Palacios cariocas - Palácio Laranjeiras

Localizado no bairro de Laranjeiras, a dois quarteirões do Palácio Guanabara, esse palácio foi construído em 1913 para ser residência da Família Guinle.

Em 1947 o Presidente Dutra adquiriu o palacete para destiná-lo a hospedagem de visitantes ilustres e chefes de estado em visita ao Brasil, entre 1956 e 1961 foi a residência oficial da presidência, no governo Juscelino Kubitschek.

Hoje em dia é a residência oficial do governador do estado do Rio de Janeiro.

Imagenes del Mundo - Ipanema, Brasil

Varias personas disfrutan de la playa de Ipanema (Brasil), en día que Río de Janeiro registró la temperatura más alta del año con una máxima de 42,3 grados centígrados y una sensación térmica que rozó los 50 en la zona oeste de la ciudad.

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Imagenes del Mundo - Glastonbury Tor (Inglaterra).

Campos helados rodeados de niebla en Glastonbury Tor (Inglaterra).

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Pintores abstractos - Jackson Pollock - Untitled ( Naked Man with Knife)

Jackson Pollock, né le 28 janvier 1912 à Cody dans le Wyoming et mort le 11 août 1956, à Springs dans l'État de New York, est un peintre américain de l'expressionnisme abstrait, mondialement connu de son vivant. Wikipédia

Untitled ( Naked Man with Knife) 1938-

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Astronomy picture of the day - 2016 December 29 - Shell Game in the LMC

Shell Game in the LMC 
Image Credit & Copyright: John Gleason

Explanation: An alluring sight in southern skies, the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC) is seen here through narrowband filters. The filters are designed to transmit only light emitted by ionized sulfur, hydrogen, and oxygen atoms. Ionized by energetic starlight, the atoms emit their characteristic light as electrons are recaptured and the atom transitions to a lower energy state. As a result, this false color image of the LMC seems covered with shell-shaped clouds of ionized gas surrounding massive, young stars. Sculpted by the strong stellar winds and ultraviolet radiation, the glowing clouds, dominated by emission from hydrogen, are known as H II (ionized hydrogen) regions. Itself composed of many overlapping shells, the Tarantula Nebula is the large star forming region at top center. A satellite of our Milky Way Galaxy, the LMC is about 15,000 light-years across and lies a mere 180,000 light-years away in the constellationDorado.

Palácios cariocas - Palácio Universitário

No Palácio Universitário, localizado na Praia Vermelha, está a Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ), também chamada de Universidade do Brasil, a maior universidade federal do país.

O prédio fora construído em 1842, em estilo neoclássico, para ser um hospício, o Hospício de Pedro II, que funcionou entre 1852 e 1944. Em 1949 foi reinaugurado pelo Presidente Eurico Gaspar Dutra para ser a sede da reitoria da Universidade do Brasil.

Astronomy picture of the day - 2016 December 28 - Curiosity Surveys Lower Mount Sharp on Mars

Curiosity Surveys Lower Mount Sharp on Mars 
Image Credit: NASA, JPL-Caltech, MSSS;

Explanation: If you could stand on Mars -- what might you see? If you were the Curiosity rover, then just last month you would have contemplated the featured image -- a breathtaking panorama of the lower portion of Mount Sharp. The colors have been adjusted to mimic lighting familiar to Earthlings. Surveyed here was a rocky plain before increasingly high rolling hills. The rounded hills in the middle distance, called the Sulfate Unit, are Curiosity's highest currently planned destination. One reason these hills are interesting is because sulfates are an energy source for some micro-organisms. The immediate path forward, though, was toward the southeast on the left part of the image.

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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.