29 agosto 2017
Feitiço de Amor - A Poderosa Amarração Amorosa do Girassol
Panoramic Eclipse Composite with Star Trails
What was happening in the sky during last week's total solar eclipse? This featured little-planet, all-sky, double time-lapse, digitally-fused composite captured celestial action during both night and day from a single location. In this 360x180 panorama, north and south are at the image bottom and top, while east and west are at the left and right edges, respectively. During four hours the night before the eclipse, star trails were captured circling the north celestial pole (bottom) as the Earth spun. During the day of the total eclipse, the Sun was captured every fifteen minutes from sunrise to sunset (top), sometimes in partial eclipse. All of these images were then digitally merged onto a single image taken exactly during the total solar eclipse. Then, the Sun's bright corona could be seen flaring around the dark new Moon (upper left), while Venus simultaneously became easily visible (top). The tree in the middle, below the camera, is a Douglas fir. The images were taken with care and planning at Magone Lake in Oregon, USA.
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"Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe."
Bizarra ‘forma de vida’ foi filmada em Taiwan
Uma estranha “criatura” composta por um emaranhado de videiras pretas foi filmada se batendo no chão.
O organismo, que foi gravado por Huang Meilan em Hsinchu, Taiwan, parece consistir em uma massa de videiras como uma apêndice que são capazes de se mover independentemente um do outro.
No vídeo, estes podem ser vistas se ondulando e torcendo de uma maneira altamente desconcertante.
“Encontrei isso no chão e me chamou a atenção”, disse Huang. “Foi tão estranho e as pessoas disseram coisas diferentes sobre isso. Mas eu queria saber o que era”.
Uma possível explicação é que a “criatura” seja uma massa enredada de vermes de crina.
Alguns usuários da internet chegaram a descrevê-lo como uma “forma de vida alienígena”.
Aug. 29, 1965 - Gemini V Crew Returns to Earth
Gemini V command pilot Gordon Cooper (right) and Charles "Pete" Conrad, pilot, walk across the deck of the aircraft carrier USS Lake Champlain following their spacecraft's recovery from the ocean on Aug. 29, 1965. The eight-day Gemini V endurance mission doubled America's spaceflight record set two months earlier.
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Ottoman Empire and Edo-era Japan. You probably never thought...
Ottoman Empire and Edo-era Japan. You probably never thought about them together before, right? Turns out the Ottomans knew about Japan since at least the late 1600s, because the Ottoman scholar Katip Çelebi included Japan in his atlas “Displaying the World.”
He didn’t quite get the shape of the islands, or their number, or their names…but hey, he tried!