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Copyright-Free Photo Archive: Public Domain Photos and Images The photo archive at Gimp-Savvy.com has more than 27,000 free photos and images saved on our own dedicated server, consisting of over 2.5 Gbytes of data. The goal is to make this archive a resource for collage and photo-montage using digital image editing techniques such as those described in Chapter 7 of Grokking the GIMP. To improve the archive's usefulness, full indexing of the images is planned. However, this job would be taxing for a single person, and would probably produce only mediocre results. Consequently, the solution is to provide an interactive environment allowing the community to participate in the labelling of archived photos. The expectation is that the resulting index will be both richer and more robust than one fashioned by any so-called master architect.

Darkest Planet Found: Coal-Black, It Reflects Almost No Light It may be hard to imagine a planet blacker than coal, but that's what astronomers say they've discovered in our home galaxy with NASA's Kepler space telescope. Orbiting only about three million miles out from its star, the Jupiter-size gas giant planet, dubbed TrES-2b, is heated to 1,800 degrees Fahrenheit (980 degrees Celsius). Yet the apparently inky world appears to reflect almost none of the starlight that shines on it, according to a new study. "Being less reflective than coal or even the blackest acrylic paint—this makes it by far the darkest planet ever discovered," lead study author David Kipping said.

Libraries Digital Collections Rotator powered by <a href=" a free and easy <a href=" slider</a> builder from DWUser.com. Please enable JavaScript to view. Search across all collections Select a collection to browse Award-Winning The March On Milwaukee Civil Rights History Project This digital collection, which has won three state and national awards, presents primary sources from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Libraries and the Wisconsin Historical Society that provide a window onto Milwaukee’s civil rights history.

Public domain image resources Public domain image resources is a copy of the master Wikipedia page at Meta, which lists a number of sources of public domain images on the Web. Public Domain images should be marked with the Public Domain Mark 1.0. Public Domain Mark enables works that are no longer restricted by copyright to be marked as such in a standard and simple way, making them easily discoverable and available to others.

Asteroid near miss: Too close for comfort It is called 2012 KT42. It was discovered on Monday. It passed by Earth on Tuesday. It is a new asteroid. Fortunately, it did not hit and fortunately, it was only four metres wide, meaning that even if it had entered the atmosphere, it would have disintegrated. Forsyth Library Digital Collections Our Digital Projects: As part of our efforts to support the library’s mission of providing and sustaining the free flow of information, we have developed multiple digital collections falling under the guidance of the Forsyth Library Digital Collections Initiative (FLDCI) [see About Us]. It is our ongoing mission not only to provide access and retrieval, but also to develop and maintain a “safety zone,” in which the new digital information generated by us will be preserved for the long-term using, whenever possible, industry-wide best practices, well-established standards, and open source formats and software solutions. Interactive "Data Visualization" Searching One of our current innovations under development is the employment of interactive search interfaces using open-source software developed by MIT's SIMILE Widgets program.

Watching asteroids and comets to avoid impact Dangers posed by asteroids are among the issues discussed during the third international meeting of the top-level representatives in charge security currently underway in Saint-Petersburg. The report on countering asteroid and meteorites threats is to be made by Russian Federal Space Agency (Roscosmos) representative. Space strikes back… and again

A comet comes calling A comet has appeared in the Northern Hemisphere. The Emerald Comet was first seen in 2009 by the Australian, Robert McKnight , who predicted that the S2009R1 - the scientific name of the Comet, will enter the Solar system, and in June this year, come close to the earth. Mr. McKnight’s forecast has been proven correct and the heavenly visitor is streaming toward the Earth. On June 15th, it will come very close to the Northern Hemisphere and then start moving away from the earth, says Victor Shor, a senior employee of the St. Petersburg Institute of Applied Astronomy. Internet helps to discover stars A supernova has been discovered in a remote galaxy by an amateur astronomer. A student at a higher educational establishment in Moscow did this while he was hundreds of kilometers away from the telescope in the city of Kislovodsk and maintaining links with it through the Internet. The discovery was made by a student of the Institute of Steel and Alloys, Pavel Balanuts. In fact, this is his third discovery, and he considers it as an ordinary event: "When I saw it I realized immediately for sure that this was a supernova," says Pavel Balanuts.

HubbleSite - The James Webb Space Telescope The James Webb Space Telescope is NASA's next orbiting observatory and the successor to the Hubble Space Telescope. A tennis court-sized telescope orbiting far beyond Earth's moon, Webb will detect infrared radiation and be capable of seeing in that wavelength as well as Hubble sees in visible light. Infrared vision is vital to our understanding of the universe. The furthest objects we can detect are seen in infrared light, cooler objects that would otherwise be invisible emit infrared, and infrared light pierces clouds of dust, allowing us to see into their depths. cubic-paranal-gegenschein-guisard - Panorama of the Chilean night sky This Quicktime interactive panorama movie shows the night sky over ESO’s Paranal Observatory in Chile and reveals its incredible richness and beauty. To launch the panorama please click the link on the right under QuickTime VR. To navigate this dual landscape and starscape, left-click on the image and continue pressing the button as you drag the mouse in the direction you would like to see. To zoom in and out, press "shift" or "ctrl". Moving towards the right, the panorama shows the Milky Way band blazing over the horizon. Ascending the mountain that comes into view, one sees ESO’s Very Large Telescope array and the red beam of its Laser Guide Star.

The Solar System: Pluto After 76 years of glory, the small ball of rock and ice known as Pluto was relegated to the solar system backwaters in 2006 when astronomers dropped it from the list of planets. Instead, it's simply the most famous member of the Kuiper Belt, a broad doughnut-shaped ring of objects that extends outward from just inside the orbit of Neptune, the most distant planet. Because it is so far from the Sun, astronomers had a hard time measuring Pluto's size. Astronomers finally got it right in the 1980s, after James Christy discovered a companion object. By watching Pluto and the companion, named Charon, eclipse each other, they measured Pluto's diameter at about 1,400 miles -- about one-third less than the diameter of Earth's Moon.

Dwarf planet Eris reveals its secrets Scientists consider it an event when they get a chance to reveal the secrets on the periphery of our Solar System. In fact, a few days ago they had a rare opportunity to make the parameters of Eris more precise. This is the most massive dwarf planet in the Solar System, which rotates around the sun far away from the orbits of main planets. Scientists initially described it as the Solar System’s tenth planet. Several observatories in the western hemisphere prepared to observe a stellar occultation by Eris, but only three telescopes in Chili, which fell into the stripe of the shadow of Eris, could watch it. New Data on Higgs Boson Is Shrouded in Secrecy at CERN A team of physicists gathered in a room at on Friday to begin crunching new data from the this year. And they will be at it all week. What they are seeing nobody knows.