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ilovecharts: Which Nations Consume the Most Water?

Tue, 29 May 2012 17:51:33 -0300

Which Nations Consume the Most Water?

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Fri, 25 May 2012 15:47:59 -0300

(via Chinese idiom - Putting the Finishing Touch to the Picture...

Wed, 16 May 2012 12:35:28 -0300

(via Chinese idiom - Putting the Finishing Touch to the Picture of a Dragon — 画龙点睛 huà lóng diǎn jīng - Study More Chinese)

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Sun, 13 May 2012 07:12:13 -0300

Pingan rice terraces, 100 km north of Guilin (Publicado com...

Mon, 23 Apr 2012 08:00:48 -0300

Pingan rice terraces, 100 km north of Guilin (Publicado com o Instagram)

uraniaproject: Tarantula Nebula in the Large Magellanic Cloud...

Tue, 17 Apr 2012 18:42:23 -0300

uraniaproject:

Tarantula Nebula in the Large Magellanic Cloud (by Hubble Heritage)

Via Flickr:
Brash young stars vie for attention in this NASA Hubble Space Telescope image of a rowdy stellar nursery located in the heart of the Tarantula Nebula (also known as 30 Doradus). Early astronomers gave the nebula this descriptive nickname because its glowing, spindly filaments look like spider legs.

30 Doradus is the brightest “starburst” region visible in a neighboring galaxy, the Large Magellanic Cloud. No known star-forming region in our own galaxy is as large or as prolific as 30 Doradus. Fortunately, 30 Doradus can be seen clearly from Earth, and it is nearby enough for Hubble to resolve its individual stars. This allows astronomers the rare opportunity to study stellar evolution closely in the exotic, extragalactic context of a starburst.

The Hubble composite image comprises one of the largest mosaics ever assembled from Hubble photos, including observations taken by Hubble’s Wide Field Camera 3 and the Advanced Camera for Surveys. Hubble’s unparalleled eye for fine, intricate detail is composited with ground-based data that trace hydrogen gas (in red) and oxygen (in blue). These complementary observations of the Tarantula Nebula were taken with the European Southern Observatory’s 2.2-meter telescope in La Silla, Chile. NASA and the Space Telescope Science Institute are releasing this image to celebrate Hubble’s 22nd anniversary.

BigBlast_small.mov (by SDOmission2009)

Mon, 16 Apr 2012 21:12:04 -0300

BigBlast_small.mov (by SDOmission2009)

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Sun, 15 Apr 2012 08:26:29 -0300

Cinco Chinitas. Spazio Arte. Itapetininga. (Publicado com o...

Thu, 12 Apr 2012 13:06:38 -0300

Cinco Chinitas. Spazio Arte. Itapetininga. (Publicado com o Instagram)

Dr. Bouchard by Alex (Publicado com o Instagram)

Thu, 12 Apr 2012 12:55:08 -0300

Dr. Bouchard by Alex (Publicado com o Instagram)

skeptv: TEDx YALE- Priyamvada Natarajan- Unraveling the Dark...

Thu, 12 Apr 2012 12:50:00 -0300

skeptv:

TEDx YALE- Priyamvada Natarajan- Unraveling the Dark Side of the Universe

Priyamvada Natarajan, A Guggenheim fellow and professor of Astronomy and Physics at Yale, discusses how her research in cosmology, gravitational lensing, and black hole physics lends to an unraveling of the universe.

kateoplis: Are foreign investors colonizing Africa [again]? |...

Sun, 18 Mar 2012 17:37:06 -0300

kateoplis:

Are foreign investors colonizing Africa [again]? | Al Jazeera

Perpetual Ocean [1080p] (by djxatlanta)

Sat, 17 Mar 2012 15:42:19 -0300

Perpetual Ocean [1080p] (by djxatlanta)

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Tue, 13 Mar 2012 09:40:40 -0300

Tamara de Lempicka - Hollywood’s Deco Diva, documentary...

Mon, 12 Mar 2012 19:46:11 -0300

Tamara de Lempicka - Hollywood’s Deco Diva, documentary (by taitsitarot)

the-star-stuff: Spiral Galaxy Study Yields Super Sharp...

Mon, 12 Mar 2012 13:44:22 -0300

the-star-stuff:

Spiral Galaxy Study Yields Super Sharp Images

The galaxies represent three different classes of spiral shapes. Three of them — dubbed NGC 5247, NGC 4030 and NGC 2997 — are simply designated as spiral galaxies. One galaxy, NGC 1300, is a “barred spiral,” with two arms extending from a prominent central bar. Another, NGC 1232, is an “intermediate spiral,” lying somewhere between barred and unbarred galaxies. And NGC 4321 (also known as Messier 100) is a “grand spiral,” featuring several well-defined, tentacle-like spiral arms.

NGC 5247

Grand design barred spiral galaxy

60–70 million light-years from Earth

Constellation: Virgo

Messier 100 (NGC 4321)

Grand design spiral galaxy

55 million light-years from Earth

Constellation: Coma Berenices

NGC 1300

Barred spiral galaxy

65 million light-years from Earth

Constellation: Eridanus

NGC 4030

Spiral galaxy

75 million light-years from Earth

Constellation: Virgo

NGC 2997

Spiral galaxy

30 million light-years from Earth

Constellation: Antlia

NGC 1232

Intermediate spiral galaxy

65 million light-years from Earth

Constellation: Eridanus

Images: ESO/P. Grosbøl

E=mc² is wrong? - Sixty Symbols (by sixtysymbols)

Wed, 22 Feb 2012 18:26:00 -0400

E=mc² is wrong? - Sixty Symbols (by sixtysymbols)

"La noticia del día. Una mala conexión de fibra óptica entre una unidad de recepción de GPS y la..."

Wed, 22 Feb 2012 16:56:19 -0400

“La noticia del día. Una mala conexión de fibra óptica entre una unidad de recepción de GPS y la tarjeta de entrada/salida de un ordenador es el culpable de que los neutrinos parecieran superlumínicos en el experimento OPERA entre el CERN y Gran Sasso. El error se ha arreglado apretando a mano la conexión. ¡Madre mía! Los ríos de tinta que han corrido y tocando un conector los neutrinos vuelven a ser sublumínicos. ¡Qué error más tonto! El experimento que observó que los neutrinos muónicos llegaban 60 nanosegundos antes de tiempo (siendo más rápidos que la velocidad de la luz en el vacío) ha sufrido la ley de Murphy que afirma que lo que puede fallar, fallará. La mayoría de los físicos sabíamos que había un error y que tenía que ser un error sutil que solo los propios miembros de la colaboración OPERA podrían detectar. Nos lo ha contado Edwin Cartlidge, “BREAKING NEWS: Error Undoes Faster-Than-Light Neutrino Results,” Science Insider, 22 February 2012, que cita como fuente a físicos de la propia colaboración OPERA. No habrá confirmación oficial hasta que se ratifique de forma definitiva que este es el problema, pero cuando el río suena…”

- Via Francis (th)E mule Science’s News…

skepttv: Starbursts May Actually Destroy Globular Clusters A...

Tue, 21 Feb 2012 16:44:58 -0400

skepttv:

Starbursts May Actually Destroy Globular Clusters

A movie of two colliding galaxies based on new computer simulations from astronomers from the Max Planck Institute for Astrophysics. The simulations covers 3.3 billion years. The galaxies eventually merge, destroying many of the stellar clusters (visible here as dots) in the process. Credit: D. Kruijssen, MPA

scienceisbeauty: Extreme close up of human...

Fri, 17 Feb 2012 17:31:35 -0400

scienceisbeauty:

Extreme close up of human eye.

Source&credits: Your beautiful eyes by Suren Manvelyan from behance.