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Scottish Sun
23-06-2025
- Entertainment
- Scottish Sun
English lido with heated swimming pool and Full Moon swims reopens after £120k upgrade
Plus, the UK's best outdoor water parks and lidos to enjoy this summer DIVE IN English lido with heated swimming pool and Full Moon swims reopens after £120k upgrade Click to share on X/Twitter (Opens in new window) Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) DORSET'S only open-air pool is open after renovations with some unique swimming session in the heated lido. Shaftesbury Lido has reopened after three months of upgrades worth £120,000, they celebrated with a nighttime swim and have more to come. Sign up for Scottish Sun newsletter Sign up 5 Shaftesbury Lido welcomes swimmers for evening Full Moon events Credit: Shaftesbury Town Council 5 The Dorset lido is one of the oldest pools in the country Credit: Getty After closing on March 13, the heated lido reopened on June 7. One of the more unusual sessions is their Full Moon swims celebrating the Strawberry Moon, with swimmers enjoying a late evening dip. While there are no more evening events in the calendar, the town council website tells swimmers to "keep an eye out for our popular Full Moon Swims" - so there are more to come. The renovations of the lido were to improve the pool for users and bring it up to modern standards. The origins of the Lido go back 170 years to the mid-19th century, so it's no surprise it needed a little maintenance. In fact, Shaftesbury Lido is one of the oldest pools still operational in the country. The money for the upgrades was raised by the community, council, local businesses, along with a grant from Sport England. Part of the fundraising came from the Shaftesbury Lido Ice Championship Extravaganza (called SLICE). Lido manager Harriet Green told the Bournemouth Echo: "It's just been amazing, it's so lovely to have the community get behind us and for the council to believe in the pool." Shaftesbury Lido is now fully open for the summer season and along with the classic lane swim, the it also offers other sessions like aqua wellness, parent and toddler, adult lessons, and even naked swimming. New £4million lido to open in UK next year 5 The lido recently opened after three months of closure Credit: Shaftesbury Town Council 5 The lido is in the beautiful town of Shaftesbury Credit: Alamy It's suggested to book as the pool has capacity for just 20 swimmers. During the summer, the temperature of the pool remains at 29C. It then gets turned off during autumn and eventually cools down for winter. In 2023, the lido held its very first trial of cold water swim sessions where the water temperature falls below 15 degrees. During this time, the website suggests that cold water swimming beginners wear a wetsuit to avoid cold water shock. Plus, the beachfront lido that's free to use is to close ahead of major renovation. And the UK's best outdoor water parks and lidos to enjoy this summer.
The Irish Sun
23-06-2025
- Entertainment
- The Irish Sun
English lido with heated swimming pool and Full Moon swims reopens after £120k upgrade
DORSET'S only open-air pool is open after renovations with some unique swimming session in the heated lido. Shaftesbury Lido has reopened after three months of upgrades worth £120,000, they celebrated with a nighttime swim and have more to come. 5 Shaftesbury Lido welcomes swimmers for evening Full Moon events Credit: Shaftesbury Town Council 5 The Dorset lido is one of the oldest pools in the country Credit: Getty After closing on March 13, the heated lido reopened on June 7. One of the more unusual sessions is their Full Moon swims celebrating the Strawberry Moon, with swimmers enjoying a late evening dip. While there are no more evening events in the calendar, the town council website tells swimmers to "keep an eye out for our popular Full Moon Swims" - so there are more to come. The renovations of the lido were to improve the pool for users and bring it up to modern standards. Read More on UK Lidos The origins of the Lido go back 170 years to the mid-19th century, so it's no surprise it needed a little maintenance. In fact, Shaftesbury Lido is one of the oldest pools still operational in the country. The money for the upgrades was raised by the community, council, local businesses, along with a grant from Sport England. Part of the fundraising came from the Shaftesbury Lido Ice Championship Extravaganza (called SLICE) . Most read in News Travel Lido manager Harriet Green told the Shaftesbury Lido is now fully open for the summer season and along with the classic lane swim, the it also offers other sessions like aqua wellness, parent and toddler, adult lessons, and even naked swimming. New £4million lido to open in UK next year 5 The lido recently opened after three months of closure Credit: Shaftesbury Town Council 5 The lido is in the beautiful town of Shaftesbury Credit: Alamy It's suggested to book as the pool has capacity for just 20 swimmers. During the summer, the temperature of the pool remains at 29C. It then gets turned off during autumn and eventually cools down for winter. In 2023, the lido held its very first trial of cold water swim sessions where the water temperature falls below 15 degrees. During this time, the website suggests that cold water swimming beginners wear a wetsuit to avoid cold water shock. Plus, the And the 5 Aerial photo from a drone of Shaftesbury Lido in the county of Dorset, UK. Credit: Bookwhen
Yahoo
29-03-2025
- Science
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Webb telescope's new photo isn't just rare. It's psychedelic.
Space is phantasmagorical. Astronomers using the powerful James Webb Space Telescope to survey distant galaxies spotted an unusual, chance phenomenon called an "Einstein ring." It's not an actual object, but a warped, mind-bending optical illusion. "The picture features a rare cosmic phenomenon — an Einstein ring. What appears to be a single, strangely shaped galaxy is actually two galaxies far apart," the European Space Agency explained online. SEE ALSO: NASA dropped a new report. It's a wake-up call. The effect, created by "gravitational lensing" and theorized to exist by Albert Einstein over a century ago, occurs when the mass of a foreground galaxy warps space and time, like a bowling ball sitting on a mattress, causing light emanating from the galaxy located in near-perfect alignment beyond it (from Webb's view in the cosmos) to become warped. The closer galaxy, in effect, creates a lens. In the image below, the foreground object is a massive, egg-shaped elliptical galaxy, and in the background is a spiral galaxy (like the Milky Way) that appears wrapped around the elliptical galaxy. Amazingly, even though the spiral galaxy has been profoundly contorted, you can still see bright star clusters in the galaxy's stretched spiral arms. An Einstein ring recently captured by the James Webb Space Telescope. Credit: ESA / Webb / NASA / CSA / G. Mahler // Acknowledgement: M. A. McDonald Einstein rings created by gravitational lensing are not just cosmic eye candy. This ring was captured during the Strong Lensing and Cluster Evolution (SLICE) survey, which seeks to identify such distant galaxies that have been naturally magnified by massive foreground galaxies, or clusters of galaxies. "Objects like these are the ideal laboratory in which to research galaxies too faint and distant to otherwise see," ESA explained. It's a clever way to combine the capability of the most powerful space telescope ever built with the natural magnifying power of the universe. The Webb telescope — a scientific collaboration between NASA, ESA, and the Canadian Space Agency — is designed to peer into the deepest cosmos and reveal new insights about the early universe. It's also examining intriguing planets in our galaxy, along with the planets and moons in our solar system. Here's how Webb is achieving unparalleled feats, and may for years to come: - Giant mirror: Webb's mirror, which captures light, is over 21 feet across. That's over two-and-a-half times larger than the Hubble Space Telescope's mirror, meaning Webb has six times the light-collecting area. Capturing more light allows Webb to see more distant, ancient objects. The telescope is peering at stars and galaxies that formed over 13 billion years ago, just a few hundred million years after the Big Bang. "We're going to see the very first stars and galaxies that ever formed," Jean Creighton, an astronomer and the director of the Manfred Olson Planetarium at the University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee, told Mashable in 2021. - Infrared view: Unlike Hubble, which largely views light that's visible to us, Webb is primarily an infrared space telescope, meaning it views light in the infrared spectrum. This allows us to see far more of the universe. Infrared has longer wavelengths than visible light, so the light waves more efficiently slip through cosmic clouds; the light doesn't as often collide with and get scattered by these densely packed particles. Ultimately, Webb's infrared eyesight can penetrate places Hubble can't. "It lifts the veil," said Creighton. - Peering into distant exoplanets: The Webb telescope carries specialized equipment called spectrographs that will revolutionize our understanding of these far-off worlds. The instruments can decipher what molecules (such as water, carbon dioxide, and methane) exist in the atmospheres of distant exoplanets — be they gas giants or smaller rocky worlds. Webb looks at exoplanets in the Milky Way galaxy. Who knows what we'll find? "We might learn things we never thought about," Mercedes López-Morales, an exoplanet researcher and astrophysicist at the Center for Astrophysics-Harvard & Smithsonian, previously told Mashable. Featured Video For You How Did We Get Here: Into the Unknown
Yahoo
28-03-2025
- Science
- Yahoo
Latest Webb telescope image shows a cosmic phenomenon called an 'Einstein ring'
The latest image from NASA's James Webb Space Telescope, pictured above, also happens to be a stunning illustration of Einstein's theory of general relativity. So much so that the cosmic phenomenon is called an "Einstein ring." Einstein rings happen when light from one distant object is bent around the mass of another, slightly closer and even larger object. The effect is normally too subtle to observe up close on a local level, "but it sometimes becomes clearly observable when dealing with curvatures of light on enormous, astronomical scales," NASA writes. In the case of this image, when the light from one distant galaxy is warped around the mass of another. This "gravitational lensing," as it's technically called, is Einstein's general relativity in practice. Spacetime (the fusion of space and time that makes up the fabric of the universe) curving around an object's mass, with the curve itself being gravity. Objects like the ones pictured in the image — an elliptical galaxy wrapped in a spiral galaxy — are "the ideal laboratory in which to research galaxies too faint and distant to otherwise see." This Einstein ring was captured by the "Strong Lensing and Cluster Evolution (SLICE) survey" conducted at the University of Liège in Belgium. The survey is led by a team of astronomers looking "to trace eight billion years of galaxy cluster evolution," according to NASA.
Yahoo
20-02-2025
- Climate
- Yahoo
First competitive ice swimming event held in Dorset
DORSET'S first competitive ice swimming event attracted more than 100 participants. The Shaftesbury Lido Ice Championship Extravaganza (SLICE) took place at the Shaftesbury Lido over the weekend. Competitors came from across Dorset and as far as Stoke-on-Trent and Derby. The event was organised by Harriet Green, lido manager and Elizabeth Mills, both seasoned ice mile swimmers. Ice swimming involves swimming in temperatures of 5 degrees Celsius or below, with the lido's pool temperature recorded at 5.4 degrees Celsius. READ MORE: Bournemouth man to ride length of UK on a tall bike Dorset's first ice swimming event draws 100 competitors to Shaftesbury Lido (Image: Supplied) The air temperature was four degrees, with a wind chill factor making it feel like -1 degrees. Some participants were experiencing their first ice swimming event, while others were attempting their longest cold-water swims. The event featured a variety of races, including a one-length bobble hat race, a fun relay with an inflatable cake, a 16-length endurance race and a 1km SLICE team relay. Prizes for the winners were donated by Oly Rush, founder of Project Planet Earth and endurance swimmer. SEE MORE: New Forest beach shelters undergo major renovation works Swimmers brave 5.4°C water at Shaftesbury's first competitive ice swim (Image: Supplied) The SLICE Award was given to Liz Pudney from Newbury for her exceptional performance in multiple events. The event raised almost £3,000 for Shaftesbury Lido's renovations and improvements. The funds will be used to replace the pool liner and filtration system. Harriet and Elizabeth are already planning next year's SLICE event and continue to encourage people to swim in cold water for its health and wellbeing benefits.
