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Sad sights from the #SantaBarbaraOilSpill: image via Polly Mosendz @polly, 21 May 2015
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#California #oilspill 5x larger than 1st thought #climate #cdnpoli #bcpoli #defendthecoast: image via Mike Hudema, 21 May 2015
This is how oil breaks down in water after a disaster like the #SantaBarbaraOilSpill: image via Popular Mechanics @PopMech, 21 May 2015
Very small percentage of oil spilled in #RefugioOilSpill recovered by cleanup workers: image via Rachel Richardson @rquared, 21 May 2015
"As the sun rises, the environmental impacts of the oil spill. Dead fish" #refugiooilspill #sad v@Rae_Christensen: image via reported.ly, 21 May 2015
#SantaBarbaraOilSpill is 5X worse than originally thought, from 21,000 gal to now 105,000 gal>: image via Earthjustice @Earthjustice, 21 May 2015
Happened upon this seal struggling on the beach. We have called it in. #SantaBarbaraOilSpill: image via Bethany Mollenkof @FancyBethany, 21 May 2015
She is lying with her head on a rock. Heartbreaking. Reported to Fish and Wildlife. Waiting. #SantaBarbaraOilSpill: image via Javier Panzar @jpanzar, 21 May 2015
Sea lions normally run off w/ humans around, marine biologist tells me. This one looks too tired #SantaBarbaraOilSpill: image via Javier Panzar @jpanzar, 21 May 2015
105k gallons of oil spilled in #SantaBarbara. Devastating environmental damage to our coastline. Sad #RefugioOilSpill: image via iration @iration, 21 May 2015
Sad sights from the #SantaBarbaraOilSpill: image via Polly Mosendz @polly, 21 May 2015
Image of the supergiant star Betelgeuse obtained with the NACO adaptive optics instrument on ESO’s Very Large Telescope. The use of NACO combined with a so-called “lucky imaging” technique, allowed the astronomers to obtain the sharpest ever image of Betelgeuse, even with Earth’s turbulent, image-distorting atmosphere in the way. The resolution is as fine as 37 milliarcseconds, which is roughly the size of a tennis ball on the International Space Station (ISS), as seen from the ground. The image is based on data obtained in the near-infrared, through different filters. The field of view is about half an arcsecond wide, North is up, East is left: image by ESO / P. Kervella. 29 July 2009 (ESO)
Hot blue stars at the core of Globular Cluster M15: photo by NASA, 2006(NASA/HST)
Wild form, deep form, form out of the
Arabic night
God your conspicuous discrete
desert stars are trucks of light
on very distant highway 101's
over which
I am hitchhiking tonight
The waves feathering out in ink
beyond Obispo, toward Conception
toward Surf, a black like blue
jello out of Jules Verne's star-bowls
the world a crushed grape to
someone on Betelgeuse
Arabic night
God your conspicuous discrete
desert stars are trucks of light
on very distant highway 101's
over which
I am hitchhiking tonight
The waves feathering out in ink
beyond Obispo, toward Conception
toward Surf, a black like blue
jello out of Jules Verne's star-bowls
the world a crushed grape to
someone on Betelgeuse
TC: Pacific Melt, from Paradise Resisted, 1984
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Point Conception Lighthouse, Santa Barbara County, California: photo by Jv4nvc, 2009
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Oil spill off Santa Barbara coast. A pelican glides over oil-soaked kelp and oil sheen as a cleanup effort continues on the beaches in Santa Barbara County: photo by Brian van der Brug / Los Angeles Times, 20 May 2015
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Oil spill off Santa Barbara coast. An oil sheen is visible in a kelp forest offshore as the cleanup effort continues along the coast in Santa Barbara County: photo by Brian van der Brug / Los Angeles Times, 20 May 2015
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Oil spill off Santa Barbara coast. The oil spill fouls the waters and a kelp forest as a cleanup effort continues along the coast in Santa Barbara County: photo by Brian van der Brug / Los Angeles Times, 20 May 2015
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Oil spill off Santa Barbara coast. The oil spill fouls the waters and a kelp forest as a cleanup effort continues along the coast in Santa Barbara County: photo by Brian van der Brug / Los Angeles Times, 20 May 2015
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Oil spill off Santa Barbara coast. Point of origin where the oil pipeline ruptured.: photo by Al Seib / Los Angeles Times, 20 May 2015
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Oil spill off Santa Barbara coast. Point of origin where the oil pipeline ruptured.: photo by Al Seib / Los Angeles Times, 20 May 2015
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Oil spill off Santa Barbara coast. Oil spill cleanup. Oil-stained rocks at Refugio State Beach on Wednesday morning.: photo by Al Seib / Los Angeles Times, 20 May 2015
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Refugio State Beach. Oil-stained rocks at Refugio State Beach on Wednesday morning.: photo by Al Seib / Los Angeles Times, 20 May 2015
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Oil spill off Santa Barbara coast. Point of origin where the oil pipeline ruptured.: photo by Al Seib / Los Angeles Times, 20 May 2015
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Oil spill off Santa Barbara coast. Point of origin where the oil pipeline ruptured.: photo by Al Seib / Los Angeles Times, 20 May 2015
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Oil spill off Santa Barbara coast. Oil spill cleanup. Oil-stained rocks at Refugio State Beach on Wednesday morning.: photo by Al Seib / Los Angeles Times, 20 May 2015
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Refugio State Beach. Oil-stained rocks at Refugio State Beach on Wednesday morning.: photo by Al Seib / Los Angeles Times, 20 May 2015
This is the view from the beach where the oil spilled down into the ocean #SantaBarbara: image via Javier Panzar @jpanzar, 21 May 2015
#California #oilspill 5x larger than 1st thought #climate #cdnpoli #bcpoli #defendthecoast: image via Mike Hudema, 21 May 2015
#SantaBarbaraOilSpill: Dramatic Images -- via @ABC: image via Elissa Harrington @EHarringtonNews, 21 May 2015
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This is how oil breaks down in water after a disaster like the #SantaBarbaraOilSpill: image via Popular Mechanics @PopMech, 21 May 2015
Very small percentage of oil spilled in #RefugioOilSpill recovered by cleanup workers: image via Rachel Richardson @rquared, 21 May 2015
"As the sun rises, the environmental impacts of the oil spill. Dead fish" #refugiooilspill #sad v@Rae_Christensen: image via reported.ly, 21 May 2015
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#RefugioOilSpil Governor declares Emergency in pictures via @Telegraph Pic Lucy Nicholson: image via Telegraph Pictures @TelegraphPics, 21 May 2015
#SantaBarbaraOilSpill is 5X worse than originally thought, from 21,000 gal to now 105,000 gal>: image via Earthjustice @Earthjustice, 21 May 2015
Oiled seabird: Red-throated Loon? caught in #oilspill today near Santa Barbara: by Lara Cooper/Noozhawk.com: image via BirdRescue.org @IntBirdRescue, 19 May 2015
Happened upon this seal struggling on the beach. We have called it in. #SantaBarbaraOilSpill: image via Bethany Mollenkof @FancyBethany, 21 May 2015
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She is lying with her head on a rock. Heartbreaking. Reported to Fish and Wildlife. Waiting. #SantaBarbaraOilSpill: image via Javier Panzar @jpanzar, 21 May 2015
Sea lions normally run off w/ humans around, marine biologist tells me. This one looks too tired #SantaBarbaraOilSpill: image via Javier Panzar @jpanzar, 21 May 2015
105k gallons of oil spilled in #SantaBarbara. Devastating environmental damage to our coastline. Sad #RefugioOilSpill: image via iration @iration, 21 May 2015