Tuesday, May 21, 2013

Ancient trading

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"Joakim Wehlin of the University of Gothenburg and Gotland University has examined Bronze Age stone monuments that sit along Sweden’s B...

Stone ship at Blomsholm

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The stone ship at Blomsholm near Strömstad in Bohuslän measures more than 40 metres in length and consists of 49 large menhirs . Th...

Lindholm Høje

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"Lindholm Høje (Lindholm Hills, from the word for hill or mound) is a major Viking burial site and former settlement situated to the ...
Monday, May 20, 2013

Anundshög

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Anundshög is a tumulus in Sweden . It has a diameter of 60 metres (200 ft) and is about 9 metres (30 ft) high, dated between ...
Saturday, May 18, 2013

Astrophile: Saturn's egg moon Methone is made of fluff - space - 17 May 2013 - New Scientist

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"Out among Saturn's menagerie of moons, a shiny white egg rests in a nest of ice crystals. Named Methone, this small, oval moon wa...
Thursday, May 16, 2013

Assembly line

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"The assembly line was invented 100 years ago. It’s time to invent the disassembly line", Steven Cherry is telling at  http://spec...

Deep Space Beacon

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Pulsed gamma rays from the Vela pulsar from photons detected by Fermi's Large Area Telescope. The Vela pulsar is the brightest per...
Saturday, May 11, 2013

Earth seen from Apollo

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Courtesy: NASA, Apollo 11

Bellissima!

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Courtesy: NASA Apollo 8

Sun reflection

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Courtesy: NASA Apollo 8 View of Earth as photographed by the Apollo 8 astronauts on their return trip from the moon. The terminator c...