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Photographs November 2014

Posted on Friday, 14 November, 2014Sunday, 20 August, 2017 by Zheluo Cai

Natural History Museum marks five decades of the Wildlife Photographer of the Year competition, celebrating the art of wildlife photography. Started in the 1960s, the 160 prize-winning and commended images represent different times, styles and specialisms – showcasing some of the iconic images of wildlife on planet Earth.

Some of these are at the Photography Gallery, each with a location and the photographer’s name.

Environnement Wildlife Photographer of the Year Bubble-jetting emperors

Napoleon Wrasse Great Barrier Reef Christian Miller

Oil Victims Brown Pelicans Daniel Beltra

Credits: The Guardian, Natural History Museum.

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The Whirlpool Galaxy in Infrared Dust.
Credit: Infrared: NASA, ESA, M. Regan & B. Whitmore (STScI), & R. Chandar (U. Toledo);
Optical: NASA, ESA, S. Beckwith (STScI), & the Hubble Heritage Team (STScI/AURA). How do spiral galaxies form stars? The Hubble Space Telescope imaged the nearby spiral M51 in infrared light to highlight the dust that traces the dense gas that best forms stars. To further isolate the dust, much of the optical light from stars has also been digitally removed. The resulting image shows swirling and intricate patterns on the longest scales, while numerous bright clumps of previously hidden open star clusters appear on the smaller scales. The Whirlpool Galaxy is toward the constellation of the Hunting Dogs (Canes Venatici). It lies about 30 million light-years away, while the above-imaged area spans about 15,000 light years from top to bottom. Astronomers speculate that M51's spiral structure is primarily due to its gravitational interaction with a neighbouring smaller galaxy.

The Blackfoot Indians were a nation of American Indians with four distinctive tribes, one in Montana and the other in Alberta, Canada. Fierce buffalo hunters, this nomadic tribe followed their food source. With no experience in pottery, crafts or agriculture, they relied on the land. While natural food sources and small subsidized, the buffalo were their main source of food, clothing, shelter, tools and weapons. Today the surviving heirs still live on much of the Montana land they had long ago.

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