Igrejas maravilhosas do Brasil - Igreja de São Francisco – Califórnia – PR

Construída por migrantes mineiros em 1957, a história da Igreja de São Francisco começou juntamente com a cidade de Califórnia, quando o local foi registrado como um município. Hoje é considerada o principal ponto turístico da região, e conhecida por ter uma das maiores torres do Paraná. Seu estilo possui predominância gótica e barroca, com destaque para o mosaico instalado em sua fachada representando o seu padroeiro.

Astronomy picture of the day - 2017 November 17 - Major Fireball Meteor

Major Fireball Meteor 
Image Credit & Copyright: Ollie Taylor

Explanation: The sky glows with soft pinkish colors of fading twilight in this serendipitous mountaintop vista. Taken in subfreezing temperatures, the thoughtfully composed photo shows snowy, rugged peaks seen from a mountain pass on November 14. Below lies the village of La Villa, Alta Badia in Italy's Dolomite Alps. Above the nestled village lights, the constellation Ursa Major hangs over the northern horizon. But most stunning is the intense fireball meteor. It was captured during the camera's exposure by chance as it flashed east to west across the northern horizon, under Ursa Major's familiar Big Dipper asterism. In fact, sightings of this major fireball meteor were widely reported in European skies, the most reported fireball event ever for planet Earth's American Meteor Society and the International Meteor Organization. The meteor's measured track over Germany is consistent with its origin near the active radiant of November's Taurid Meteor Shower. Taurid meteors are associated with dust from Encke's comet.

Grupo Coral de Cantares Regionais de Portel - "Se fores ao Alentejo" - Slides - Musica

"Se fores ao Alentejo"

Igrejas maravilhosas do Brasil - Basílica do Senhor Bom Jesus de Iguape – Iguape -SP

Construída entre os séculos, XVIII e XIX, a Basílica do Senhor Bom Jesus de Iguape demorou 80 anos para ser finalizada. Os materiais incorporados em sua obra, como pedra portuguesa, arga massa e óleo de baleia, juntamente com a riqueza de detalhes de seu interior e sua história, chamam a atenção de qualquer visitante. Várias imagens estão dispostas pela Basílica, entre elas a Nossa Senhora das Neves e Bom Jesus de Iguape, padroeiros do município.

Grandes Pintores Portugueses - José Malhoa - "O fado"

O Fado, 1910

Astronomy picture of the day - 2017 November 15 - The Tarantula Nebula

The Tarantula Nebula 
Image Credit & Copyright: Ignacio Diaz Bobillo

Explanation: The Tarantula Nebula is more than a thousand light-years in diameter, a giant star forming region within nearby satellite galaxy the Large Magellanic Cloud, about 180 thousand light-years away. The largest, most violent star forming region known in the whole Local Group of galaxies, the cosmic arachnid sprawls across this spectacular view composed with narrowband data centered on emission from ionized hydrogen and oxygen atoms. Within the Tarantula (NGC 2070), intense radiation, stellar winds and supernova shocks from the central young cluster of massive stars, cataloged as R136, energize the nebular glow and shape the spidery filaments. Around the Tarantula are other star forming regions with young star clusters, filaments, and blown-out bubble-shaped clouds. In fact, the frame includes the site of the closest supernova in modern times, SN 1987A, right of center. The rich field of view spans about 1 degree or 2 full moons, in the southern constellation Dorado. But were the Tarantula Nebula closer, say 1,500 light-years distant like the local star forming Orion Nebula, it would take up half the sky.

Pintores portugueses - Julio Pomar - "Fernando Pessoa encontra D. Sebastião num caixão sobre um burro ajaizado à Andaluza"

"Fernando Pessoa encontra D. Sebastião num caixão sobre um burro ajaizado à Andaluza"

1985. Oleo sobre tela. 157x154 (Pormenor)

Florestas do mundo - Parque Nacional de Fiordland, Nova Zelândia

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Considerado um Patrimônio Mundial pela UNESCO, o Parque Nacional de Fiordland é famoso por suas cachoeiras impressionantes, belas árvores em meio a montanhas e muitos quilômetros de praia.

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E mais: por lá, encontra-se uma atmosfera mágica marcada pelas locações usadas nos filmes de O Senhor dos Anéis, já que o parque guarda 14 incríveis e apaixonantes fiordes. Vale a pena conhecer!

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Renald Zapata - "Che Guevara" - Video - Painting - Live

"Che Guevara"

Astronomy picture of the day - 2017 November 15 - NGC 7789: Caroline's Rose

NGC 7789: Caroline's Rose 
Image Credit & Copyright: Guillaume Seigneure

Explanation: Found among the rich starfields of the Milky Way, star cluster NGC 7789 lies about 8,000 light-years away toward the constellation Cassiopeia. A late 18th century deep sky discovery of astronomer Caroline Lucretia Herschel, the cluster is also known as Caroline's Rose. Its flowery visual appearance in small telescopes is created by the cluster's nestled complex of stars and voids. Now estimated to be 1.6 billion years young, the galactic or open cluster of stars also shows its age. All the stars in the cluster were likely born at the same time, but the brighter and more massive ones have more rapidly exhausted the hydrogen fuel in their cores. These have evolved from main sequence stars like the Sun into the many red giant stars shown with a yellowish cast in this lovely color composite. Using measured color and brightness, astronomers can model the mass and hence the age of the cluster stars just starting to "turn off" the main sequence and become red giants. Over 50 light-years across, Caroline's Rose spans about half a degree (the angular size of the Moon) near the center of the wide-field telescopic image.