Filaments – Eskildoodle Photos and Feelings

Pins and Needles

While washing windows, I discovered these fine fungal filaments about the length of a straight pin on the front door. They were casting shadows like gnomons of a sundial. If they could be used as a timepiece, I suspect they would say that it is time to wash the door. #fungi #door #filaments #sundial

Active Sun

The Sun may seem like a bright, featureless blazing ball in the sky, but in specially filtered telescopes it shows an other-worldly host of huge features. Spots larger than Earth can be seen next to bright “plages” that reveal the magnetic fields that cause the spots to form. The brightest plages are massive magnetic explosionsContinue reading “Active Sun”