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The Great Wave off Kanagawa
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The Great Wave off Kanagawa (Kanagawa Oki Nami Ura?, lit. "Under a Wave off Kanagawa"), also known as The Great Wave or simply The Wave, is a woodblock print by the Japanese artist Hokusai. An example of ukiyo-e art, it was published sometime between 1830 and 1833 (during the Edo Period) as...
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Chinese Two Suns
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Two suns' spotted in China The double sun image is an effect of optical refraction, he said, but it's a "pretty darn rare" one, and one not fully explained by science. previous sightings of horizontally-aligned double images of the sun and moon are recorded in a book called "Light an...
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Gemini
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Expand (319kb, 1024 x 768) Time: 4:10 GMT 16th August 2007 Exposure: 20 seconds
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Joan Eardley
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Joan Kathleen Harding Eardley (18 May 1921 - 16 August 1963) was a Scottish artist. She bought a cottage in Catterline, Kincardineshire, a place which became a subject of many of her works. The sea at Catterline was one of her favourite subjects, especially in stormy weather. [url=http://en.wikip...
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IC2118
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This reflection nebula is associated with the bright star Rigel in the constellation Orion.
The Witch Head Nebula, also known as IC 2118, glows primarily by light reflected from bright star Rigel, located just off the upper right edge of the full image. Fine dust in the nebula reflects the light. T...
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Goodsell Observatory
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Carleton's Goodsell Observatory gets turned into R2D2 by an unknown group of enterprising students--complete with sound effects. All the "decorations" appear to have been draped or taped onto the dome; there was no defacing with spray paint, etc. [url=http://www.facebook.com/al...
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Art installation
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A crack in the floor at home would be considered a homeowner's nightmare - but this enormous opening is the Tate Modern's newest art installation. The work begins as a hairline fracture, and then widens as it winds its way 167m across the gallerys Turbine Hall, dramatically opening the concrete floo...
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Sandro Botticelli, Venus and Mars
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One of the National Gallerys best-known paintings, a scene of pastoral bliss by Botticelli, is officially regarded as a story of the all-conquering power of love, but a new study suggests that it has a more racy meaning. Venus and Mars may also be an illustration of the potency of hallucinogenic drug...
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Klencke Atlas
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Klencke Atlas (1660) is the world's largest dimensioned book. It is 1.75 metres tall by 1.9 metres wide when open, and so heavy the British Library reportedly had six people to carry it. It is a world atlas, made up of 37 maps on 39 sheets. It was presented by Dutch merchant Johannes Klencke to King Cha...
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Marty St James
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British visual artist, Marty St James, is to create new artworks during February 2010 in Antarctica. Marty St James a professor of Fine art in the School Art and Design at the University of Hertfordshire was invited by the Cultural Projects for National Antarctic Affairs Argentine Chancellery to c...
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The Southern Sky
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360-degree Panorama of the Southern Sky Expand (1082kb, 4000 x 1216) Credit: ESO The Milky Way arches across this rare 360-degree panorama of the night sky above the Paranal platform, home of ESOs Very Large Telesc...
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Security Notice
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Unidentified Images
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Images baffle East Texans Within days of each other, two game cameras from separate hunters captured strange images, images that have no apparent explanation. Hunter Doyle Brogan was checking pictures from his Cass County hunting lease when he saw something he can't explain. [url=http://www.k...
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Slide show
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Slide show: See the cosmos on your computer Highlights from the shuttle Discovery's flight, the Phoenix Mars Lander mission and much more in the June roundup of cosmic pictures Read more
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Space photographer Ray Palmer
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Exploding rockets, monster comets and a sea of storms are all in a night's work for Perth deep-space photographer Ray Palmer. The self-taught cosmotographer, who has dedicated 15 years to capturing images many moons away, will have his work up in lights this month in Northbridge. [url=http://www...
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