Tuesday, 17 July, 2018

Photographs August 2016 1

Posted on Monday, 1 August, 2016Monday, 21 August, 2017 by Zheluo Cai

Photographs August 2016 1.

Book of Hours by Vante di Gabriello di Vante Attavanti Fitzwilliam Museum The Guardian

The Frontline Aleppo Hosam Katan Reuters

Hummingbird Colombia Jaime Saldarriaga Reuters

Newly Constructed Sandy Hook Elementary School Newtown Michelle McLoughlin Reuters

Vestrahorn Iceland Fabrizio Fortuna NatGeo

Luke Aikins Jumps 25000 feet into Net Without Parachute Jae C. Hong AP

Gower the Great Dane Tallest Dog in the World Gower Wales Matthew Horwood Wales News Service

M8 Lagoon Nebula Ivan Eder Astronomy Photographer of the Year 2016 National Maritime Museum

The Armada Portrait of Queen Elizabeth I circa 1590 Repurchased by the Hertage LotteryFund Royal Museum UK

Crane Serengeti Cary Wolinsky & Bob Caputo NatGeo

Credits: The BBC, The Guardian, National Geographic, Reuters, The Telegraph.

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Neutrino Associated with Distant Blazar Jet.
Illustration Credit: DESY, Science Communication Lab. With equipment frozen deep into ice beneath Earth's South Pole, humanity appears to have discovered a neutrino from far across the universe. If confirmed, this would mark the first clear detection of cosmologically-distant neutrinos and the dawn of an observed association between energetic neutrinos and cosmic rays created by powerful jets emanating from blazing quasars (blazars). Once the Antarctican IceCube detector measured an energetic neutrino in 2017 September, many of humanity's premier observatories sprang into action to try to identify a counterpart in light. And they did. An erupting counterpart was pinpointed by high energy observatories including AGILE, Fermi, HAWC, H.E.S.S., INTEGRAL, NuSTAR, Swift, and VERITAS, which found that gamma-ray blazar TXS 0506+056 was in the right direction and with gamma-rays from a flare arriving nearly coincidental in time with the neutrino. Even though this and other position and time coincidences are statistically strong, astronomers will await other similar neutrinos - blazar light associations to be absolutely sure. Pictured here is an artist's drawing of a particle jet emanating from a black hole at the centre of a blazar.

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