Ocean's purification plant and night sky

Mussels play a super important role as the ocean's purification plant by filtering enormous amounts of water, combating eutrophication (nitrogen/phosphorus), creating habitats (biodiversity) and providing healthy food for people (protein, vitamins), making them a climate-smart and nutritious resource for a sustainable future in Sweden's aquatic environments and other aquatic environments.

Ecological roles Water purification: Mussels filter plankton and particles, purify the water and combat eutrophication by binding nutrients such as nitrogen and phosphorus. Habitat and biodiversity: Mussel beds serve as protection and substrate for many small animals, which increases biodiversity. Key species in the food web: They connect benthic life with free aquatic life, and some freshwater mussels use fish to disperse their larvae.

Some mussels washed up at the shore a clear night by the coast. Faint Aurora and airglow visible in the sky in this macro widefield photo.

 Potassium feldspar crystals are mainly created by slow crystallization from molten magma deep in the Earth's crust, where heat and pressure cause silicate minerals to arrange themselves into ordered structures as they cool, often in cracks and cavities in granite, or through weathering and transport of older rocks that are then reprecipitated from aqueous solutions. It is a natural geological process where the elements (potassium, aluminum, silicon, oxygen) slowly form the final crystal structure. How the process works: Magmatic Formation (Main): Melting & Ascent: Deep below the Earth's surface, rocks melt to form magma rich in silica, aluminum, and potassium. Slow Cooling: As the magma rises and cools very slowly under high pressure, the minerals have time to organize themselves into regular lattice structures. Crystallization: Potassium and aluminum ions bond with silicon and oxygen (SiO4 tetrahedra) in a specific monoclinic structure (like sanidine) to form feldspar. This process often produces large, well-shaped crystals in, for example, granite. Photo shows fluorescence of Feldspar once magma and almost looks like it during this condition.

Golden lichens and colorful moss in fluorescence, a macro view and in the north Aurora Borealis.

Caloplaca marina, the orange sea lichen, is a crustose, placodioid lichen. It has wide distribution, and can be found near the shore on rocks or walls.

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Late Iron Age - Malmby Grave field

The burial ground also has a so-called ship-set, which are stones placed in the shape of a ship. There are also some mounds, types of graves that were common during the Late Iron Age (550 AD – 1050 AD). At that time, the tradition of village burial grounds also ended and instead people from the same farm were buried in their own graves. Around Malmby there are also several such small farm or village burial grounds.

 

Recycling in the moonlit forest. A view from below, macro photo of Jelly rot in fluorescence. The main purpose of Phlebia tremellosa, also known as jelly rot, is to act as a wood-decay fungus that decomposes dead wood in forest ecosystems. It is a white rot fungus that breaks down wood, specifically lignin, and recycles nutrients back into the soil. It is not edible, but its decomposition role is essential for forest health and nutrient cycling.  itself #plantwave #astronomy #twanight #astrophotographer #nightsky #nightskyphotography #stargazing #macro #science #science #stars #macrophotography #moon #ecosystem #fungi #muschroom #biology #microbiology #fungiofinstagram #moonlight

 

Mineral fluorescens from stones of planet Earth, some geology of the planet. In the sky the bright planet Jupiter, a gas giant with no solid surface, and its geology is dominated by its composition of hydrogen and helium, with a small, dense core of rock and ice. The planet’s structure consists of a gaseous outer layer, a deep layer of liquid metallic hydrogen, and a potential rocky or metallic core. Weather phenomena like the Great Red Spot are a result of its powerful atmospheric dynamics, not surface geolog. #astronomy #twanight #astrophotographer #nightsky #nightskyphotography #stargazing #macro #science #stars #macrophotography #geology #minerals #jupiter #stones #fluorescence

 

Moss and lichen beside a singing lake

 A clear and cold night by a frozen lake. Macro photos of moss and lichen on a stone with the starry sky above with Perseus and Auriga visible. The frozen lake cracking and singing in the dark, lovely moment. These small moss and lichen are so important for the planets ecosystem, easy to forget. #stars #nightsky #ecosystem #moss #lichen #biology #macro #macrophotos #astronomy #starrysky #astrophotos #nature #sweden 

Beautiful night by the coast! Faint Aurora display with some pillars moving and bright planet Jupiter rising above the sea with the bright stars Castor and Pollux above. And the great constellation of Orion with the big Orion nebula also rising above the sea line. I also met a otter, swimming in the waves and mist, screaming at me in the dark. #astronomy #biology #aurora #nightsky #jupiter #orion #milkyway # starrysky #stargazing #ocean #rocks #astrophoto #sea #coast  #plejades #airglow

 

Glowing lichens by the coast and starry sky

The view over the ocean by the coast of planet Earth. A closer look at fluorescens lichens on the rock, lichens are so important for the ecosystem of the planet. In the sky glittering stars and the open cluster M45 Plejades, about 445 light-years away, containing over 1,000 stars, including the bright bluish-white stars that are its most prominent feature. #astronomy #astrophoto #nightsky #nightskyphotography #macro #macrophotography #science #biology #ecosystem #ocean #landscape #plejades #stars #starrysky #stargazing #fluorescent #lichen #twanight #art #artphoto #artphotography #prints #printsforsale #fluorescence