Interactive Starry Night Over the past few years I’ve probably encountered dozens of terrible, kitschy animated interpretations of Edvard Munch’s The Scream or Da Vinci’s Mona Lisa, but this interactive version of Van Gogh’s Starry Night seems to be something wholly different and wonderful. Greek digital artist Petros Vrellis used openFrameworks to convert the post-impressionist painting into an interactive artwork, where touch-sensitive gestures change the direction of the wind, sprout new buildings, and create ambient background tones. I bet if Van Gogh rolled over in his grave to look at this, it might make him smile a bit.
Cold Snap Across Europe Rare snowstorms in Rome and Tripoli and mounting death tolls from exposure were among the consequences of a severe cold snap in Europe in late January and early February 2012. Meteorologist Jeff Masters described it as Europe’s worst stretch of cold weather since February 1991. This map above shows temperature anomalies for Europe and western Russia from January 25 to February 1, 2012, compared to temperatures for the same dates from 2001 to 2011. The anomalies are based on land surface temperatures observed by the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) on NASA’s Terra satellite. Areas with above-average temperatures appear in red and orange, and areas with below-average temperatures appear in shades of blue. Oceans and lakes appear in gray. Blue dominates this image, with most regions experiencing temperatures well below normal. Masters explains that the unusual cold is a product of the jet stream. ReferencesDr. Instrument(s): Terra - MODIS
Delle case di alcuni pittori a Venezia.Fabio Mutinelli 1838 01:06 | by Edmea Fornasari Gli Annali di Fabio Mutinelli - Libro Sesto ci regalano alcune litografie molto belle , alcune delle quali raffigurano le case di alcuni pittori che risiedevano e lavoravano in Venezia al tempo di Tiziano .Anche queste escono dalla Litografia Veneta, sono state disegnate da Pietro Chevalier a Venezia nel 1838. Delle case di alcuni pittori a Venezia.Fabio Mutinelli 1838 La prima è la casa di Tintoretto, la seconda di Giorgione La prima rappresenta il giardino di Alessandro Vittoria, l a seconda la casa di Tiziano Le stesse immagini a cui mi è piaciuto dare un tocco di colore. 2011©segniesogni-prova.blogspot.com Continua alla pagina seguente....... Google Libri:
Dark Matter Found Lurking at Edges of Galaxies The Sloan Digital Sky Survey is the gift that keeps on giving. This ambitious project to map the night sky has been collecting data since 2000 and making it available to researchers all over the world. Now, Japanese scientists have used the data on 24 million galaxies to conduct a new computer simulation revealing how the mysterious dark matter might be distributed around those galaxies — even stretching into interstellar space. ANALYSIS: Milky Way Humming with Microwave Mystery First, a bit of background to this ongoing story. A physicist named Fritz Zwicky first noticed this phenomenon in 1933 when he concluded that galaxies in the Coma cluster were moving so quickly that they should be able to escape from the cluster if visible mass was the only thing contributing to the cluster’s gravitational pull. The visible matter wasn’t sufficient to account for this; the spiral galaxy should be flying apart. NEWS: Vast Web of Dark Matter Mapped
Astronomy Picture of the Day Discover the cosmos! Each day a different image or photograph of our fascinating universe is featured, along with a brief explanation written by a professional astronomer. 2016 April 15 Mercury and Crescent Moon Set Image Credit & Copyright: Miguel Claro (TWAN, Dark Sky Alqueva) Explanation: Innermost planet Mercury and a thin crescent Moon are never found far from the Sun in planet Earth's skies. Tomorrow's picture: Heliopause Electrostatic Rapid Transit System Authors & editors: Robert Nemiroff (MTU) & Jerry Bonnell (UMCP)NASA Official: Phillip Newman Specific rights apply.NASA Web Privacy Policy and Important NoticesA service of:ASD at NASA / GSFC& Michigan Tech.
SOLARHAM.com / SOLARCYCLE 24.com / Solar Cycle 24 / Spaceweather / Amateur Radio VHF Aurora Website / Sunspots / Solar Flares Cold and Spellbinding: An Alignment of Planets in the Sunset Sky Cold and Spellbinding: An Alignment of Planets in the Sunset Sky Feb. 17, 2012: Note to sky watchers: Put on your winter coats. What you’re about to read might make you feel an uncontrollable urge to dash outside. The brightest planets in the solar system are lining up in the evening sky, and you can see the formation—some of it at least—tonight. Go out at sunset and look west. If you go out at the same time tomorrow, the view improves, because Venus and Jupiter are converging. A special night to look is Saturday, Feb. 25th, when the crescent Moon moves in to form a slender heavenly triangle with Venus, Jupiter and the Moon as vertices (sky map). After hopping from Venus to Jupiter in late February, the Moon exits stage left, but the show is far from over. In March, Venus and Jupiter continue their relentless convergence until, on March 12th and 13th, the duo lie only three degrees apart—a spectacular double beacon in the sunset sky (sky map). Author:Dr.