"Fernando Pessoa encontra D. Sebastião num caixão sobre um burro ajaizado à Andaluza"
1985. Oleo sobre tela. 157x154 (Pormenor)
2017-11-15
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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Astronomy picture of the day - 2017 November 15 - 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.
2017-11-14
Astronomy pictures of the day - 2017 November 14 - The Pleiades Deep and Dusty
Image Credit & Copyright: Juan Carlos Casado (TWAN, Earth & Stars), Miquel Serra-Ricart & Daniel Padron, FECYT
Explanation: The well-known Pleiades star cluster is slowly destroying part of a passing cloud of gas and dust. The Pleiades is the brightest open cluster of stars on Earth's sky and can be seen from almost any northerly location with the unaided eye. The passing young dust cloud is thought to be part of Gould's Belt, an unusual ring of young star formation surrounding the Sun in the local Milky Way Galaxy. Over the past 100,000 years, part of Gould's Belt is by chance moving right through the older Pleiades and is causing a strong reaction between stars and dust. Pressure from the stars' light significantly repels the dust in the surrounding blue reflection nebula, with smaller dust particles being repelled more strongly. A short-term result is that parts of the dust cloud have become filamentary and stratified. The featured deep image also captured Comet C/2015 ER61 (PanSTARRS) on the lower left.
2017-11-13
Florestas do Mundo - Reserva Florestal Sinharaja, Sri Lanka
A Sinharaja é uma das mais importantes florestas tropicais do Sri Lanka, que tem 88,64 km² e foi declarada pela UNESCO como uma reserva de biosfera em 1978. Ela conta com uma enorme quantidade de árvores endêmicas, é considerada o lar de animais como mamíferos, insetos raros, pássaros e borboletas e ainda abriga por lá outras espécies ameaçadas de extinção.
Astronomy picture of the day - 2017 November 13 - The Prague Astronomical Clock
Image Credit & License: Jorge Láscar
Explanation: In the center of Prague there's a clock the size of a building. During the day, crowds gather to watch the show when it chimes in a new hour. The Prague Astronomical Clock's face is impressively complex, giving not only the expected time with respect to the Sun (solar time), but the time relative to the stars (sidereal time), the times of sunrise and sunset at several latitudes including the equator, the phase of the Moon, and much more. The clock began operation in 1410, and even though much of its inner workings have been modernized several times, original parts remain. Below the clock is a nearly-equal sized solar calendar that rotates only once a year. Pictured, the Prague Astronomical Clock was photographed alone during an early morning in 2009 March. The Prague Astronomical Clock and the Old Town Tower behind it are currently being renovated once again, with the clock expected to be restarted in 2018 June.
2017-11-12
Imagenes del mundo - Surf en Nazaré, Portugal
El surfista francés Justine Dupont surfea una gran ola en Praia do Norte Nazare (Portugal).
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Imagenes del mundo - Carrera de Océanos
El francés Charles Caudrelier, patrón de carrera del barco Dongfeng, mientras observa el océano Atlántico durante su participación en la segunda etapa de la Carrera de Océanos de Volvo de Lisboa (Portugal) a Ciudad del Cabo (Sudáfrica).
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Astronomy picture of the day - 2017 November 12 - A Happy Sky over Los Angeles
Image Credit & Copyright: Dave Jurasevich (Mt. Wilson Observatory)
Explanation: Sometimes, the sky may seem to smile over much of planet Earth. On this day in 2008, visible the world over, was an unusual superposition of our Moon and the planets Venus and Jupiter. Pictures taken at the right timeshow a crescent Moon that appears to be a smile when paired with the planetary conjunction of seemingly nearby Jupiter and Venus. Pictured here is the scene as it appeared from Mt. Wilson Observatory overlooking Los Angeles,California, USA after sunset on 2008 November 30. Highest in the sky and farthest in the distance is the planet Jupiter. Significantly closer and visible to Jupiter's lower left is Venus, appearing through Earth's atmospheric clouds as unusually blue. On the far right, above the horizon, is our Moon, in a waxing crescent phase. Thin clouds illuminated by the Moon appear unusually orange. Sprawling across the bottom of the image are the hills of Los Angeles, many covered by a thin haze, while LA skyscrapers are visible on the far left. Hours after the taking of this image, the Moon approached the distant duo, briefly eclipsed Venus, and then moved on. This week, another conjunction of Venus and Jupiter is occurring and is visible to much of planet Earth to the east just before sunrise.
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