The stars in this cluster are bound together by gravity in a sphere-like shape and are shrouded in gas and dust. As the starlight travels through that gas and dust to Earth, blue light scatters, leaving the redder wavelengths to come through.
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Scattered pictures
Of the smiles we left behind...
Most of the time I have at least a few new pictures to post every week, but over the last year I've also posted old pictures on an almost daily basis. It's been a fun way for me to relive the many wonderful moments I've had with birds, squirrels, hares and deers over the last ten years or so. But now that I've done this for a full year my question to you is - should I stop or should I continue mixing up new pictures with pictures from years gone by? Even though I may already have posted the pictures at least twice. At the moment I'm not able to spend as much time in nature as I'd like to, which of course means I don't have that many new pictures to post. I know this is my blog and I can do whatever I want with it, but I still would like your input.
Thanks as always for taking part in my trek through (mostly) Swedish nature. Have a wonderful day!