Uma artista que cria surpreendentes mandalas pintando pedras do oceano

 

A criadora Elspeth McLean é uma artista australiana que cria mandalas incríveis usando pedras lisas do oceano. Ela pinta milhares de minúsculos pontinhos sobre as pedras e todos eles se reúnem para fazer belíssimas imagens. Inspire-se!

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Where Children Play

 

Posted: 06 Aug 2015 06:30 AM PDT

Se rappelant que ses souvenirs d’enfance, en grande majorité, se déroulaient dans la cour de son école, le photographe James Mollison a eu l’excellente idée de créer avec cette série Playgrounds un panorama des cours d’école à travers le monde, en commençant par sa propre école en Angleterre.

Hubble Finds a Little Gem

 

This colorful bubble is a planetary nebula called NGC 6818, also known as the Little Gem Nebula. It is located in the constellation of Sagittarius (The Archer), roughly 6,000 light-years away from us. The rich glow of the cloud is just over half a light-year across — humongous compared to its tiny central star — but still a little gem on a cosmic scale. When stars like the sun enter "retirement," they shed their outer layers into space to create glowing clouds of gas called planetary nebulae. This ejection of mass is uneven, and planetary nebulae can have very complex shapes. NGC 6818 shows knotty filament-like structures and distinct layers of material, with a bright and enclosed central bubble surrounded by a larger, more diffuse cloud. Scientists believe that the stellar wind from the central star propels the outflowing material, sculpting the elongated shape of NGC 6818. As this fast wind smashes through the slower-moving cloud it creates particularly bright blowouts at the bubble’s outer layers. Hubble previously imaged this nebula back in 1997 with its Wide Field Planetary Camera 2, using a mix of filters that highlighted emission from ionized oxygen and hydrogen. This image, while from the same camera, uses different filters to reveal a different view of the nebula.   Image credit: ESA/Hubble & NASA, Acknowledgement: Judy Schmidt Text credit: European Space Agency Last Updated: Aug. 7, 2015 Editor: Ashley Morrow

NASA to Share the Universe with Tumblr Users

 

NASA is launching an official Tumblr profile that will give Tumblr users a regular dose of space in a blog-like format through text, photos, videos and more. Tumblr is a social media platform that allows users to connect and follow other content creators in a collaborative micro-blog format. People are able to discover, share and create content that expresses their personality, hobbies and interests. The NASA Tumblr profile will share information, images and video about the agency’s missions of exploration and discovery. To follow NASA’s new Tumblr account, visit: http://nasa.tumblr.com Credits: NASA NASA now is on Tumblr Along with the new official NASA Tumblr account, astronaut Peggy Whitson will offer a behind-the-scenes look at an astronaut’s journey as she trains for a six-month mission to the International Space Station. It takes a NASA Village to train an astronaut, and Whitson’s Tumblr will highlight the many people who make human spaceflight possible. To follow Whitson’s Tumblr, visit: http://astropeggy.tumblr.com/ These two official NASA Tumblr profiles will be joined by two mission accounts. The JunoCam Tumblr will showcase Jupiter images from amateur astronomers and public-processed images from JunoCam on board NASA's Juno mission. The Curiosity rover will share engineering, science and selfies from the surface of Mars. To follow JunoCam and Curiosity on Tumblr, visit: http://nasajunocam.tumblr.com http://curiositymarsrover.tumblr.com NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, manages the Juno and Curiosity missions for the agency's Science Mission Directorate in Washington. NASA engages and inspires the public by sharing unique content through social media. The agency continues to add new platforms like Tumblr to offer the public a comprehensive view of NASA’s missions, facilities and people. For a comprehensive list of NASA social media accounts and platforms, visit: www.nasa.gov/socialmedia John Yembrick / Jason Townsend Headquarters, Washington 202-358-1584 / 202-358-0359 john.yembrick@nasa.gov / jason.c.townsend@nasa.gov Last Updated: Aug. 7, 2015 Editor: Karen Northon