City night life
Image by Joe Doe 2010
Original image was a wallpaper on my hard drive, I made it into a polarized panorama
Space - Helix nebula
Image by Trodel
This infrared image from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope shows the Helix nebula, a cosmic starlet often photographed by amateur astronomers for its vivid colors and eerie resemblance to a giant eye.
The nebula, located about 700 light-years away in the constellation Aquarius, belongs to a class of objects called planetary nebulae. Discovered in the 18th century, these cosmic butterflies were named for their resemblance to gas-giant planets.
Planetary nebulae are actually the remains of stars that once looked a lot like our sun.
When sun-like stars die, they puff out their outer gaseous layers. These layers are heated by the hot core of the dead star, called a white dwarf, and shine with infrared and visible-light colors. Our own sun will blossom into a planetary nebula when it dies in about five billion years.
In Spitzer's infrared view of the Helix nebula, the eye looks more like that of a green monster's. Infrared light from the outer gaseous layers is represented in blues and greens. The white dwarf is visible as a tiny white dot in the center of the picture. The red color in the middle of the eye denotes the final layers of gas blown out when the star died.
The brighter red circle in the very center is the glow of a dusty disk circling the white dwarf (the disk itself is too small to be resolved). This dust, discovered by Spitzer's infrared heat-seeking vision, was most likely kicked up by comets that survived the death of their star. Before the star died, its comets and possibly planets would have orbited the star in an orderly fashion. But when the star blew off its outer layers, the icy bodies and outer planets would have been tossed about and into each other, resulting in an ongoing cosmic dust storm. Any inner planets in the system would have burned up or been swallowed as their dying star expanded.
The Helix nebula is one of only a few dead-star systems in which evidence for comet survivors has been found.
This image is made up of data from Spitzer's infrared array camera and multiband imaging photometer. Blue shows infrared light of 3.6 to 4.5 microns; green shows infrared light of 5.8 to 8 microns; and red shows infrared light of 24 microns.
Picture by NASA
Candidate in Picture of the Year 2007.
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Original at http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:169141main_piaa09178.jpg
Texturas bajo el agua...
Image by Diego CHn.
ORIGINAL SIZE: farm4.staticflickr.com/3122/2711340151_7498e10d33_o.jpg
If you use it, please tell me :D Si lo usan avísenme.
Dedicada al buen amigo y maestro: don Sam estoy seguro que el algún día le dará un uso extraordinario abrazos hermano... Hacía ratopor cierto, que no había subido una foto sin edición, pero esto lo amerita...
Gracias Especiales a mi hermanito Juanelo a quien en realidad debería pertenecer esta foto el único error, lo tomó con mi cámara :P abrazos carnalillo, visiten su espacio está empezando y tiene una que otra cosilla que podría ser interesante ;) www.flickr.com/photos/28818920@N05/
Canción: Mi unicornio Azul; Silvio Rodríguez
Gracias también a una fundita que le compré para fotos abajo del agua :O DICAPAC ;)
EXCELENTE pero PERFECTA para wallpapers lo juro, perfect for a wallpaper...
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Image by mikepetrucci
Desktop Thursday on Scrap Paper Blog. Original image here: www.flickr.com/photos/soldiersmediacenter/478398874/
Descanso Eterno (Praga)
Image by Lady Pain (Marta Manso)
Es una imagen a partir de una foto que saqué del nuevo cementerio judío, donde está enterrado Franz Kafka. Esto ya es otra cosa... uno de esos sitios en los que te gustaría que te enterraran, no como aquí, que todo es piedra, mármol y granito. Tan triste que sólo entrar te apena. Aquí al menos te hacía pensar en la Belleza del entorno, en la grandiosidad de la Naturaleza, en las cosas hermosas de la Vida.
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Fotógrafa: Lady Pain.
Retoque: Lady Pain.
Foto original: Cementerio judío de Praga.
Licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 2.5 license.
Let me now if you reproduce the image ^_^
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