Friday, 14 December, 2018

Photographs August 2018 1

Posted on Monday, 6 August, 2018 by Zheluo Cai

Salad Burnet West Yorkshire UK Ian Gil mour International Garden Photographer of the Year 2018 The Guardian

World’s Largest Monastery Library Stiftsbibliothek Admont Austria Massimo Listri Taschen The Guardian

Hor-Air Ballooning Cappadocia Turkey Kiera Cavanagh Readers’ Travel Photography Competition The Guardian

Morning Light Man Mo Temple Hong Kong Nathaniel Jones Readers’ Travel Photography Competition The Guardian

Retail Outlet Hanoi Vietnam Ian Webb Readers’ Travel Photography Competition The Guardian

Strahovska Knihovna Prague Czech Republic Massimo Listri Taschen The Guardian

Unfurling Kings Canyon National Park USA Ashley Moore International Photographer of the Year 2018 The Guardian

Switzerland’s Oldest Library Stiftsbibliothek Sankt Gallen St Gallen Massimo Listri Taschen The Guardian

Pancake Sea Ice Off Svalbard Norway Kellie Netherwood Readers’ Travel Photography Competition The Guardian

Real Gabinete Portugues de Leitura Rio de Janeiro Brazil Massimo Listri Taschen The Guardian

Credits: The Guardian, International Photographer of the Year 2018, Readers’ Travel Photography Competition, Taschen.

Methuselah Nebula MWP1.
Credit & Copyright: Don Goldman. The symmetric planetary nebula catalogued as MWP1 lies 4,500 light-years away in the northern constellation Cygnus the Swan. One of the largest planetary nebulae known, it spans about 15 light-years. Based on its expansion rate the nebula has an age of 150 thousand years, a cosmic blink of an eye in the 10 billion year life of a sun-like star. But planetary nebulae represent a very brief final phase in stellar evolution, as the nebula's central star shrugs off its outer layers to become a hot white dwarf. In fact, planetary nebulae ordinarily only last for 10 to 20 thousand years.

Azerbaijan - Level 2: Exercise Increased Caution Thursday, 13 December, 2018
Exercise increased caution in Azerbaijan due to the risk of terrorism. Some areas have increased risk. Read the entire Travel Advisory. Terrorist groups continue plotting possible attacks in Azerbaijan. Terrorists may attack with little or no warning, targeting tourist locations, transportation hubs, markets/shopping malls, local government facilities, hotels, clubs, restaurants, places of worship, parks, major sporting […]

Sunflowers (Tournesols) is the name of two series of still life paintings by the Dutch painter Vincent van Gogh. The first series, executed in Paris in 1887, depicts the flowers lying on the ground, while the second set, executed a year later in Arles, shows a bouquet of sunflowers in a vase. In the artist's mind, both sets were linked by the name of his friend Paul Gauguin, who acquired two of the Paris versions. On March 30, 1987, Japanese insurance magnate, Yasuo Goto, paid the equivalent of US $39,921,750 for van Gogh's Still Life: Vase with Fifteen Sunflowers at auction at Christie's London. The painting currently resides at Seiji Togo Yasuda Memorial Museum of Modern Art in Tokyo.

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