Pink Floyd - "Coming back to life" - Video - Music

"Coming back to life"

Palacios cariocas - Museu de Belas Artes

Tombado pelo Instituto do Patrimônio Histórico e Artístico Nacional desde 1973, o edifício, construído em 1909, no Centro do Rio de Janeiro, teve como inspiração o Museu do Louvre, em Paris.

O acervo do museu conta com mais de 22.000 itens, desde 1808, trazidos por Dom João VI, até o início do século XX.

Astronomy picture of the day - 2016 December 27 - M31: The Andromeda Galaxy

M31: The Andromeda Galaxy 
Image Credit & Copyright: Farmakopoulos Antonis

Explanation: What is the nearest major galaxy to our own Milky Way Galaxy? Andromeda. In fact, our Galaxy is thought to look much like Andromeda. Together these two galaxies dominate the Local Group of galaxies. The diffuse light from Andromeda is caused by the hundreds of billions of stars that compose it. The several distinct stars that surround Andromeda's image are actually stars in our Galaxy that are well in front of the background object. Andromedais frequently referred to as M31 since it is the 31st object on Messier's list of diffuse sky objects. M31 is so distant it takes about two million years for light to reach us from there. Although visible without aid, the featured image of M31is a digital mosaic of several frames taken with a small telescope. Much about M31 remains unknown, including exactly how many billions of years it will before it collides with our home galaxy.