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13 outubro 2016
Galaxies from the Altiplano
The central bulge of our Milky Way Galaxy rises over the northern Chilean Atacama altiplano in this postcard from planet Earth. At an altitude of 4500 meters, the strange beauty of the desolate landscape could almost belong to another world though. Brownish red and yellow tinted sulfuric patches lie along the whitish salt flat beaches of the Salar de Aguas Calientes region. In the distance along the Argentina border is the stratovolcano Lastarria, its peak at 5700 meters (19,000 feet). In the clear, dark sky above, stars, nebulae, and cosmic dust clouds in the Milky Way echo the colors of the altiplano at night. Extending the view across extragalactic space, the Large and Small Magellanic Clouds, satellite galaxies of the Milky Way, shine near the horizon through a faint greenish airglow.
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You might have known that Robert E. Lee graduated from West Point in 1829. But did you know that he...
You might have known that Robert E. Lee graduated from West Point in 1829. But did you know that he returned there in 1852? Lee served as superintendent from 1852 to 1855, and was responsible for the training of many of the boys would would serve in the Confederate army, fighting under him. And many of the boys who would serve the Union army, fighting against him.
Chilpak Dakhma: an artificial tower known as the Tower of...
Chilpak Dakhma: an artificial tower known as the Tower of Silence. According to Zoroastrian belief, the sacred elements of earth, fire, air, and water must not be polluted. So the dead are left exposed, until scavengers completely deflesh them. The bones were gathered and placed in special ossuaries. Chilpak Dakhma was built by the Zoroastrians who dominated the western steppes in Uzbekistan before the coming of the Arabs in the 700s CE.
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