Amethyst Geode

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Allophane

Locality: Cala Mine, Huelva, Andalusia, Spain

Better late than never!

This week’s comic: Rogue Planets

http://phenomena.nationalgeographic.com/2014/03/13/a-guide-to-lonely-planets-in-the-galaxy/

http://www.space.com/11699-rogue-alien-planets-milky-common.html

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pAsACBDi_sk

The dagger that belonged to Pharaoh Tutankhamun has a curious extraterrestrial composition.

King Tut –who ruled over the land of the Pharaohs – continues to amaze the archeological community. Researchers concluded that the iron sheet of the dagger that once belonged to the ‘Boy’ Pharaoh was made from a material that belonged to a meteorite. The scientific study was led by Italian-Egyptian researchers who used X-ray fluorescence to analyze the dagger which dates back to the XIV century BCE.

The mystery behind one of the two daggers found beside the mummy of the Pharaoh is now solved, it originated in space, or better said, the sheet that makes up the dagger was fabricated from materials found in meteorites (source)

Flying Across The Universe Part 3 (From Top to Bottom: Fly through the Orion Nebula, Gum 29, and Sharpless 2-106)

(Part 1, Part 2)

Credit: HubbleSite.org

Evening run to the top of grotto. 3hrs up and down, 1300m elevation gain :)

Auroras on Jupiter [NASA/ESA Hubble]

The Carina nebula, captured from Australia’s Siding Spring observatory