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The eggs laid by a flock of chickens a friend's daughter owns. The one in the center of the front row has a light bluegreen tinge...which I'd never seen. They were all quite beautiful. I will taste them soon, as well, but hate to break their varied but each beautiful shells.
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On February 3, 2010, thousands of young Palestinian men arrived at a police recruitment center in Gaza City. They each shared the same goal, to gain entry into the Hamas Police Academy.Photographs by Marco Longari / AFP / Getty
Pictures of the aftermath from Shaul Schwarz and Timothy Fadek, TIME's photographers on the groundWARNING: Some of the photographs that follow contain extremely graphic content
He doesn't dance like a Bollywood matinee idol, nor does he sing like one. But that could be why Irrfan Khan is the Indian actor most likely to achieve global fame
As Iran launches a small menagerie into orbit atop its first spacegoing rocket, TIME pays tribute to the unsung, furry pioneers who journeyed into space, paving the way for humankind.
(AFP/Getty Images) - The Boeing 747-8 freighter makes its first test flight at Paine Field in Everett, Washington. The 747-8 is the largest jumbo jet Boeing has built.(AFP/Getty Images/Stephen Brashear)
(AFP) - People walk through the snow-covered streets of Washington, DC. Hundreds of emergency crews are battling to clear snow-clogged roads and restore power to thousands of homes across the east coast before a new storm hits.(AFP/Jewel Samad)
(Reuters) - A Jeep Cherokee is seen stuck in a ditch along the historic Georgetown Pike just outside Washington, DC in Great Falls, Virginia February 8, 2010. Up to 32 inches (81 cm) of snow had fallen in suburban Washington in the biggest snowfall to hit the city in decades. REUTERS/Hyungwon Kang (UNITED STATES - Tags: ENVIRONMENT TRANSPORT)
(Reuters) - A resident clears snow from the rooftop of his home in Falls Church, Virginia February 8, 2010. The federal government announced it would remain closed on Monday and most schools planned to shut down as residents of the U.S. mid-Atlantic region struggled to dig out from a blizzard that dumped two feet (half a meter) of snow on the region.
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(Reuters) - Mitch (L) and Sam Zell of Falls Church, VA, play with a neighbor's Newfoundland named "Peanut" in deep snow near their home February 8, 2010. The Washington D.C. region is digging out from a major snowstorm that hit last weekend and brought the nation's capital to a standstill.
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(Reuters) - Cars drive in single file down the normally four lane-wide 18th Street NW in downtown Washington, February 8, 2010. The federal government announced it would remain closed on Monday and most schools planned to shut down as residents of the mid-Atlantic struggled to dig out from a blizzard that dumped two feet of snow on the region. REUTERS/Jason Reed (UNITED STATES - Tags: ENVIRONMENT)
(AFP) - The space shuttle Endeavour STS-130 lifts off from Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Florida. Endeavour and its crew of six astronauts blasted off and headed for the International Space Station to deliver a module dubbed Tranquility.(AFP/Bruce Weaver)
(AP) - One of three new-born endangered golden takin (budorcas taxicolor bedfordi) calfs is seen with an adult at the Zoo in Liberec, some 100 kms north of Prague, Czech Republic. Three males were born in January and joined the herd in their outside enlosure on Monday, Feb. 8, 2010. The golden takins' herd in Liberec is the only one kept in captivity besides those in China and Japan. (AP Photo/CTK, Radek Petrasek)
(AFP) - The National Monument in Washington, DC. Hundreds of emergency crews are battling to clear snow-clogged roads and restore power to thousands of homes across the east coast before a new storm hits.(AFP/Jewel Samad)
(AP) - A white tiger rests inside an enclosure at Beijing Zoo in Beijing, China, Monday, Feb. 8, 2010. There are fewer than 50 wild tigers left in China today, living in Yunnan, Tibet, Jilin and Helongjiang, according to Xie Yan, the China program director of the Wildlife Conservation Society. The organization is working with the Chinese government to help protect Amur tigers from poachers and develop new habits to their survival. (AP Photo/Vincent Thian)
(AP) - A white tiger rests inside an enclosure at Beijing Zoo in Beijing, China, Monday, Feb. 8, 2010. There are fewer than 50 wild tigers left in China today, living in Yunnan, Tibet, Jilin and Helongjiang, according to Xie Yan, the China program director of the Wildlife Conservation Society. The organization is working with the Chinese government to help protect Amur tigers from poachers and develop new habits to their survival. (AP Photo/Vincent Thian)
Ice Alaska 2007 small block competition. Some sculptures I am missing, but hope to update this album real soon. Some sculptures were damaged or destroyed before I got there! :( Enjoy.
(Reuters) - A man grooms a Toy Poodle dog during the 2010 FCI Chiba International Dog Show in Chiba, near Tokyo January 24, 2010. REUTERS/Kim Kyung-Hoon
(AP) - New Orleans Saints quarterback Drew Brees celebrates with his son Baylen and wife Brittany after winning the NFL Super Bowl XLIV football game against the Indianapolis Colts in Miami, Sunday, Feb. 7, 2010. The Saints won 31-17. after winning the NFL Super Bowl XLIV football game against the Indianapolis Colts in Miami, Sunday, Feb. 7, 2010. The Saints won 31-17. (AP Photo/Mark J. Terrill)
(AP) - New Orleans Saints quarterback Drew Brees (9) holds his son Baylen after the NFL Super Bowl XLIV football game against the Indianapolis Colts in Miami, Sunday, Feb. 7, 2010. The Saints won 31-17. (AP Photo/Eric Gay)
(Reuters) - New Orleans Saints quarterback Drew Brees holds his son Baylen Robert (L) after they defeated the Indianapolis Colts in the NFL's Super Bowl XLIV football game in Miami, Florida February 7, 2010. REUTERS/Hans Deryk (UNITED STATES)
(AP) - In this photo provided by Purina, Winnie, a Pomeranian, participates in the 17th annual Beggin' Pet Parade and 'Tail'gating Party with her owner Janet Aukamp Sunday, Feb. 7, 2010, in St. Louis. Thousands of costumed pets and their owners came out to celebrate one of the largest pet parades in the world. (AP Photo/Purina, Whitney Curtis) NO SALES
(AP) - New Orleans Saints fan Charles Mitchell, of Lake Charles, La., adjusts his large hairpiece before the NFL Super Bowl XLIV football game against the Indianapolis Colts in Miami, Sunday, Feb. 7, 2010. (AP Photo/Julie Jacobson)
(AP) - Mark Jordan digs out of snow on Capitol Hill that was left from an intense winter blizzard that hit the nation's capital and much of the Mid Atlantic region yesterday, Sunday, Feb. 7, 2010. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)
(AP) - Steve Sawyer and Edie Folkes shovel the snow from their driveway along a street in Arlington, Va., in the metropolitan Washington area Sunday, Feb. 7, 2010. (AP Photo/Cliff Owen)
(AP) - The sun rises over parked cars buried under more than two-feet of snow in the Belle Haven neighborhood in the Washington metropolian area of Alexandria, Va., Sunday, Feb. 7, 2010. (AP Photo/Cliff Owen)
(AP) - Former vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin addresses attendees at the National Tea Party Convention in Nashville, Saturday, Feb. 6, 2010. (AP Photo/Ed Reinke)
(AP) - The Marine Corp Memorial of Iwo Jima is juxtaposed against the Washington Monument under morning sun in Arlington, Va., Sunday, Feb. 7, 2010, after a blizzard. Residents of the U.S. capital and nearby states are faced Sunday with the prospect of digging out of more than two feet (60 centimeters) of snow in some areas. (AP Photo/Cliff Owen)
(AFP) - A person in a penguin suit wearing an advertising board walks on Conneticut Ave in Washington, DC. Residents of the US east coast began digging out from under a thick blanket of snow Sunday after a record-breaking blizzard paralyzed Washington and the region, snapping power to 350,000 residents and killing two people.(AFP/Mandel Ngan)
The rich and wonderful costumes,the masks, the enchantment of the city, the sunny days (this year), confer to the carnival of Venice a magical atmosphere.
(AP) - The on ramp for Interstate 95 is desolate as a steady snow falls during a winter storm in Baltimore, Saturday, Feb. 6, 2010. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)
(AP) - 'Rocket' wears a dog coat and snow booties during a morning walk in the falling snow in Washington, Saturday, Feb. 6, 2010. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)
(Reuters) - Snow falls on the grounds of the U.S. Capitol as a blizzard blankets Washington, February 6, 2010. A blizzard producing heavy snow and powerful winds pummeled the U.S. mid-Atlantic on Saturday, causing at least two fatalities and paralyzing travel in the region. REUTERS/Jonathan Ernst (UNITED STATES - Tags: ENVIRONMENT IMAGES OF THE DAY)
(AFP/File) - File photo of Victoria's Secret model Miranda Kerr who has backed a growing campaign to save the job of a banker caught viewing risque shots of her on live TV, in footage that has caused an Internet sensation.(AFP/File/Timothy A. Clary)
(AP) - FILE - This undated photo provided by the U.S. Geological Survey shows a mountain-dwelling American pika. The American pika, a small mountain-dwelling mammal in the West that can't tolerate the heat could become the first animal in the continental United States to get federal protections primarily because of climate change. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service is expected to announce Friday Feb. 5, 2010 whether the American pika will be protected under the Endangered Species Act. (AP Photo/US Geological Survey, File)
(Reuters) - Jabari, an eight-week-old male reticulated giraffe from Six Flags Discovery Kingdom in Vallejo, California, picks the New Orleans Saints to win Super Bowl XLIV February 3, 2010. “Jabari” was the winning name in a giraffe naming contest held recently and is the same moniker as Saints' cornerback, Jabari Greer. REUTERS/Nancy Chan-Six Flags Discovery Kingdom/Handout (UNITED STATES - Tags: SOCIETY SPORT FOOTBALL ANIMALS) FOR EDITORIAL USE ONLY. NOT FOR SALE FOR MARKETING OR ADVERTISING CAMPAIGNS
(AP) - In this product image provided by H.J. Heinz Co., the new Dip & Squeeze Heinz Tomato Ketchup package is shown. The new design has a base that's more like a cup for dipping and also a tear-off end for squeezing, plus it holds three times as much ketchup than a traditional packet.(AP Photo/H.J. Heinz Co.)
(AP) - /The Velozzi Supercar - 770 HP electric motor able to accelerate from 0-60mph in only 3 seconds, with a top speed of over 200 mph. (GLOBE NEWSWIRE)/
(AP) - Technicians work in the cockpit of the first Boeing 787 with the interior installed at the production plant in Everett, Wash., Wednesday, Feb. 3, 2010. The plane, the third 787 to be built, is among six planes Boeing is using in its flight test program this year. Boeing designers and marketers are betting that a lot of subtle changes in the interior of the new jetliner will add up to strong passenger demand to be aboard the plane. (AP Photo/Elaine Thompson)
(Reuters) - A baby gibbon sits on a swing in its enclosure in Vienna's Schoenbrunn zoo, in this photograph released by the zoo on February 3, 2010. The gibbon, born on September 23, 2009, has yet to be sexed and named. Picture taken January 4, 2010. REUTERS/Vienna Zoo/Norbert Potensky/Handout (AUSTRIA - Tags: ANIMALS IMAGES OF THE DAY) FOR EDITORIAL USE ONLY. NOT FOR SALE FOR MARKETING OR ADVERTISING CAMPAIGNS
(AP) - File- In this Aug. 27, 2007 file photo, Mei Lan, the only giant panda cub to be born in a U. S. zoo in 2006 is shown at Zoo Atlanta in Atlanta, Ga. Chinese zookeepers are advertising for a tutor to teach Chinese to the American-born giant panda arriving this week in her parents' homeland. The language lessons, a special diet and even blind dates are also part of the red-carpet welcome being rolled out for 3-year-old Mei Lan, or Beautiful Orchid, by Chinese caretakers ahead of her arrival Friday, Feb. 5, 2010. (AP Photo/Gene Blythe, File)
(AP) - This image provided by NASA Tuesday Feb. 2, 2010 shows a mystery object that was discovered on Jan. 6, 2010, by the Lincoln Near-Earth Asteroid Research (LINEAR) sky survey. The object appears so unusual in ground-based telescopic images that discretionary time on NASA's Hubble Space Telescope was used to take this close-up look. The observations show a bizarre X-pattern of filamentary structures near the point-like nucleus of the object and trailing streamers of dust. This complex structure suggests the object is not a comet but instead the product of a head-on collision between two asteroids traveling five times faster than a rifle bullet. Astronomers have long thought that the asteroid belt is being ground down through collisions, but such a smashup has never before been seen. (AP Photo/NASA)
(AP) - This photo released by Melanie Typaldos shows Caplin her pet capybara and her daughters pet guinea pig Neptune. The capybara, Hydrochoerus Hydrochaeris, is a semi-aquatic rodent of South America. It weighs about a hundred pounds, and is about 2 feet tall at the shoulder.(AP Photo/Courtesy Melanie Typaldpos)
(AP) - This photo released by Melanie Typaldos shows Typaldos and Caplin her pet capybara wearing his Halloween custome. The capybara, Hydrochoerus Hydrochaeris, is a semi-aquatic rodent of South America. It weighs about a hundred pounds, and is about 2 feet tall at the shoulder.(AP Photo/Courtesy Melanie Typaldpos)
(AP) - This photo released by Melanie Typaldos shows Caplin her pet capybara. The capybara, Hydrochoerus Hydrochaeris, is a semi-aquatic rodent of South America. It weighs about a hundred pounds, and is about 2 feet tall at the shoulder.(AP Photo/Courtesy Melanie Typaldpos)
(AP) - This photo released by Car Crazy Desks shows a Corvette desk top. All Desks have working Lights with three way dimming, high quality tail light lenses, thick glass top available with an etched name plate, exhaust pipes, hand made billet aluminum engraved knobs, high grade solid wood construction available in multiple woods and finishes.(AP Photo/Car Crazy Desks)
(AP) - FILE - In this July 23, 2007 file photo, Oscar, a hospice cat with an uncanny knack for predicting when nursing home patients are going to die, sits outside a patient's room at the Steere House Nursing and Rehabilitation Center in Providence, R.I. Dr. David Dosa profiles Oscar in a book released this week, 'Making Rounds With Oscar: The Extraordinary Gift of an Ordinary Cat.' (AP Photo/Stew Milne, File)
(AP) - Multnomah Falls is shown Monday, Jan. 25, 2010, in Multnomah Falls, Ore., 30 miles east of Portland, along the Historic Columbia River Highway. Multnomah Falls is the tallest waterfall in the State of Oregon. The highway is a winding road amidst lush green trees and cascading waterfalls, overlooks that provide views of the Columbia River. The highway is an approximately 75-miles and was built through the Columbia River Gorge between 1913 and 1922. (AP Photo/Rick Bowmer) PART OF A STAND ALONE PHOTO PACKAGE MADE ALONG THE HISTORIC COLUMBIA RIVER HIGHWAY
(AP) - This Sunday, Jan. 24, 2010 booking photo provided by the Utah County jail shows Gary Coleman. Coleman, 41, was arrested in Utah Sunday on a warrant for failing to appear in court, police said. (AP Photo/Utah County jail)
(Reuters) - Gorilla baby Kajolu sits in its enclosure at Munich's zoo Hellabrunn January 22, 2010. Kajolu was born on December 7, 2009 at the zoo. REUTERS/Michael Dalder (GERMANY - Tags: ANIMALS)
Martian landforms have been shaped by winds, water, lava flow, seasonal icing and other forces over millennia. This view shows color variations in bright layered deposits on a plateau near Juventae Chasma in the Valles Marineris region of Mars. A brown mantle covers portions of the bright deposits. Researchers have found that these bright layered deposits contain opaline silica and iron sulfates.
This TerraSAR-X image shows a thunderstorm cell with unusually heavy rainfall off the Caribbean coast of Panama, visible across in the upper half of this image as a blurred area. The scene recorded here extends over an area of about 18 by 64 kilometres and was generated in dual-polarisation mode, a method that substantially increases the information content of an image.
The colours are created by superimposing two separate images (red and green) of the same area taken simultaneously in this mode using two signals having different polarisation settings, together with a third image (blue) which is calculated from the difference between the original images. Now, the different reflection mechanisms become visible – the green colouration indicates a surface reflection, where the radar signal is being reflected straight back to the antenna. Red tones indicate a double reflection, and there is virtually no indication of this in the scene depicted here, since it occurs primarily in urban areas. Blue tones can be seen in the area of the thunderstorm cell, and are designated as ‘volume scatter’ because the signal is reflected back to the radar antenna by a multiplicity of individual raindrops and hailstones.
What lights up the Flame Nebula? Fifteen hundred light years away towards the constellation of Orion lies a nebula which, from its glow and dark dust lanes, appears, on the left, like a billowing fire. But fire, the rapid acquisition of oxygen, is not what makes this Flame glow. Rather the bright star Alnitak, the easternmost star in the Belt of Orion visible just above the nebula, shines energetic light into the Flame that knocks electrons away from the great clouds of hydrogen gas that reside there. Much of the glow results when the electrons and ionized hydrogen recombine. The above false-color picture of the Flame Nebula (NGC 2024) was taken in infraredlight, where a young star cluster becomes visible. The Flame Nebula is part of the Orion Molecular Cloud Complex, a star-forming region that includes the famous Horsehead Nebula, visible above on the far right.
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This infrared snapshot of a region in the constellation Carina near the Milky Way was taken shortly after NASA’s Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE) ejected its cover. The “first-light” picture shows thousands of stars and covers an area three times the size of the moon. WISE will take more than a million similar pictures covering the whole sky.
The image was captured as the spacecraft stared in a fixed direction, in order to help calibrate its pointing system. The mission’s survey will be done while the satellite continuously scans the sky, and an internal scan mirror counteracts the motion to create freeze-frame images. The team is working now to match the motions of the spacecraft and the scan mirror precisely.
This eight-second exposure shows infrared light from three of WISE’s four wavelength bands: Blue, green and red correspond to 3.4, 4.6, and 12 microns, respectively.
This false-color subimage shows the north polar layered deposits at top and darker materials at bottom exposed in a scarp at the head of Chasma Boreale, a large canyon eroded into the layered deposits.
The polar layered deposits appear red because of dust mixed within them, but are ice-rich as indicated by previous observations. The water ice in the layered deposits is probably responsible for the pattern of fractures seen near the top of the scarp.
The darker material below the layered deposits may have been deposited as sand dunes, as indicated by the cross-bedding (truncation of curved lines) seen near the middle of the scarp. It appears that brighter, ice-rich layers were deposited between the dark dunes in places.
Exposures such as these are useful in understanding the recent climate variations that are likely recorded in the polar layered deposits.
Aptly-named Mojave Crater in the Xanthe Terra region has alluvial fans that look remarkably similar to landforms in the Mojave Desert of southeastern California and portions of Nevada and Arizona.
Alluvial fans are fan-shaped deposits of water-transported material (alluvium). They typically form at the base of hills or mountains where there is a marked break, or flattening of slope.
They typically deposit big rocks near their mouths (close to the mountains) and smaller rocks at greater distances. Alluvial fans form as a result of heavy desert downpours, typically thundershowers. Because deserts are poorly vegetated, heavy and short-lived downpours create a great deal of erosion and nearby deposition.
There are fans inside and around the outsides of Mojave crater on Mars that perfectly match the morphology of alluvial fans on Earth, with the exception of a few small impact craters dotting this Martian landscape.
Channels begin at the apex of topographic ridges, consistent with precipitation as the source of water, rather than groundwater. This remarkable landscape was first discovered from Mars Orbital Camera images. Mars researchers have suggested that impact-induced atmospheric precipitation may have created these unique landscapes.
This HiRISE image at up to 29 cm/pixel scale supports the alluvial fan interpretation, in particular by showing that the sizes of the largest rocks decrease away from the mouths of the fans.
ESA and the SPIRE & PACS consortia, Ph. André (CEA Saclay) for the Gould’s Belt Key Programme Consortia
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A previously unseen stellar nursery comes into view in this Herschel image. Seven hundred newly forming stars are estimated to be crowded into these colourful filaments of dust. The complex is part of a mysterious ring of stars called Gould’s Belt.
This image shows a dark cloud located 1000 light years away in the constellation Aquila, the Eagle. It covers an area 65 light years across and is so shrouded in dust that no previous infrared satellite has been able to see into it. Now thanks to Herschel’s superior sensitivity at the longest wavelengths of infrared, astronomers have their first picture of the interior of this cloud.
It was taken on 24 October 2009 using two of Herschel’s instruments: the Photodetector Array Camera and Spectrometer (PACS) and the Spectral and Photometric Imaging Receiver (SPIRE). The two bright regions are areas where large newborn stars are causing hydrogen gas to shine.
Embedded within the dusty filaments are 700 condensations of dust and gas that will eventually become stars. Astronomers estimate that about 100 of these are protostars, celestial objects in the final stages of formation. Each one just needs to ignite nuclear fusion in its core to become a true star. The other 600 objects are insufficiently developed to be considered protostars, but these too will eventually become another generation of stars.
This cloud is part of Gould’s Belt, a giant ring of stars that circles the night sky because the solar system just happens to lie near the centre of the belt. For more than a hundred years, astronomers have puzzled over the origin of this ring, which is tilted to the Milky Way by 20 degrees. The first to notice this unexpected alignment, in the mid-nineteenth century, was England’s John Herschel, the son of William, after whom ESA’s Herschel telescope is named. But it was Boston-born Benjamin Gould who brought the ring to wider attention in 1874; hence its name.
Gould’s Belt supplies bright stars to many constellations such as Orion, Scorpius and Crux, and conveniently provides nearby star-forming locations for astronomers to study. Observing these stellar nurseries is a key programme for Herschel, which aims to uncover the demographics of star formation and its origin. In other words, the quantities of stars that can form and the range of masses that such newborn stars can possess. As well as this region of Aquila, Herschel will target fourteen other star-forming regions as part of the Gould’s Belt Key Programme.
Posted in Deep Space, Space Fotos Tagged: CEA Saclay, constellation Aquila, ESA, Gould's Belt, Gould’s Belt Key Programme Consortia, Herschel Space Observatory, Ph. André, SPIRE & PACS consortia
Big, beautiful spiral galaxy M101 is one of the last entries in Charles Messier’s famous catalog, but definitely not one of the least. About 170,000 light-years across, this galaxy is enormous, almost twice the size of our own Milky Way Galaxy. M101 was also one of the original spiral nebulae observed by Lord Rosse’s large 19th century telescope, the Leviathan of Parsontown. Recorded at infrared wavelengths by the Spitzer Space telescope, this 21st century view shows starlight in blue hues while the galaxy’s dust clouds are in red. Examining the dust features in the outer rim of the galaxy, astronomers have found that organic molecules present throughout the rest of M101 are lacking. The organic molecules tracked by Spitzer’s instruments are called polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs). Of course, PAHs are common components of dust in the Milky Way and on planet Earth are found in soot. PAHs are likely destroyed near the outer edges of M101 by energetic radiation in intense star forming regions. Also known as the Pinwheel Galaxy, M101 lies within the boundaries of the northern constellation Ursa Major, about 25 million light-years away.
Posted in Deep Space, Space Fotos Tagged: Charles Messier, Constellation Ursa Major, JPL-Caltech, K. Gordon, Lord Rosse, M101, NASA, Pinwheel Galaxy, Spiral Nebulae, Spitzer Space Telescope, STScI
Dust makes this cosmic eye look red. The eerie Spitzer Space Telescope image shows infrared radiation from the well-studied Helix Nebula (NGC 7293) a mere 700 light-years away in the constellation Aquarius. The two light-year diameter shroud of dust and gas around a central white dwarf has long been considered an excellent example of a planetary nebula, representing the final stages in the evolution of a sun-like star. But the Spitzer data show the nebula’s central star itself is immersed in a surprisingly bright infrared glow. Models suggest the glow is produced by a dust debris disk. Even though the nebular material was ejected from the star many thousands of years ago, the close-in dust could be generated by collisions in a reservoir of objects analogous to our own solar system’s Kuiper Belt or cometary Oort cloud. Formed in the distant planetary system, the comet-like bodies would have otherwise survived even the dramatic late stages of the star’s evolution.
Posted in Deep Space, Space Fotos Tagged: Helix Nebula, JPL-Caltech, Kate Su, NASA, NGC 7293, Spitzer Space Telescope, Steward Observatory, University of Arizona
The 51st entry in Charles Messier’s famous catalog is perhaps the original spiral nebula – a large galaxy with a well defined spiral structure also cataloged as NGC 5194. Over 60,000 light-years across, M51’s spiral arms and dust lanes clearly sweep in front of its companion galaxy (right), NGC 5195. Image data from the Hubble’s Advanced Camera for Surveys has been reprocessed to produce this alternative portrait of the well-known interacting galaxy pair. The processing has further sharpened details and enhanced color and contrast in otherwise faint areas, bringing out dust lanes and extended streams that cross the small companion, along with features in the surroundings and core of M51 itself. The pair are about 31 million light-years distant. Not far on the sky from the handle of the Big Dipper, they officially lie within the boundaries of the small constellation Canes Venatici.
Posted in Deep Space, Space Fotos Tagged: Constellation Canes Venatici, ESA, Hubble Heritage (STScI/AURA)-ESA/Hubble Collaboration, M51, NASA, NGC 5195, Robert Gendler., S. Beckwith, Spiral Nebula, STScI
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(You Witness User Photo) - SeaWorld animal trainers in Orlando have their hands full with four baby Asian small-clawed otters, seen March 30, 2009. (Photo and caption submitted by Jason Collier/SeaWorld Orlando)
While freedom is a wonderful thing, sometimes the constraints of a medium or the circumstances in which work is created can serve as the springboard to something remarkable. Just think of Michaelangelo's frescos in the Sistine Chapel, one of the most demanding of media. While he had no choice but to work quickly on a large scale before the pigment-impregnated plaster dried, a contemporary French artist has chosen to paint tiny portraits within the space of a few minutes... on Paris subway tickets.
So you've been ogling the 3D capabilities of Photoshop CS3 Extended but there's no sign of an upgrade? In fact, you may be watching the 3D train leave the station with that helpless feeling of once again falling behind. You know you could extend the scope of the graphics and documents you're currently creating by adding 3D content. But how? The good news is that the cross-platform DAZ Studio provides a simple, free way to begin incorporating 3D into your Photoshop workflow.
The release of Adobe's new Media Player has made quite a splash this week but those in the creative community using the firm's design tools have received an extra treat, in the form of the simultaneously-launched Adobe TV site.
While not yet announced, the FontStruct site, created by noted font vendor FontShop, is already attracting attention from those eager to try out its font-creation capabilities, as well as download fonts from the galleries.
Marion Bataille is a French illustrator who has provided the imagery both for her own books and those of others, including a volume of Surrealist poetry geared to younger readers. The clip above shows her latest book, ABC3D, in action, with video being the perfect medium to demonstrate the kinetic apects of her inventive pop-up alphabet.
If you need to display digital content in such a way that it just can't be overlooked, the traditional approach is to move to bigger and bigger displays. But once you've covered every wall with screens, things start to get a little banal. What's needed is the ability to let content escape the confines of the screen and inhabit the three-dimensional space of the viewer. A novel approach to this is provided by the PufferSphere, from Scottish firm Pufferfish.
Most publishers of art and design books don't extend their relationship with their authors beyond distributing the books and sending the occasional royalty check. But one German publisher is showing that more is possible to bring creative projects to the attention of a wider audience via inhouse-created video.
A fixation on light and electricity has moved British Artist, Richard Box, to create some mesmerizing installation art pieces which he has had documented by various photographers on his Website.
The focus on Box's Site right now is is a series which illustrates an installation whereby Box erected more than a thousand fluorescent tubes by planting them in the ground beneath a large electrical pylon. The photographs show the the lights illuminated only by the magnetic field being generated by the pylon and overhead electricity cables.
Let's face it, the applications in Adobe's Creative Suite are not always employed for work that most of us would care to define as "creative." But Adobe couldn't really call it the Ugly Banners For My Company Suite or the Painfully Dull Marketing Flyer Suite, now could it? No, if you use Adobe's Suite, the pixie dust of creativity will simply alight magically on your work and if not... well, I guess you just weren't that creative in the first place.
"The Bubblegum Sequencer is a physical step sequencer that lets you create drumloops by arranging colored balls on a tangible surface. It generates MIDI events and can be used as an input device to control audio hardware and software. Finally, people can't claim anymore that electronic music isn't handmade."
Okay the name is annoying—we're long past the point where any new product or technology should have a lower-case letter i slapped in front of it—but once you get past that, iPaper provides an interesting approach to displaying documents on the web. Whether it's PDF, Word, PowerPoint or other formats, this is yet another example of Adobe Flash contining its relentless march unabated, swallowing all media types in its path.
While here in the West we think of some chefs as artists, access to the rarefied dishes they create remains restricted to the happy few. But why shouldn't more of what's on our plate be consciously designed? As is often the case, the Japanese are way ahead of us aesthetically, having created centuries ago the practice of eating cold dishes from compartmentalized boxes, known as bento.
Has the domination of Photoshop completely killed vector illustration? While Illustrator remains a graphics application that's difficult to love, the use of vector-based imagery has been making something of a comeback. Fueling this are a number of boutique content creators, amongst them Kapitza.
