Ohhhh El.Partenon, Otra Maravilla Que Espero Poder Conocer!!

La arquitectura fundida con el arte se convierte en una obra de enseñanza histórica. En ellas podemos leer los sucesos de los grandes éxitos militares de la época.

Reliefs on the column of Marcus Aurelius  | 2nd Century AD

One of the brightest galaxies in planet Earth’s sky is similar in size to our Milky Way Galaxy: big, beautiful M81. The grand spiral galaxy can be found toward the northern constellation of the Great Bear (Ursa Major). This superbly detailed image reveals M81’s bright yellow nucleus, blue spiral arms, tell tale pinkish star forming regions, and sweeping cosmic dust lanes with a scale comparable to the Milky Way. Hinting at a disorderly past, a remarkable dust lane actually runs straight through the disk, to the left of the galactic center, contrary to M81’s other prominent spiral features. The errant dust lane may be the lingering result of a close encounter between between M81 and its smaller companion galaxy, M82. Scrutiny of variable stars in M81 has yielded one of the best determined distances for an external galaxy – 11.8 million light-years. M81’s dwarf companion galaxy Holmberg IX can be seen just above the large spiral.

Object Names: M81

Image Type: Astronomical

Credit: Ken Crawford (Rancho Del Sol Observatory)

Time And Space

Maravillosa imagen. Este es un excelente blog.

How could a galaxy become shaped like a ring? The rim of the blue galaxy pictured on the right is an immense ring-like structure 150,000 light years in diameter composed of newly formed, extremely bright, massive stars. That galaxy, AM 0644-741, is known as a ring galaxy and was caused by an immense galaxy collision. When galaxies collide, they pass through each other – their individual stars rarely come into contact. The ring-like shape is the result of the gravitational disruption caused by an entire small intruder galaxy passing through a large one. When this happens, interstellar gas and dust become condensed, causing a wave of star formation to move out from the impact point like a ripple across the surface of a pond. The intruder galaxy is just outside of the frame taken by the Hubble Space Telescope. This featured image was taken to commemorate the anniversary of Hubble’s launch in 1990. Ring galaxy AM 0644-741 lies about 300 million light years away.

Object Names: Ring Galaxy, AM 0644-741

Image Type: Astronomical

Credit: Hubble Heritage Team (AURA/ STScl), J. Higdon (Cornell), ESA, NASA

Time And Space

Terracotta Panathenaic prize amphora

Attributed to a painter of the Kittos group

Attica, Greece, Classical Period, c. 366/5 B.C. 

Metropolitan Museum of Art

Por favor disfruten esta hermosa foto. Por un momento cierren sus ojos e imagínense ahí. Que maravilla no?

Rockesholm

He de volar en globo!!!

by Manu Hansen ( tumblr )

Ohhhh yo quiero una casa en un árbol como esta!!!!!

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Alta ingeniería!!

The new “front door” of the ISS is now open for business with the next generation of space vehicles!  US EVA-36 spacewalkers Jeff Williams and Kate Rubins installed the International Docking Adapter (#2) on the front of the ISS this morning.

via #NASA_APP

via #NASA_APP