Being informed about Absalom’s death, which has been killed by Joab and has been found hanging on the tree in the forest, David gives vent to his grief (Samuel II, XIX, 1-4), 1956, Marc Chagall
Size: 32.5x22.4 cm Medium: etching on paper
Madonna with the Sleigh, 1947, Marc Chagall
Size: 97x80 cm Medium: oil on canvas
NGC 6888, also known as the Crescent Nebula, is a cosmic bubble about 25 light-years across, blown by winds from its central, bright, massive star. This sharp telescopic portrait uses narrow band image data that isolates light from hydrogen and oxygen atoms in the wind-blown nebula. The oxygen atoms produce the blue-green hue that seems to enshroud the detailed folds and filaments. Visible within the nebula, NGC 6888’s central star is classified as a Wolf-Rayet star (WR 136). The star is shedding its outer envelope in a strong stellar wind, ejecting the equivalent of the Sun’s mass every 10,000 years. The nebula’s complex structures are likely the result of this strong wind interacting with material ejected in an earlier phase. Burning fuel at a prodigious rate and near the end of its stellar life this star should ultimately go out with a bang in a spectacular supernova explosion. Found in the nebula rich constellation Cygnus, NGC 6888 is about 5,000 light-years away.
Image Credit: Michael Miller & Jimmy Walker
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Storm on the north pole of Saturn, taken by NASA’s Cassini spacecraft
Image credit: NASA/JPL/Cassini
Landscape with a pond, 1921, Ilya Mashkov
Medium: oil on canvas
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