archimeda - born of dreams-inspired by freedom

"The primary merit for the picture is to be a feast for the eyes." Delacroix “Design is not just what it looks like and feels like. Design is how it works.” - Steve Jobs "Imagination is more important than knowledge. For knowledge is limited to all we now know and understand, while imagination embraces the entire world, and all there ever will be to know and understand." –Dr. Albert Einstein "Wonder is comes from the awareness of ignorance of religious mass"

2011. november 4., péntek

Lining Up Future Discoveries

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This rainbow of colors is actually a powerful astronomical tool: the spectrum of the star Arcturus. Astronomers created the image by splitting the star's light into its individual wavelength or colors. What makes the spectrum so powerful is the series of dark lines across the bands of color. These lines are produced by chemical elements in the star's upper atmosphere. They reveal the star's composition, rotation rate, motion through space, and much more. Two scientists discovered this trick of starlight 150 years ago. [N.A.Sharp/NOAO/AURA/NSF]

archimeda - born of dreams-inspired by freedom

2011. november 4., péntek

Lining Up Future Discoveries

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