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Cosmic Tree of Life 2.0, 546 million pixels, 32,400 x 16,872 x 300 dpi; a work in progress begun in 2002 Ferragallo used QFX digital tools drawing inspiration from science, astronomy and cosmology to present a cosmic art for a new age.
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This striking view of the central parts of the Milky Way was obtained with the VISTA survey telescope at ESO’s Paranal Observatory in Chile. This huge picture is 108 500 by 81 500 pixels and contains nearly nine billion pixels. It was created by combining thousands of individual images from VISTA, taken through three...
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From www.eso.org/public/images/eso1211a
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This new image, taken with the VLT Survey Telescope (VST) shows a wide variety of interacting galaxies in the young Hercules galaxy cluster. The sharpness of the picture and the sheer number of objec...-
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This room at the Herschel Museum of Astronomy contains an exhibiton themed on early female astronomers togther with information about the Herschels. William is well-known as the discoverer of Uranus and infra-red radiation. His sister Caroline was a comet hunter. Both were accomplished musicians and William performed a...
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This is the workshop of the astronomer William Herschel at the Herschel Museum of Astronomy in Bath. Not all of the exhibits are Herschel's but they are contemporary or facsimilies, so what we see here must be very close to what Herschel himself would have seen. There is a close-up of the workbench here: www
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n one of the most detailed astronomical images ever produced, NASA's Hubble Space Telescope captured an unprecedented look at the Orion Nebula. This turbulent star formation region is one of astronomy's most dramatic and photogenic celestial objects. More than 3,000 stars of various sizes appear in this image. Some of...
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Quillarumiyoc is an infrequently-visited sacred Inca site not far from Cusco. Here you will find caves with pre-Inca rock inscriptions, Inca aqueducts, Inca stone walls, and the amazing, enigmatic Quillarumiyoc stone: gigapan.com/gigapans/129662/snapshots/331642 If you look at this gigapan, taken around midda...
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This is the old Providence, Rhode Island time keeping station at Brown University's Ladd Observatory. The observatory was built in 1891 and is still in operation today as an astronomical observatory.
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This panorama was taken using the Gigapan camera from the observation deck of the Canada France Hawaii Telescope. Much thanks to Tom Benedict and CFHT for providing access.
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This is the music room at the Herschel Museum of Astronomy in Bath. Note the advertisement on the wall (also inset) The New Rooms were the Old Theatre Royal and are now the Freemasons' Temple. Handel himself attended this performance. I don't think Mrs. Harris will have been best-pleased! Images taken with the ...
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