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#First Ever #Photo of a #Snow #Leopard Under a #Starry #Sky
It takes a special kind of patience to search for a ghost. It is unlikely you will find one, but doubt means quitting, so you keep looking.

This is the art of tracking snow leopards. Morup Namgail learned it early. He was 5 when he first saw one in his remote home village of Uley in Ladakh, India. The area teems with wildlife – heaven for aspiring photographers like Morup and his brother Stanzin. These large cats, locally referred to as shan, were immortalised in the BBC series Planet Earth II thanks in large part to their father, Norboo, who tracked them for the crew.

Ladakh was just becoming famous for sightings – then the pandemic shut everything down. That is when the brothers vowed to photograph something no one had before: a snow leopard under a starry night sky. They hoped the image would highlight the beauty of this mountainous region and its apex predator, thereby spurring efforts to protect both. This is a place warming at double the global rate, threatening the landscape and its wildlife. If the outside world could only see what was at stake, the brothers believed it would influence the government to act.

They spent months blanketing the area with cameras. But halfway through the project, Stanzin died of a heart condition. Hard as it was, Morup pressed on alone … and succeeded.

Published 13th December 2023 by Adam Popescu – New Scientist
https://www.newscientist.com

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#JWST has made the "Crisis in #Cosmology" WORSE (AGAIN):

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=s2gFkKDMdXg

In this month’s Night #Sky #News we’re chatting about the Chandrayaan-3 mission to the South Pole of the Moon, evidence of wet-dry cycle of water on early Mars which gives the right conditions to form the molecules for life, and the latest evidence for JWST which has added fire to the “crisis in cosmology” (aka the Hubble Tension). Plus what you should look out for in the night sky in the next month.

00:00 Intro
00:55 15th September - New Moon + Milky Way!
01:46 16th September - Toenail Moon + Mars!
02:06 19th September - Neptune opposition!
02:52 How to spot Jupiter + Saturn into October!
03:58 Early Oct. Venus + Toenail Moon
04:35 BetterHelp Partnership
06:31 Chandrayaan-3 & Luna 25
12:07 Water cycles on early Mars!
18:15 JWST images Supernova 1987A
20:23 JWST deepens the "Crisis in Cosmology"
27:30 Conclusion
28:08 Bloopers

JWST has made the “Crisis in Cosmology” WORSE (AGAIN) | Night Sky News Sep 2023

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