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(AP) - A part of a 1,800-year-old bronze chariot, seen, at an ancient Thracian tomb near the village of Karanovo, east of the Bulgarian capital Sofia, Friday, Nov. 21, 2008. Archaeologists have unearthed a well-preserved 1,800-year-old bronze chariot at an ancient Thracian tomb in southeastern Bulgaria, the head of the excavation said Friday. Along with the chariot, which was decorated with scenes from mythology, the team unearthed well-preserved wooden and leather objects, some of which the archaeologists believe were horse harnesses. (AP Photo)
(AP) - Archaeologists work around a 1,800-year-old bronze chariot at an ancient Thracian tomb near the village of Karanovo, east of the Bulgarian capital Sofia, Friday, Nov. 21, 2008. Along with the chariot, which was decorated with scenes from mythology, the team unearthed well-preserved wooden and leather objects, some of which the archaeologists believe were horse harnesses. (AP Photo)
(AP) - Archaeologists work around a 1,800-year-old bronze chariot at an ancient Thracian tomb near the village of Karanovo, east of the Bulgarian capital Sofia, Friday, Nov. 21, 2008. Along with the chariot, which was decorated with scenes from mythology, the team unearthed well-preserved wooden and leather objects, some of which the archaeologists believe were horse harnesses. (AP Photo)
(AFP/BGNES) - Bulgarian archaeologists work near a Thracian bronze chariot discovered near the village of Karanovo. A bronze chariot dating back to the second century AD has been unearthed in a Thracian burial mound in southeastern Bulgaria, archaeologists said Friday.(AFP/BGNES)
Half a year after the Sichuan earthquake devastated the town of Beichuan, China, residents in this once-scenic town try to rebuild their lives amidst the rubble
Captions by Lin Yang.
Photographs for TIME by Ian Teh / Panos
TIME's art critic Richard Lacayo reviews the first major museum survey of the American sculptor, who transforms disposable objects into stunning works of art
(Courtesy of Arne and Milly Glimcher; Photo: John Kennard)
After decades of enduring advertisements on every building in Sao Paulo, Brazil, the city passes a law requiring their removal or reduction.Photographs by CIA DE FOTO
(AP) - In this Sept. 24, 2004 file photo, a tourist smokes marijuana at a coffeeshop called 'de Dampkring' or 'Atmosphere', in the center of Amsterdam, Netherlands. Authorities in Amsterdam say on Friday, Nov. 21, 2008, they plan to close nearly one-fifth of the city's famous marijuana cafes because they are located too close to schools. The city says it wants to close 43 coffeeshops but at the same time has urged the government to regulate and tolerate the growers that supply the ones that remain. (AP Photo/Peter Dejong, File)
(AP) - A protester uses his shoe to strike an effigy of U.S. President George. W. Bush, in an expression of contempt, as thousands of followers of Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr converged on Firdous Square in central Baghdad, Iraq for a mass prayer to protest a proposed U.S.-Iraqi security pact on Friday, Nov. 21, 2008.(AP Photo/Karim Kadim)
(AP) - Venecia Lonis, 4, who suffers from malnutrition is weighed at the Doctors Without Borders hospital in Port-au-Prince, Wednesday, Nov. 19, 2008. Aid workers fear hunger is worsening in rural Haiti after at least 26 children died of conditions exacerbated by a lack of nutrition, raising concerns that a grave food crisis may be brewing following four devastating tropical storms.(AP Photo/Ramon Espinosa)
(AP) - In this image provided by the Kronenberg Foundation in Warsaw on Thursday, Nov. 20, 2008, a computer-generated reconstruction of what astronomer Nicolaus Copernicus may have looked like on the basis of a skull discovered in the cathedral in Frombork, northern Poland, is seen. Polish and Swedish researchers said Thursday they have identified the remains of Nicolaus Copernicus by comparing DNA from a skeleton they have found with that taken from hair retrieved from one of the 16th-century astronomer's books. (AP Photo/Kronenberg Foundation, HO)
(AP) - Venecia Lonis, 4, who suffers from malnutrition, is weighed at the Doctors Without Borders hospital in Port-au-Prince, Wednesday, Nov. 19, 2008. Aid workers fear hunger is worsening in rural Haiti after at least 26 children died of conditions exacerbated by a lack of nutrition, raising concerns that a grave food crisis may be brewing following four devastating tropical storms. (AP Photo/Ramon Espinosa)
(AP) - This undated handout photo provided by Stephen Schuster, Penn State University, shows a ball of permafrost-preserved mammoth hair containing thick outer-coat and thin under-coat hairs. (AP Photo/Stephen Schuster, Penn State University)
(AFP/File) - An aerial photo shows the ancient hilltop fortress of Masada in the Judean desert. Sprawled across a hemispherical mound where the Judaean Hills meet the desert, ancient Herodium lies deep inside the occupied West Bank but has borne up a treasure trove of finds for Israeli archaeologists.(AFP/File/Menahem Kahana)
(AP) - In this photo provided by Ford Motor Co., the 2010 Mustang sits on display at the Los Angeles Auto Show, Wednesday, Nov. 19, 2008, in Santa Monica, Calif. (AP Photo/Ford Motor Co)
(AP) - Visitors are seen at the mountain fortress of Herodium, in the West Bank, Wednesday, Nov. 19, 2008, where Israeli archaeologists are excavating what they believe is the tomb of biblical King Herod. Israeli archaeologist Prof. Ehud Netzer announced at a press conference on Wednesday, that analysis of newly revealed items found at the site of what they believe is King Herod's mausoleum at Herodium, have provided researchers with further proof of the site being the actual grave site of the Jewish King. (AP photos/Bernat Armangue)
(AP) - In this 2006 photo released Wednesday, Nov. 19, 2008 by the New Zealand Science Media Centre shown is a yellow-eyed penguin. Australian and New Zealand researchers studying one of the world's rare and endangered penguins have uncovered a previously unknown penguin species that disappeared about 500 years ago. The newly found 'Waitaha' penguin became extinct after Polynesian settlement of New Zealand but before A.D. 1500, researchers from Australia's University of Adelaide, New Zealand's University of Otago and Canterbury Museum, reported Wednesday, Nov. 19, 2008. The find came as the team was investigating changes in the endangered New Zealand yellow-eyed penguin population since human settlement of New Zealand around A.D. 1200-1300.(AP Photo/New Zealand Science Media Centre,Sanne Boessenkool, HO)
(Reuters) - Joints containing different types of cannabis are seen in their jars at a coffee shop in the southern Dutch city of Bergen op Zoom November 18, 2008. Dutch cities will on November 21, 2008 exchange experiences and information at a "weed summit" in Almere and discuss the soft drugs policy and its consequences. Bergen op Zoom may be the first Dutch city to shut coffee shops serving marijuana in February 2009. REUTERS/Jerry Lampen (NETHERLANDS)
(Reuters) - This undated handout photo shows a creature called a pygmy tarsier, believed for the eight decades to have been extinct. One of the world's smallest and rarest primates, it was rediscovered in Indonesia by Texas A and M University professor Sharon Gursky-Doyen in August. (Texas A and M University/Sharon Gursky-Doyen/Handout/Reuters)
(AP) - In this Nov. 12, 2008 photo, the sign in front of a Seven Eleven store in Independence, Mo. shows the price of one gallon of unleaded regular gasoline to be $1.69.9. Wholesale prices plunged a record amount in October as energy prices fell by the largest amount in 22 years. (AP Photo/Charlie Riedel, File)
(Reuters) - PDSA veterinary nurse Jennie Keen with Tinks, a 13-year-old cat from Gillingham. His current weight of 9.8kg makes him around 96 percent overweight. (Handout/Reuters)
(AP) - Model Karolina Kurkova walks the runway during Victoria's Secret Fashion Show at the Fontainebleau Miami Beach Hotel on Saturday, Nov. 15, 2008 in Miami Beach. The show will be broadcast on the CBS Television Network on Dec. 3, 2008. (AP Photo/Evan Agostini)
(AP) - The decreasing moon settles behind the snow covered Pizalun mountain (1478 meters above sea level) near Mastrils in the Swiss canton of Grison, Switzerland, on Saturday morning, Nov. 15, 2008. (AP Photo/Keystone, Arno Balzarini)
(AP) - Hippo (Hippopotamus amphibius) baby Farasi, born on Nov. 6, 2008 is seen in its enclosure along with mother Helvetia in the zoo in Basel, Switzerland, Wednesday, Nov. 12, 2008. (AP Photo/Keystone, Andreas Frossard)
(AP) - Hippo (Hippopotamus amphibius) baby Farasi, born on Nov. 6, 2008 is seen in its enclosure along with mother Helvetia in the zoo in Basel, Switzerland, Wednesday, Nov. 12, 2008. (AP Photo/Keystone, Andreas Frossard)
The Great Nebula in Orion, also known as M42, is one of the most famous nebulae in the sky. The star forming region’s glowing gas clouds and hot young stars are on the right in this sharp and colorful two frame mosaic that includes the smaller nebula M43 near center and dusty, bluish reflection nebulae NGC 1977 and friends on the left. Located at the edge of an otherwise invisible giant molecular cloud complex, these eye-catching nebulae represent only a small fraction of this galactic neighborhood’s wealth of interstellar material. Within the well-studied stellar nursery, astronomers have also identified what appear to be numerous infant solar systems. The gorgeous skyscape spans nearly two degrees or about 45 light-years at the Orion Nebula’s estimated distance of 1,500 light-years.
How massive can a normal star be? Estimates made from distance, brightness and standard solar models had given one star in the open cluster Pismis 24 over 200 times the mass of our Sun, making it a record holder. This star is the brightest object located just above the gas front in the above image. Close inspection of images taken recently with the Hubble Space Telescope, however, have shown that Pismis 24-1 derives its brilliant luminosity not from a single star but from three at least. Component stars would still remain near 100 solar masses, making them among the more massive stars currently on record. Toward the bottom of the image, stars are still forming in the associated emission nebulaNGC 6357, including several that appear to be breaking out and illuminating a spectacular cocoon.
Posted in Deep Space, Space Fotos Tagged: APoD, Emission Nebula, ESA, Hubble Space Telescope, Instituto de Astrofísica de Andalucía, J. M. Apellániz, NASA, NGC 6357, Pismis 24, Spain
Imagine a pipe as wide as a state and as long as half the Earth. Now imagine that this pipe is filled with hot gas moving 50,000 kilometers per hour. Further imagine that this pipe is not made of metal but a transparent magnetic field. You are envisioning just one of thousands of young spicules on the active Sun. Pictured above is perhaps the highest resolution image yet of these enigmatic solar flux tubes. Spicules dot the above frame of solar active region 10380 that crossed the Sun in 2004 June, but are particularly evident as a carpet of dark tubes on the right. Time-sequenced images have recently shown that spicules last about five minutes, starting out as tall tubes of rapidly rising gas but eventually fading as the gas peaks and falls back down to the Sun. These images also indicate that the ultimate cause of spicules is sound-like waves that flow over the Sun’s surface but leak into the Sun’s atmosphere.
Posted in Planets, Space Fotos Tagged: APoD, Lockheed Martin Solar and Astrophysics Lab, Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, solar active region 10380, Spicules, Sun, Swedish 1-m Solar Telescope
(AP) - Rachel Smith, 32, of Richmond, looks over shotguns at the Bob Moates sport shop in Richmond, Va., Thursday, Nov. 6, 2008. Smith, the mother of five children and an avid hunter plans to purchase several guns before President-elect Obama takes office. (AP Photo/Steve Helber)
(Reuters) - A female lion picks up one of three cubs she gave birth to in captivity at the zoo in Cali. November 6, 2008.Reuters Jaime Saldarriaga (Colombia)
(Reuters) - Zookeeper Renae Zammit takes care of Monifa, a three-week-old pygmy hippopotamus, in its enclosure at Taronga Zoo in Sydney November 7, 2008. Monifa was born on October 15 after a difficult breach birth and zookeepers made the decision to intervene and raise the female calf. REUTERS/Daniel Munoz (AUSTRALIA)
(AP) - 'Monifa' a three-week-old baby pygmy hippopotamus enjoys a walk in her enclosure at Sydney's Taronga Zoo, Friday, Nov. 7, 2008. Monifa, meaning 'I am lucky' in Nigerian, is the first pygmy hippopotamus birth at the zoo in 23 years and weighed in at 3.8 kilograms at birth on October 15. (AP Photo/Mark Baker)
(AP) - A squirrel pauses at attention as it tries to take some of the material from a U.S. flag Thursday Nov 6, 2008 in Omaha, Neb.(AP Photo/Dave Weaver)
Only Axl Rose remains in the group, but since 1987 GnR has been rocking with fury
More than 50 years of cover stories about the 35th President
November 14-20, 2008
Half a year after the Sichuan earthquake devastated the town of Beichuan, China, residents in this once-scenic town try to rebuild their lives amidst the rubble
Captions by Lin Yang.
Photographs for TIME by Ian Teh / Panos
In the 150 years since the island cast aside its policy of isolation, Japan has fallen in and out of favor with the international community
This year, close to 90 ships have been seized in and around the Gulf of Aden, more than triple the number of 2007
TIME's art critic Richard Lacayo reviews the first major museum survey of the American sculptor, who transforms disposable objects into stunning works of art
After decades of enduring advertisements on every building in Sao Paulo, Brazil, the city passes a law requiring their removal or reduction.Photographs by CIA DE FOTO
Four former Soviet Republics fight for control of a precious resource 
On November 18, 1978, 909 men, women and children died in "revolutionary suicide" at Jim Jones' Peoples Temple in Guyana
