WHEN: Yesterday, today...every day!
WHERE: Within a 46.5 billion light year radius...and expanding!
No, I am not uploading pictures daily now. As illustrated by my chronic tardiness with posting my picture of the week, I can't even maintain a 7-day cycle. However, there are people and organizations who CAN maintain new and exciting daily photo uploads, who have multiple skilled photographers, and who make money by providing these pictures. Therefore, I am making them do the dirty work and sprucing up my blog with their amazing photography. I have included some organization's "Picture of the Day" (POD) websites below and also provided a photo link to them on my Jesse's POW page.
The first one, though not really a bonafide POD website, is Bing.com. I have used Bing as the homepage for our computers for the past year and enjoyed their daily-updated background pictures from all over the world. A complete list of their previous daily backgrounds can be found here.
The next POD website I've included is that of National Geographic. I was particularly impressed with a picture (see below) appearing this month, on May 17. Though it appears like it is a painting at first glance (and perhaps the second and third glances), it is in fact an actual picture taken of camel thorn trees in Namibia, Africa; with a large red dune in the background exposed to the early morning sun.
The picture that's NOT a painting
Next on the list is a website with pictures that are out of this world - literally! NASA's "Astronomy Picture of the Day" website includes daily pictures of celestial bodies across the known universe, back to June 1995. It also includes descriptions below each picture for the layperson, which 99.9% of us are when it comes to astronomy! With the latest technology, astronomers can now see 46.5 billion light years (that's 273 million trillion miles) away from Earth in any direction - what's known as the "visible universe". And if that is an unfathomable amount of miles to comprehend, the number for how many stars are estimated to exist within that same amount of space is even more (over 3,500 times more)! Many of these pictures put in to perspective (in a very illustrative and tangible way) just how small we (and the Earth) are and how big GOD is; to have created something so vast and yet still hold in the palm of His hand! He placed (spoke) the 1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000+ stars in to the sky and He knows them each by name! The pictures really give meaning to the song, "God of Wonders Beyond Our Galaxy"!
A glimpse in to the sky - like you've never seen before!
If you're looking for new PODs or POWs here, consistency and frequency will not be upheld to the same degree, unfortunately. I have just now got the past 3 weeks of POWs up (below). Now you can enjoy even better pictures, from three places, on a daily basis, with the websites mentioned above!
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