Showing posts with label insight. Show all posts
Showing posts with label insight. Show all posts

Tuesday, July 14, 2015

Close encounter on Pluto


Near-true-color image of Pluto taken by New Horizons spacecraft on 13 July 2015. On 14 July 2015, the New Horizons spacecraft became the first spacecraft to flyby Pluto. During its brief flyby, New Horizons made detailed measurements and observations of Pluto and its moons.

Pluto was discovered in 1930 by Clyde Tombaugh, and was originally considered the ninth planet from the Sun. After 1992, its status as a planet fell into question following the discovery of several objects of similar size in the Kuiper belt. In 2005, Eris, which is 27% more massive than Pluto, was discovered, which led the International Astronomical Union (IAU) to define the term "planet" formally for the first time the following year. This definition excluded Pluto and reclassified it as a member of the new "dwarf planet" category (and specifically as a plutoid). Some astronomers believe Pluto should still be considered a planet. (read more)

Sunday, April 26, 2015

death by cannon


Counter-protester with her daughters at a civil liberties rally by black people, Bogalusa, Louisiana, 1965


Toffs and Toughs – The famous photo by Jimmy Sime that illustrates the class divide in pre-war Britain, 1937


The last commercial sailing ship, Pamir, to round Cape Horn in 1949


Searchlights on the Rock of Gibraltar, 1942


James Dean posing in the coffin in the local undertaker in his home town in the year of his car crash and ensuing death, January 1955


Major General Horatio Gordon Robley with his collection of tattooed Maori heads, 1895


Japanese guards bow before US prisoners of war being released from a Yokohama detention center following the capitulation of Japan, 1945


Iranian woman before the Islamic Revolution, 1960


Georges Blind, a Member of the French Resistance, Smiling at a German Firing Squad, October 1944


Fidel Castro plays baseball in Havana, 1959


Execution by cannon, in Shiraz, Iran, mid-late 19th century

Wednesday, November 26, 2014

Friday, June 6, 2014