Friday 20 April 2018
Joseph Nicephore - The man who drew with light
In 1827 a Frenchman by the name of Joseph Nicephore, was playing around with a technique called holography. He conducted an experiment which involved pointing a camera out of a window, positioning it so that the lens would cast an image onto a pewter plate, coated with a light sensitive filament. Eight hours later the image above was created and is believed to be the oldest known surviving photograph.
Joesph Nicephore Niece, the first man to draw with light.
Tuesday 24 October 2017
The Triple Star System, Gliese 667.
Sunday 22 October 2017
Statue of David by Michelangelo.
King David is regarded in biblical texts as a humble, honest and dedicated king whilst serving the needs and will of the people he ruled over at the time. Davids father Jesse was a farmer and lived in Bethlehem, he was of the tribe of Judah and his family are belived to have stemmed from the genology of Jesus Christ. Jesse had eight sons including David. In Biblical texts it is thought that the prophet Samuel was sent by God to find the next King of Isreal. The prophet presented each of Jesse's sons to God until God asked the prophet Samuel to annoint David, King over Isreal.
Hebrew prophets regarded him as the ancestor of the future messiah and according to the new testament he was the ancestor of Jesus. As Biblical texts go, the basic story of David goes that David was handed into the hands of King Saul ( King of Isreal ) to protect and take care of the King as one of his royal armour bearers. One of the most recognised stories about David is the story of David and Goliath, which tells us of a time when the Philistines and the Isrealites came to war with each other. The giant known as Goliath from the Philistines, challanged the Isrealites to send out their most decorated champion to fight him in a head to head battle. David stepped forward and killed Goliath with no more than a slingshot and a few stones.
The marble sculpture was created between 1501 and 1504 by the Italian sculptor, painter, architect, and poet Michelangelo. This masterpiece stands around 17ft tall, located at the Galleria dell'Accademia ( Gallery of the Academy of Florence ) in Florence, Italy.
Sunday 15 October 2017
The Majestic Moon's of Jupiter.
Image of Jupiter and two of its largest moons.
Jupiter's largest moon's Io and Europa were first discovered by Galileo Galilei whilst he was making observations of the night sky with his own personal telescope in 1610. The mythological character Zeus was another representation of the planet Jupiter, therefore Galileo named the two moon's of Jupiter after two lovers of Zeus, Io and Europa. Galileo recognised that not all celestial bodies orbited the Earth, this realisation would change the course of history forever. At the time of his discovery most astronomers believed that the Earth was at the centre of the Universe, now atronomers had to consider that Earth was simply apart of a much bigger Universe than previously thought. 400 Years later we have discovered 69 moons that orbit Jupiter with the use of Space Probes like the one that captured this stunning image.
The image was captured by Nasa's JUNO Space Probe on September 1st 2017.
Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/SwRI/MSSS/Roman Tkachenko.
Link to image.
Tuesday 28 March 2017
Pillars of Ashoka
The pillars of Ashoka are a collection of pillars dispersed throughout the Indian subcontinent, during Emperor Ashoka's reign of the Mauryan Empire.
The Emperor had inscriptions carved into the pillars, containing information about the Emperor's beliefs and ideas towards the teachings and philosophies of Buddhism. The pillars stand roughly 15 meters in height and weigh about 50 tons each. These pillars where then sent to areas like Pakistan, Nepal, Afghanistan and Bangladesh. The pillar shown in the image is believed to be one of 30 sandstone pillars inscribed with a Buddhists based moral code. The four lion pillar was constructed by Emperor Ashoka. The lion figure has since become the Republic of India's modern national emblem.
Friday 17 March 2017
VY Canis Majoris.
Saturday 11 March 2017
Mystic Mountain
The Mystic Mountain is vast area located roughly, 7,700 light years away from Earth in the Carina Nebula. The mountain is a stellar nursery, home to newly born stars, reaching a peak of around 3 light years (17,670,000,000 000 miles) in height. The stars surrounding and forming within the cloud, gives of huge amounts of heat and radiation, which ionizes the surrounding gases, causing them to glow. The image above was captured by Wide Field Camera 3 on the Hubble Space Telescope.
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