Bairros de Lisboa - Alfama - Imagens

A capital portuguesa possui bairros emblemáticos e com características próprias. Alfama é o mais tradicional deles e, também, o mais antigo da cidade. A região está cheia de escadinhas e ruelas pitorescas, onde portinhas singelas podem esconder as melhores casas de fado do país.

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Astronomy picture of the day - 2018 February 16 - 2018 February 16

Comet PanSTARRS is near the Edge 
Image Credit & Copyright: JoAnn McDonald

Explanation: The comet PanSTARRS, also known as the blue comet (C/2016 R2), really is near the lower left edge of this stunning, wide field view recorded on January 13. Spanning nearly 20 degrees on the sky, the cosmic landscape is explored by well-exposed and processed frames from a sensitive digital camera. It consists of colorful clouds and dusty dark nebulae otherwise too faint for your eye to see, though. At top right, the California Nebula (aka NGC 1499) does have a familiar shape. Its coastline is over 60 light-years long and lies some 1,500 light-years away. The nebula's pronounced reddish glow is from hydrogen atoms ionized by luminous blue star Xi Persei just below it. Near bottom center, the famous Pleiades star cluster is some 400 light-years distant and around 15 light-years across. Its spectacular blue color is due to the reflection of starlight by interstellar dust. In between are hot stars of the Perseus OB2 association and dusty, dark nebulae along the edge of the nearby, massive Taurus and Perseus molecular clouds. Emission from unusually abundant ionized carbon monoxide (CO+) molecules fluorescing in sunlight is largely responsible for the telltale blue tint of the remarkable comet's tail. The comet was about 17 light minutes from Earth.

Astronomy picture of the day - 2018 February 15 - Enceladus in Silhouette

Enceladus in Silhouette 
Image Credit: Cassini Imaging Team, SSI, JPL, ESA, NASA

Explanation: One of our Solar System's most tantalizing worlds, Enceladus is backlit by the Sun in this Cassini spacecraft image from November 1, 2009. The dramatic illumination reveals the plumes that continuously spew into space from the south pole of Saturn's 500 kilometer diameter moon. Discovered by Cassini in 2005, the icy plumes are likely connected to an ocean beneath the ice shell of Enceladus. They supply material directly to Saturn's outer, tenuous E ring and make the surface of Enceladus as reflective as snow. Across the scene, Saturn's icy rings scatter sunlight toward Cassini's cameras. Beyond the rings, the night side of 80 kilometer diameter moon Pandora is faintly lit bySaturnlight.

Salvador Sobral - "Nem eu" - Video - Musica

"Nem eu"

Playing For Change - "Crazy" - Video - Music - Live

"Crazy"

Astronomy picture of the day - 2018 February 14 - In the Heart of the Heart Nebula

In the Heart of the Heart Nebula 
Credit & Copyright: Alan Erickson

Explanation: What's that inside the Heart Nebula? First, the large emission nebula dubbed IC 1805 looks, in whole, like a human heart. It's shape perhaps fitting of the Valentine's Day, this heart glows brightly in red light emitted by its most prominent element: hydrogen. The red glow and the larger shape are all created by a small group of stars near the nebula's center. In the heart of the Heart Nebula are young stars from the open star cluster Melotte 15 that are eroding away several picturesque dust pillars with their energetic light and winds. The open cluster of stars contains a few bright stars nearly 50 times the mass of our Sun, many dim stars only a fraction of the mass of our Sun, and anabsent microquasar that was expelled millions of years ago. The Heart Nebula is located about 7,500 light years away toward the constellation of the mythological Queen of Aethiopia (Cassiopeia).

Violência no Carnaval do Rio de Janeiro - Artigo

A violência no Rio de Janeiro tem tirado a alegria dos foliões que escolheram a Cidade Maravilhosa para brincar o carnaval. Com policiamento escasso, apesar da garantia do governador de reforço na segurança, criminosos têm agido livremente, sobretudo na Zona Sul.

No fim da madrugada desta segunda-feira , por exemplo, um grupo de turistas foi vítima de arrastão em frente a um dos hotéis mais luxuosos da cidade. Foi apenas mais um dos muitos casos registrados desde a sexta-feira.

“Eu quero ir embora. Me ajuda, moça, por favor. Vieram, tipo, 50 meninos... arrancaram minhas pulseiras”, contou, em tom de desespero, a turista brasiliense Luiza Eng momentos depois de ter sido assaltada na Avenida Vieira Souto, um dos endereços mais nobres da Zona Sul carioca.

Eram 5h quando Luiza e um grupo de amigos foram cercados por marginais em frente ao Hotel Fasano. 

A lembrança do carnaval no Rio para o turista espanhol Nicolas Ctambolsky também vai ser de uma noite de medo.

“Na verdade, a gente só quer voltar para casa e pedir um número para voltar pra casa pra não ser assaltado de novo”, contou o espanhol. Ele foi roubado e agredido por bandidos no mesmo ponto de Ipanema.

As vítimas disseram que os roubos em série, praticados por grandes grupos de criminosos, têm acontecido na altura do Posto 8 de Ipanema. Na maioria dos assaltos, os bandidos levam os celulares e correm para a areia.

Na delegacia do Leblon, diversas pessoas assaltadas em Ipanema tentavam registrar as ocorrências de roubo.

O Globo - Brasil

Astronomy picture of the day - 2018 February 13 - Car Orbiting Earth

Car Orbiting Earth 
Credit: SpaceX

Explanation: Last week, a car orbited the Earth. The car, created by humans and robots on the Earth, was launched by the SpaceX Company to demonstrate the ability of its Falcon Heavy Rocket to place spacecraft out in the Solar System. Purposely fashioned to be whimsical, the iconic car was thought a better demonstration object than concrete blocks. A mannequin clad in a spacesuit -- dubbed the Starman -- sits in the driver's seat. The featured image is a frame from a video taken by one of three cameras mounted on the car. These cameras, connected to the car's battery, are now out of power. The car, attached to a second stage booster, soon left Earth orbit and will orbit the Sunbetween Earth and the asteroid belt indefinitely -- perhaps until billions of years from now when our Sun expands into a Red Giant. If ever recovered, what's left of the car may become a unique window into technologies developed on Earth in the 20th and early 21st centuries.

Saul Leiter - "Postmen" - Fotografia

"Postmen", 1952

Foto - Trinidad, Cuba

Trinidad, Cuba

02-11-2010

JoanMira