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The Moon and beta Taurus
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Expand (195kb, 1024 x 768) The Moon and beta Taurus (Alnath) Time: 01:30 BST, 9th August, 2007
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Vincent Van Gogh
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Australia gallery officials have announced that a painting, entitled Head of a Man, that had been thought to be by the Dutch master Vincent Van Gogh has been proven to be by another artist. The painting is owned by the National Gallery of Victoria in Melbourne who acquired it in 1940 and had been valu...
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Anime
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Baltimore anime convention. About 50,000 animaniacs are expected to be in Baltimore City this weekend for the Otakon Convention. Some call it 'The Gathering of the Geeks,' but to local anime fans it is simply the 14th time that the Otakon gathering has been held at the Convention Center in Baltimore...
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Damnatio memoriae
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A fresco painting by a Renaissance master which once decorated the bedroom of Pope Alexander VI in the Vatican has gone on show in Rome. A leading Italian art historian and curator says he has documentary proof that it was once part of a much larger painting depicting the aged Pope kneeling in front of h...
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Tate in Space
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The Tate Satellite was launched on June 6th 2002. It is currently orbiting at an orbital velocity of 7.67 km/sec approximately 400km from earth in a polar to polar low earth orbit. The satellite orbits earth every 92.56 mins and traverses the entire globe in the course of 15.56 orbits - 24 hours - 1 day....
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Fornax
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The Hubble Space Telescope has spied a menagerie of galaxies. Located within the same tiny region of space, these numerous galaxies display an assortment of unique characteristics. Some are big; some are small. A few are relatively nearby, but most are far away. Hundreds of these faint galaxies ha...
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Allan Paris
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An artist has added to the repertoire of all-singing, all-dancing mobile phones by creating paintings with one. Art lecturer Allan Paris abandoned his brushes and canvas to produce images using a touch-sensitive screen on his handset. 'I discovered the technique when I got a new phone' - Allan Par...
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NGC5866
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This is a unique view of the disk galaxy NGC 5866 tilted nearly edge-on to our line-of-sight. The Hubble space telescope's sharp vision reveals a crisp dust lane dividing the galaxy into two halves. The image highlights the galaxy's structure: a subtle, reddish bulge surrounding a bright n...
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Prototype
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An alien bag pipe, creating analogue sound synthesis according to the movement of the tonetacles. this project was developed with the royal college of art and yamaha, but as it is just a prototype it is not produced.
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Smithsonian Photo Contest
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A photo collection from the Smithsonian Magazine Photo Contest Weblink
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Canis Major
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Constellation Canis Major Exposure Time 15 Seconds 23 February 2007 23:31 UTC Expand (85kb, 617 x 1024) Canis Major is one of the 88 modern constellations, and was also in Ptolemy's list of 48 constellations. It is said to represent one of the dogs following Orion the hunter (see al...
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Jostedalsbreen National Park
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Jostedalsbreen National Park is an unbelievable mix of forest-covered mountains, sheer cliffs, streams, waterfalls, and continental Europe's largest glacier: Jostedal. These pictures offer a glimpse int...
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Astronomy picture for today
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NGC1499
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Crater Lake, Oregon
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Crater Lake is formed from the caldera of Mount Mazama. Part of the Cascades volcanic chain, Mount Mazama is situated between the Three Sisters volcanoes to the north and Mount Shasta to the south. The catastrophic eruption of Mount Mazama that occurred approximately 7,700 years ago destroyed the...
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