Sunspot 1112
Credit: Solar Dynamics Observatory/Goddard Space Flight Center.
An extremely large filamentary structure, a 400,000 kilometer long prominence emerges from the Sun. Electric star theory presupposes such formations.
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Cheyenne River Sioux Tribal Park, South Dakota
Photograph by Jack Dykinga, National Geographic
"A glacial remnant boulder is surrounded by grassland in Cheyenne River Sioux Tribal Park in South Dakota. A growing number of tribes across the United States are making moves to bring back land crushed over generations of human use."
See more pictures from the August 2010 feature story "Native Lands".
Gulf Oil Spill: One Year Later
"In April of 2010, the Deepwater Horizon oil well was struck with disaster. An explosion sank the entire platform and resulted in the worst oil spill in American history."
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Christ Carrying the Cross
Hieronymus Bosch. Christ Carrying the Cross. 1490(?). Oil on panel. Musée des Beaux-Arts, Ghent, Belgium.
"Bosch's belief in the pervasive evil of the world colored his paintings of more conventional religious subjects; the stories of Christ and the saints became images of torment by demons or mobs of mocking humans. Typical of these interpretations are the numerous images from Christ's passion, such as the half-length Crowning with Thorns, or Christ Being Shown to the People (c.1485; National Gallery, London). A representative image of this type is the view, also half-length, of Christ Carrying the Cross (c.1490; Museum of Fine Arts, Ghent), in which a crowd of grotesque faces seems to swallow up the face of the suffering Christ."
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The Amazing Australian Peacock Spider
Image Credit Flickr User Jurgen Otto
Australia is home to many strange and unusual animals, something the majority of us know. When asked, most people would say that it is the marsupials of the country that are the most significantly different to the rest of the world. Perhaps that assumption should be questioned – Australia is also home to the tiny Peacock Spider, whose behaviour and appearance is nothing short of startling.
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