The Detroit International Riverfront is a redeveloped waterfront in the US city of Detroit, supported by public and private investment totaling several hundred million dollars. Key public spaces include the riverwalk, the Dequindre Cut Greenway and Trail, William G. Milliken State Park and Harbor, and a cruise ship terminal at Hart Plaza. The riverfront hosts major events including the Detroit Electronic Music Festival, the Detroit Jazz Festival, and the Detroit–Windsor International Freedom Festival. The last dates to 1959 and was originally a joint-venture with the nearby city of Windsor, Ontario. Since 2007, it has been split into separate events, but Detroit’s fireworks show retains Canadian elements such as dual national anthems and a flag flown by helicopter. The Detroit International Riverfront was voted the best riverwalk in the United States by readers of USA Today in 2021, 2022 and 2023.
I’ve started taking a photography class and wanted to share a photo I took. This is one I took of a Hummingbird on the ground I found. I think the poor thing was dehydrated so me and my friend gave it some water and moved it to the shade while hoping it’d be fine.
Orion is rarely seen like this. To achieve this majestic vista, you need a camera capable of taking such long duration exposures that faint features in the night sky become revealed. Iconic nebulas that appear include the Orion Nebula, the Flame Nebula, and Barnard’s Loop. For contrast, it also helps to have a volcano on the foreground, in this case the Teide volcano on Tenerife on the Canary Islands of Spain. But if you want your Teide volcano snow-covered, you also need good timing – because that only happens, typically, for a few days each year. Good timing also includes waiting for Orion to appear just behind Teide, which occurred late last year after sunset. The featured image is the result of a series of images taken consecutively with the same camera from the same location.
"Excuse me, but I have some very important news: Summer has officially begun! 🌴 I’ve decided to kick off the season with my most sophisticated 'crossed-paw' pose. I’ll be spending the next few months right here by the water, looking majestic and waiting for someone to drop a piece of grilled chicken. It’s a full-time job, but I’m dedicated to the craft. 💅🐾 #dogsOfMastodon #dogsOfPixelFed #dog #milowthevizsla #summer#dogs #nature @HollyHawk @dogs @photography
The Aqueduct of Segovia is a Roman aqueduct located in Segovia, Spain. It is thought to have been constructed during the 1st century, and is one of the most significant and best-preserved ancient monuments on the Iberian Peninsula. The aqueduct is regarded as a symbol of Segovia and is present on the city’s coat of arms. This photograph, taken in 2009, shows the elevated section of the Aqueduct of Segovia passing through the Plaza del Azoguejo in the city centre.
It was built together with the coastal artillery Cenizas in order to protect the entrance to the Bay of Cartagena in the Mediterranean Sea. The construction took place between 1933 and 1936 following a project from 1926 during the dictatorship of Primo de Rivera. It’s a Spanish National Heritage Monument since 1985.
Old Faithful is a cone geyser in Yellowstone National Park in Wyoming, United States. It was named in 1870 during the Washburn–Langford–Doane Expedition and was the first geyser in the park to be named. It is a highly predictable geothermal feature, erupting on average every 92 minutes, with the period between eruptions ranging from as short as 35 minutes to as long as 120 minutes. The geyser and the nearby Old Faithful Inn are part of the Old Faithful Historic District. This photograph shows Old Faithful erupting in 2022.
No, Earth did not recently acquire six more moons! Today’s APOD is a combination of images following the Moon, Venus, and the Pleiades across a southern Sicilian sky as twilight turned to evening on April 19. From 2023 to 2029, the Pleiades’ and the Moon “visit” each other once per month due to the Pleiades’ location in the ecliptic plane. April 2026 saw the celestial alignment of their visit with Venus. About six stars in the Pleiades cluster (Messier 45) are typically visible with the unaided eye. Due to the cluster’s visibility across the world, there are many myths and legends across cultures associated with the Pleiades. The Haudenosaunee people of North America, for example, say that seven boys danced so enthusiastically that they lifted off into the sky. Astronomers recently found thousands more Pleiades members, showing that after thousands of years of gazing upon this cluster, there is yet more to learn about the Pleiades.
I’ve been working mostly in black and white street photography, where the frame often depends more on weight, shadow, and timing than on clean description.
Can you find the comet? Somewhere through this web of satellite trails is Comet C/2025 R3 (PanSTARRS), a bright visitor passing through the inner Solar System. Now, the orbiting satellites themselves only appear as streaks because of the long camera exposure, over 10 minutes in this case. On the contrary, to the eye, satellites appear as points that drift slowly across the night sky and shine by reflecting sunlight – primarily just after sunset and before sunrise. The featured image was taken just before sunrise two weeks ago from Bavaria, Germany. Presently, Comet R3 PanSTARRS is hard to see for even another reason – because it is so (angularly) close to the Sun. As the comet rounds the Sun, it will be best seen in coming weeks from southern hemispheree skies, although then it will be heading out to interstellar space and fading. If you haven’t yet found the comet, don’t despair; please take a closer look just above the image center.
Inveraray Castle is a Grade A listed country house near Inveraray in the county of Argyll, in western Scotland. It is located on the shore of Loch Fyne, Scotland’s longest sea loch. Designed in part by William Adam and Roger Morris, it was constructed from the 1740s and is one of the earliest Gothic Revival buildings. The current building replaced an earlier 15th-century castle at which King James V stayed in September 1533. The castle, the seat of the Duke of Argyll, chief of Clan Campbell, houses a collection of more than 1,300 pikes, muskets, swords and other weapons, and is open to visitors. This photograph shows the facade of Inveraray Castle in 2010.
This seaside sunset offered a surreal experience, captured in a sea and skyscape from the west coast of Sardinia, Italy, planet Earth. The Daliesque scene is a composition of sequential exposures made with a camera and long telephoto lens. The Sun is not melting, though. Its shifting and fluid appearance as it nears the horizon is caused as refraction along the line of sight changes and creates distorted images or mirages of the reddened solar disk. The changes in atmospheric refraction correspond to atmospheric layers with sharply different temperatures and densities. Another famous but fleeting effect of atmospheric refraction produced by a long sight-line to the setting (or rising) Sun is often called the green flash.
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