February 2009
3 posts
I looked into the Eye of God, and all I got was...
Well well… More wonderful images from Space once again. This time, it’s NGC 7293, aka the Helix Nebula:
This colour-composite image of the Helix Nebula (NGC 7293) was created from images obtained using the the Wide Field Imager (WFI), an astronomical camera attached to the 2.2-metre Max-Planck Society/ESO telescope at the La Silla observatory in Chile. The blue-green glow in the...
Audio slideshow: Australian wildfires [BBC]
The bushfires raging across large areas of south-eastern Australia have destroyed entire towns and devastated local communities. Many people perished in their cars as they tried to drive to safety.
Here - accompanied by some graphic images and the sound of the strong winds that have been fanning the flames - eyewitnesses describe how they escaped, but how others were not so lucky.
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Hokusai's Second Wave, With Wires
This is a remix of a well-known woodblock print by the Japanese artist Hokusai, the same artist who created the famous series of woodblock prints named Thirty-Six Views of Mount Fuji.
It was remixed by persons unknown quite a few years ago, taking the original, moving it through digital pixelation and into a starkly contrasting wireframe for the right half of the image. It’s a wonderful...