Aesthetics of a tower
Control Tower at the Oslo Airport - Gardermoen
I love flying! There is something magical about flying in an aircraft. Yes, I know all the physics like Bernoulli’s principle and all that – but still if the physics is such and such – and my brain understands how an airflow works on an airplane wing, meteorology, procedures during the flight etc., the process of flying is nevertheless wonderfully magical.
I regard the crew on the ground with just as much respect as the men and women that take us on the journey along the airways. Thus I find airport control towers fascinating. The picture here shows the tower at the main airport in Norway – Gardermoen just North of Oslo – taken a couple of weeks ago. I guess what I find appealing about airport control towers is that they often combine aesthetics with functionality.
Bernoulli’s principle
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The “Hand of God”
It looks like outstretched fingers. This extraordinary photo was taken by the NASA’s Chandra Observatory. The “fingers” we see in the picture were created by a spinning neutron star known as a pulsar buried deep inside the fist, which releases energy as it rotates. Although the pulsar itself is only 12 miles in diameter, the cloud or nebula that it produces stretches across 150 light years of space.
This is an X-ray image. It was recorded by NASA’s Chandra Observatory which is circling 580.000 kilometers above the Earth taking images of high-energy locations across the universe, such as the remnants of exploded stars.
Neutron stars are created when standard stars run out of fuel and collapse, and NASA believes that the one pictured IN “The Hand of God” is rotating around seven times a second! The golden-red lights in the image are actually part of a neighbouring gas cloud, which has been energised by the wind of electrons and ions being spewed out from the pulsar. The colours of the image represent different energy intensities – the blue lights are the areas of highest energy X-rays, followed by green and then red.
Isn’t Nature just wonderful!?
Source: NASA, Wikimedia, Telegraph.co.uk
Hand of God - a pulsar and a nebula. Captured by NASA's Chandra Observatory circling 580.000 kilometers above the Earth
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