Beautiful 'Impossible' View of Milky Way from Light-Polluted Singapore

An avid night sky photographer proves the naysayers wrong with this "impossible" single-exposure image and video of the Milky Way and bright planet Venus rising over the light-polluted skies of Singapore. "My dream to capture the beautiful Milky Way galaxy in Singapore has finally come true this morning after the monsoon season is over," night sky photographer Justin Ng told Space.com in an email. He captured this single-exposure shot on Feb. 28, 2014 at 6:11 a.m. local time. "Singapore is known for its heavy light pollution and many people believe that it's impossible to shoot stars and Milky Way in Singapore." Dense...

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Beautiful Spoonbridge and Cherry Garden

   Spoonbridge and Cherry was commissioned for the Walker Art Center in 1985. The work was installed in the Minneapolis Sculpture Garden in 1988. This work is one of two fountain sculptures created by Oldenburg and his wife, Coosje van Bruggen. The other work, Dropped Bowl with Scattered Slices and Peels, is installed in Miami, Florida. For the Minneapolis Sculpture Garden, the two artists considered a design connecting Minnesota's Native American or Scandinavian heritages by creating a Viking ship prow or canoe pulled up on the shore of ...

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Amazing Narcisse Snake Pits In Manitoba, Canada

The Narcisse Snake Pits are located 6 km north of the rural settlement of Narcisse in the province of Manitoba in Canada. These pits harbour the largest concentration of Red-sided Garter Snakes in the world. During winter, the snakes hibernate inside subterranean caverns formed by the area's water-worn limestone bedrock. Shortly after the snow melts in late April and early May, tens of thousands of these snakes slip out of their limestone dens and hang out on the surface of the ground performing their mating rituals in great tangled heaps. The male snakes are usually the first to awaken from the long winter hibernation and reach the surface...

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Gateshead Millennium Bridge: World’s Only Tilting Bridge

  The Gateshead Millennium Bridge is a pedestrian and cyclist bridge spanning River Tyne in England between Gateshead's Quays arts quarter on the south bank, and the Quayside of Newcastle on the north bank. The bridge is essentially two graceful curves, one forming the deck and the other supporting it, spanning between the two islands running parallel to the quaysides. To allow ships to pass underneath, this whole assembly rotates as a single, rigid structure. As the arch tilts lower, the pathway rises, each counterbalancing the other, and a pathway over the river is formed. The parabolic curves of the deck extend the 105m crossing distance...

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Pygmy Marmoset, Monyet Terkecil Di Dunia

Pygmy Marmoset adalah permata kecil asli dari hutan hujan Amazon Basin barat di Amerika Selatan. Beratnya hanya 100 gram, monyet kecil kerdil ini dikenal sebagai spesies yang terkecil dari monyet di dunia. Tinggi rata-rata sekitar 15cm  dengan ekor panjangnya 20cm belakangnya.  Monyet kecil ini memiliki cakar yang tajam yang dapat memanjat pohon dengan sangat baik dan ekor panjang monyet kecil kerdil ini memberikan  keseimbangan fantastis ketika melompat antara cabang-cabang pohon. Berat rendah dari monyet kecil kerdil memungkinkan monyet kecil kerdil untuk mencapai puncak pohon kanopi, tempat di mana banyak spesies yang lebih...

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